Community Education
Skyland Trail brings knowledge to the larger community, with the goals of enhancing treatment and reducing the stigma of mental illness.
Skyland Trail's community education initiative will offer periodic Lunch-and-Learn programs for mental health professionals to receive continuing education credits. Along with the Lunch-and-Learn series, there will be interactive mental health programs, known as our Community Education Series, open to the general public. The fee for these events is $20 and will be held at the Dorothy C. Fuqua Training Center, located at the corner of North Druid Hills Road and Buford Highway in Atlanta. Through this community outreach, Skyland Trail will increase the awareness and understanding of mental illness, as well as reduce the stigma often associated with it.
Lunch and Learn
Skyland Trail's Lunch-and-Learn Series offers programs for mental health professionals to receive continuing education credits.
Community Education Series
Interactive programs on mental health topics are presented for the general public for a fee of $20 at the Dorothy C. Fuqua Training Center at Skyland Trail, located at the corner of North Druid Hills Road and Buford Highway in Atlanta. These programs increase awareness and understanding of mental illness, reducing the stigma often associated with it.
Befriending Grief: Nurturing a Healthy Relationship with the Process of Loss
Date: October 7, 2010
Time: 6:15PM - 8:30PM
Location: Dorothy C. Fuqua Training Center
Presented By: Stuart D. Smith, LPC, The Link Counseling Center, Clinical Coordinator for the Link's Resource Center for Suicide Prevention and Aftercare. This presentation is intended to bring increased comfort and awareness to those who work with grieving clients. Working therapeutically with grief is challenging, as practitioners often feel a need to do something...to fix the grief. While it can generate serious complications, grief itself need not be seen as pathological. The grief process can be a very rich, though painful experience in which people benefit significantly from proper support and understanding. Response to loss often involves significant disorientation in those left behind, and one of our tasks is to learn appropriate ways to be with them in the process of adjustment. We will explore some of those ways while examining some of the therapeutic challenges that loss and grief provide.
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