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Children's Services

Enhancing Trauma Awareness

Seating is limited in this 15-hour intensive course that provides a rich and sophisticated exploration of the subject of trauma. Meeting every other week for 2.5 hours per session (6 sessions total), professionals are encouraged to become highly sensitive regarding the nature of trauma.

Participants will increase awareness and respect with regard to trauma-related behaviors and the consequences of being impacted by trauma that can extend into relationships, systems, and across generations.

Topics include:

  • Personal Self-Care Plans
  • Three-Part Diagram
  • Kinds of Trauma
  • Trauma Continuums
  • Essential Brain Parts & Brain States
  • Adverse Childhood Experiences Study
  • Neurobiology of Toxic Stress
  • Epigenetics
  • Trauma Vortex
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders
  • Grief and Trauma
  • Memory and Trauma Triggers
  • Risk & Protective Factors
  • Vicarious & Secondary Traumatization
  • Compassion Fatigue

Four cohorts will be facilitated live by two LGI trainers utilizing a web-based platform. Three cohorts will meet in-person in Philadelphia.

Visit here to view dates and times for each option.

Scholarships valued at $1,000 per person have been provided by generous funders. Participants are required to purchase two additional texts for reading and discussion throughout the course (estimated at $70). Once registered, additional details will be provided to participants so they can order these texts prior to the first session of the course. Visit here to reserve a seat today!

The Office of Children, Youth, & Families (OCYF) has released the 2021 Pennsylvania Annual Child Abuse report. The report may be accessed here as well as through the Child Abuse Reports Page.

While the report continues to provide detailed data for statewide and individual county responses to reports, for the first time, race and ethnicity data was added for substantiated victims and perpetrators. OCYF in its reporting process will continue to refine this information for future reports and have only presented statewide data and not county by county statistics to avoid providing individually identifiable information.

If you have any questions, please contact RCPA Children’s Policy Director Jim Sharp.

RCPA staff and the Conference Committee are gearing up for our long-awaited in-person conference to be held in Hershey, PA, October 11 – 14, 2022! Registration is now open; details on workshops, networking, and more are all available here.

We would also like to thank some of our early sponsors. Thank you for showing your support of our 2022 Conference!

We have additional sponsorship opportunities available and invite you to contact Carol Ferenz or Sarah Eyster for more information. We look forward to seeing you all Together this October!

Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
Miranda Brazinski
570-709-4655

July 26, 2022 (PITTSBURGH, PA) — Mainstay Life Services, a nonprofit organization that provides life-long, high-quality support services for people with intellectual disabilities and autism, hosted its 15th Annual Charlie Ross Memorial Charity Golf Outing on June 27, 2022, at the Club at Nevillewood in Presto, Pennsylvania.

The event, which raises funds to help the people supported by Mainstay to live their best life, featured a field of 138 golfers and raised a record-breaking $172,395. Numerous sponsors contributed to this year’s success, including Hefren-Tillotson: The ERA Group / Baird, enkompas Technology Solutions, UPMC Health Plan, BBL Fleet, Microsoft, and Neishloss & Fleming, LLC.

View the 2022 Golf Outing Digital Program Book and photo gallery.

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About Mainstay Life Services

Mainstay Life Services is a nonprofit organization providing residential services, community services, and other supports to people with intellectual disabilities and autism and their families throughout Southwestern Pennsylvania. We are committed to assisting the people we support to reach their fullest potential within their community.