Online Program
Shining Light on Youth Emotional Wellness
Overview:
Speakers from Minding Your MInd (MindingYourMind.org) Sarika Argarwal and Linda Price, discuss Youth emotional health. They talk about depression and anxiety, hope and resilience and strategies school nurses can use with our students.
Contact hours: 1.5 Cost: $30 Length: 90 minutes
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Cost: $ 30.00
Contact Hours 1.5
Objectives:
After viewing the presentation, the viewer should be able to:
1. Identify uplifting approaches to identifying and addressing the needs of K-12 students.
2. Describe the resilient spirit of youth with their experiences with anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts, and trauma, even when these struggles may not be immediately apparent.
3. Identify tools to recognize harmful coping mechanisms and supportive interventions.
Presenter:
Sarika Agarwal, BA is a young adult mental health speaker and advocate who works with Minding Your Mind, a mental health education and suicide prevention foundation. Her story offers a vulnerable snapshot of her journey with major depression and anxiety and how she sought approval from others to validate herself. Sarika hopes to inspire others to accept themselves for who they are and to appreciate each and every quality they possess, regardless of social norms. Learn more about Sarika at www.mindingyourmind.org.
Linda Price, MEd, CAGS, LEP, E-RYT As a Licensed Educational Psychologist, Linda provides individual and group counseling, social emotional learning groups, and parent consultation and workshops through her private practice, Wellness Empowerment in Scituate, MA. She specializes in working with youth coping with ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorders, anxiety, social and executive function struggles, and learning differences. Linda earned her Masters of Education Degree in School Adjustment Counseling and her Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study in School Psychology in 1993 at Northeastern University. In building her expertise, Linda became certified in Children’s Yoga, Yoga Nidra meditation, is an Experienced-Registered Yoga Teacher and Continuing Education Provider, received intensive training in Mindfulness, and Train the Trainer in Calm Classroom, Resilient Schools from the Benson-Henry Institute through Massachusetts General Hospital, and Anti-Bullying and Cyberbullying through the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center. In combining her vast experience in counseling and mindfulness, Linda provides practical workshops and presentations with helpful, hands-on strategies for Minding Your Mind for parents and caregivers, school personnel, counselors/psychologists, corporations, and the community at large. Her presentations address topics in mindfulness, trauma-informed social emotional learning, mental health, and anxiety with titles including “Trauma-Informed SEL”, “SEL and Mindfulness for a more compassionate school climate”, “Surviving to Thriving”, “Coping Skills for Current Times: Supporting the Mental Health of K-6 youth”, and “Mindful Parenting”. No matter the audience or topic,
None of the planners for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
At this time, none of the presenters for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. If relevant financial relationships are identified, this information will be shared with learners prior to the educational activity.
Continuing Education Information:
Northeastern University School of Nursing is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurse Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Provider Number 2016U018
Participants successfully completing this program will receive a statement of credit for contact hours. Statements of Credit may be printed on-line after successful completion of the learning assessment.