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Lisa's Calendar of Presentations, Workshops, Keynotes
and Programs Where Was Lisa Presenting in 2012: Homefirst/Family Success Center: Plainfield Office hours
1/4/12 Neptune
School District: Professional Development 2 hour workshop for guidance and child study staff: 1/10/12 Homefirst/Family Success Center: Plainfield Office hours
1/11/12 PTSM: Post Traumatic Stress Management
program delivered by Dr. Robert Macy on Supporting People after a Homicide or Suicide 1/13/12 James Caldwell High School: Presentations for Freshmen on Coping with Transitions,
Grief and Loss 1/12/12 Children's
Therapy Center: Sib Shops: Presenting to Siblings of Children with Special Needs: 1/14/12 Princeton High School: presentation to grief and loss group 1/17/12 Traumatic Loss Coalition of Essex County: Lead Response Team Meeting:
1/18/12 Traumatic Loss Coalition of Union Lead
Response Team Meeting: 1/19/12 Pequannock
High School: Professional Development for Teachers K-12, 3.5 hours 1/24/12 The Forum: Teaneck High School School Based Program: Presentation to 3 groups: 1/25/12 Webinar: "Emotional Regulation: Strategies for Children and Adolescents
Experiencing Irritability and Difficulties Managing Their Emotions" Sponsored by the NJ. Center for Tourette Syndrome
and Associated Disorders 1/25/12 :7:30-8:30 PM Domestic
Violence 101: Training for Professionals through YWCA Eastern Union County: 1/26/12 Traumatic Loss Coalition of Middlesex County: 1/27/12 Domestic Violence 201: Training for Professionals through YWCA Eastern Union County: 1/31/12 Suicide Prevention Resource Center: Webinar: Bullying and Suicide Prevention:
2/2/12/ Mt. Saint Mary's High School: Wellness
Day: Presentations to Students on Teens Coping with Grief, Loss & Other Tough Stuff 2/3/12 Grand Rounds: Tech Addiction and Its Impact on Children and Adults-
Trinitas Regional Medical Center: 2/10/12, 9:30-12PM Webinar: Hazeldon: Preventing Teen Dating Violence: Respect Works -
2/14/12 North Plainfield School District:
Suicide Prevention Programs (K-12) for Staff: 3 sessions: 2/16/12 Westfield School District: School Nurses and Counselors in Elementary and Middle Schools:
3 Hour In-service 2/21/12 Teaneck
High School: The Forum, School Based Program: 3 Group Sessions for students on Coping with Loss & Other Tough Stuff 2/23/12 Traumatic Loss Coalition of Middlesex
County: 2/24/12 Teen Screen National Center Webinar:
Bipolar in Adolescents: What Primary Care Providers Need to Know 2/29/12 Traumatic Loss Coalition for Youth of Essex County: Developmental Disabilities and Resources: 2/29/12
NJAHPERD: Annual Convention, Presentation for Health
Educators on Teaching Grief and Loss in Health Class: 3/5/12 Jonathan Dayton High School, Springfield, Presentations to Juniors in Health Classes: 3/12/12 St. Michael's Youth Group at St.
Michael's Church Union; Presentation to 200 Teens: "Seek First to Understand: How to Get Along Better with
Your Parents" PM Program: 3/13/12 Traumatic Loss Coalition of NJ- Union County Meeting: 3/15/12 Webinar: SPC: Human Trafficking: 3/15/12 Holy Spirit: Divorced and Separated Support Group: Seasons: Presentation to Group 3/15/12
Children's Therapy Center: Program for Staff:
3/20/12 ' Webinar: U of Albany:
Latinos During Emergencies: Cultural Considerations Impacting Disaster Preparedness, 3/22/12 Homefirst/Family Success Center: Young People's Group: facilitate
a discussion group- 3/22/12 Contact
We Care: Crisis Hotline: Training for Volunteers: Presentation on Helping Callers with Grief and Loss Issues: 3/26/12
Webinar: Drug Dependent Newborns: 3/29/12 Webinar: SPRC (Society for the Prevention and Research Center) Saving
Our Youth: How One Native Community Reduced Teen Suicide 3/29/12 Teen Screen Webinar: Teens with Depression and Anxiety: 3/30/12 Rainbows: Support Program for Families in Transition: Presenting to the Parents:
Coping With Family Transitions While Nurturing Resilience in their Children. 4/16/12 Traumatic Loss Coalition of NJ- Union County: 4/19/12 The Pines at Whiting: Senior Living Community: "An Attitude of
Gratitude" Presentation for the Annual Volunteers' Luncheon 4/25/12 Washington State Problem Gambling Council- Evergreen Council on Problem Gambling Annual Conference:
Focus on the Future- in conjunction with Oregon Health Authority, NAADAC and the Chemical Dependency Professionals of Washington:
Keynote and Breakout Session: Grief, Gambling and Addictions. Vancouver, WA: 4/27/12 Youth Group- facilitate a discussion group for youth at Homefirst/Family
Success Center: 4/26/12 Traumatic
Loss Coalition of Middlesex County: 4/27/12 New
Jersey Counseling Association Annual Conference: Presentation: Different Ways to Grieve, Different Ways to Heal in Our
'Get Over It' and 'Move On' Society. Brookdale College, Lincroft, 4/29/12 Homefirst/Family Success Center: Planning for "Thursdays with Lisa"
monthly support group program for teens of Plainfield 5/1/12 West Caldwell Parent Program: "Safeguarding Our Children While Building Success and Nurturing Resiliency",(2 hours) James Caldwell HS: 5/1/12 Meeting about a grief support program at local church in Union County:
5/2/12 NJ Half Marathon: Long Branch, NJ: 5/6/12
New York Council on Problem Gambling: Keynote
and workshop: Grief and Gambling: Exploring the Connections: in Albany, NY 5/9/12 Traumatic Loss Coalition of Essex County: 5/16/12 Traumatic Loss Coalition of Union County: 5/17/12 Meeting with Kerry Glass, Founder of Memories Live, a non profit whose mission is
to help those with life-limiting illnesses preserve their images, stories and wisdom by creating personalized movies to pass
on to their loved ones. Services are at no cost. www.memorieslive.org 5/18/12 Teaneck High School: School Based Program, The Forum: Presentation for middle
school group: 5/17/12 Young
People's Group: Facilitate a discussion group with youth: Homefirst/Family Success Center- 5/24/12 Traumatic Loss Coalition of Middlesex County: 5/25/12 Webinar: The Neurobiology of Trauma- What is Happening in the Brain
of Someone With Unresolved Trauma, Ruth Lanius, MD,PhD, 5/30/12 Teen Screen Webinar: Why do pople hurt themselves? Advance in understanding assessment and treatment
in self harm, Harvard University: 5/31/12 Jonathan
Dayton High School: Health Class Presentations to Seniors: 6/4/12 Collaborative Care in the Aftermath of Youth Suicide: All day conference that provides an in-depth
look at the world of youth suicide, focsing on mental health, stories of loss and survival, current statistics, preventative
factors and the importance of the grieving process and remembrance. Conference at Montclair State University:
6/5/12 Homefirst/Family Success Center:
Thursdays with Lisa: Discussion for teens of Plainfield: 6/24/12 Camp Clover Staff Training: Week long Bereavement Day Camp for Children in Warren, NJ 6/30
& 7/1/12 JALP: Summer camp
program for at risk teens: Presentation for teens on Coping with Grief and Loss: 7/10/12 Domestic Violence Coalition of Middlesex County: Presentation on Grief, Loss
& Domestic Violence 8/1/12 Camp
Clover Bereavement Day Camp: On site staff bereavement specialist: 8/20-8/24/12 Webinar: Understanding Trauma, From "Simple" to "Complex" , The Glendon Association,
9/10/12 Traumatic Loss Coalition
of Essex County: Lead Response Team Meeting: 9/12/12 Webinar: Working with Multiple Losses: ADEC (Association for Death Education and Counseling) Working with
Multiple Losses with J. William Worden, PhD, Harvard 9/19/12 Webinar: Generation Text: sponsored by the Tourette's Syndrome Foundation of NJ 9/19/12 The Pines at Whiting, Retirement Community, "Celebrating
Spirituality" Presentation for residents 9/26/12 Homefirst: "Thursdays with Lisa" Monthly Teen Rap Group for Teens in the Plainfield Area 9/27/12 Understanding and Treating the Complex Puzzle of Non-Suicidal Self
Injury, presented by author Berent Walsh, PhD, 9/28/12 Westfield
High School: Presentations to Freshmen Class on Coping with Grief, Loss & Other Tough Stuff 10/10-10/11/12
Webinar:
Debunking Marijuana Myths: Debunking Marijuana Myths, science, prevention,
and law enforcement experts will talk about some common myths and provide the facts. sponsored by the
Multijurisdictional Counterdrug Task Force Training 10/15/12 Traumatic Loss
Coalition of Essex County: Rachel's Coalition: In Her Shoes: workshop on domestic violence 10/17/12 Contact We Care: Crisis Hotline Volunteer Training Program:
"Supporting Grieving Callers", 10/17/2012 Jonathan Dayton High School: Assembly presentations to freshmen health classes: Coping with Grief, Loss &
Other Tough Stuff 10/22/12 What
21st Century School Professionals Need to Know about Grieving Students: 2 hour program for professionals, 10/24/12 Professional Caregivers Program: Grief, Loss and Caregiving Johnstown, NY 10/26/2012 Family Caregiver Day: Guest Speaker for program:
"Ask Me How I'm Doing and Then Just Listen" Johnstown, NY 10/27/2012 Middlesex County Domestic Violence Response Team: Presentation on Coping with Grief, Loss &
Other Tough Stuff 11/7/12 The
Pines at Whiting: Presentation for the Veterans: Lunchtime Address 11/12/12 Oak Knoll School: Served on a panel after a program on Eating
Disorders put on by Add Verb Productions: The Thin Line,
a one woman show about eating disorders 11/14/12
Seton Hall University: 2 hour program for
undergraduates in Education/ Special Education: Supporting Grieving Students and Coping with You Own Personal Losses, Grief & Other Tough Stuff. 11/19/2012 Out of state 11/26-12/1 2012 Parsippany School District: Parent Presentation: Nurturing Resiliency in Our
Children through Grief, Loss & Other Tough Stuff 12/6/12 Clinical Management of Suicidal Youth: Cognitive Behavioral Treatment Approaches : Workshop sponsored by TLC for Youth of NJ 12/11/12 Traumatic Loss Coalition of Essex County: Presentation: What the 21st Century School Professional Needs to Know about Grieving Students 12/12/12
Camp Clover Advisory Board Meeting: Preparing for
Camp Clover 2013 12/13/12 Hope for the
Holidays- Presentation for Homefirst/Family Success Center of Plainfield 12/17/12 Traumatic Loss Coalition of Middlesex County Monthly
Meeting for TLC/LRT 12/21/12 Homefirst/Family
Success Center: Thursdays with Lisa Teen Rap Group 12/27/12 Where Will Lisa Be Speaking in 2013? Westfield High School- Presenting to Freshmen in Health Classes on Teens Coping with Grief,
Loss & Other Tough Stuff: 1/7/2013 and 1/8/2013 Springfield Rotary Club: Communities Coping with
Tragedy and Loss 1/8/13 Elizabeth
School District: Program for Parents in K-8 : Nurturning Resiliency in Our Children as the Face
Challenges, Loss and Other Transitions 1/14/2013 Traumatic Loss Coalition for NJ of Essex County: Lead Response Team Meeting
1/16/13 Suicide Safety: Reducing a suicidal person's access to firearms: webinar, Well Aware:
1/17/13 James Caldwell High School: Presentation to Freshmen Student: Teens Coping with Grief, Loss & Other Tough Stuff: 1/18/13 Pequannock High School, Health
Class Presentations for Freshmen, Navigating Through Grief, Loss & Other Tough Stuff 1/23/13 and 1/24/ 13 Traumatic Loss Coalitions for NJ of Middlesex County: Lead
Response Team Meeting 1/25/13 Bridgewater
Raritan High School: Presenting to School Counselors and Crisis
Team: Nurturing Resliency in Students Coping with Grief, Loss
& Other Tough Stuff : 2.5 hour workshop for staff, 1/30/13 Homefirst/ Family Success Center
of Plainfield: Support Group for Teens from Plainfield and Surrounding Communities: Grief, Loss
& Coping 2/7/13 Traumatic
Loss Coalition for NJ of Essex County: Program: Healing in the Wake of Traumatic
Loss with Wendy Sifcik, , 2/13/13 Alternatives,
Inc: Faciliate a Healing Group Session for Staff and Clients on Coping with Sudden
Loss and Grief 2/15/13 Healthy Coping with Grief, Loss & Other Tough Stuff & Supporting Other
Students: Presentation to College Students: University of Delaware, 2/20/13
Traumatic Loss Coaliton for NJ of Middlesex County:
Lead Response Team Meeting: 2/22/13 Teaneck High School: The Forum, School Based Program: Present to 7th and 8th graders: Teens Coping with
Grief, Loss & Other Tough Stuff: 2/28/13 Seasons: Support Group for Those Separated, Divorced and Widowed: "Winning Friends and Influencing People: Getting Along with Difficult People"
3/7/13 Teaneck High School; the Forum: presenting to high school students on coping with grief and loss 3/13/13 Traumatic Loss Coalition of Essex County: Lead Response
team meeting 3/13/13 Jonathan
Dayton High School, Springfield, Presentations to High School Juniors on Coping with Grief, Loss & Other
Tough Stuff 3/18/13 Contact We Care Crisis Hotline: Training for Volunteers Who Work the Hotline on Handling Grief Calls: 3/20/13 Traumatic Loss Coalition for Youth of NJ, Middlesex County Lead Response Team Meeting:
3/29/13 Teaneck High School: The Forum, School Based Program: Present
to high school students on coping with grief, loss and other tough stuff, 4/1/13
Middlesex County
Division of Domestic Violence Response Team: Perth
Amboy: Presenting to the DV response team members on supporting
grieving clients and families: 4/10/13 The Compassionate Friends; Parsippany
support group: Grief in our "Get Over it" and "Move On"
Society: 4/11/13 Division of Family Resource & Youth Services: Presenting to Adults Working with At Risk Youth in Eastern and Central
Kentucky: 4/14 - 4/18/13 Post Traumatic Stress Management: Dr. Robert Macy speaking
on PTSM Advanced Suicide Protocols: 4/24/13 Kinnelon High School: Presentations to Health Classes for Freshmen on Coping with Grief, Loss
& Other Tough Stuff 5/7/13 Camp Clover: Bereavement specialist on site at bereavement
day camp: 8/26-8/30/13 Cancer Support Community Central New Jersey: School Conference: Supporting Students When Parents
Have Cancer- Nurturing Resiliency while Supporting Grieving Students 11/1/2013 Where Was Lisa in 2011? Bold: Presentations, Workshops or Keynotes presented by Lisa Not bold: Continuing Education or workshops Lisa is attending Teaneck High School: The Forum; school based program: Spoke to a
young women's group and a young men's group on Coping with Grief, Loss and Tough Stuff; 1/4/11 GLBT Conference: GLBT Youth- Family Focused Approach to Reduce Risk for Suicide and Other Health Problems, featuring Caitlin Ryan, PhD, ACSW, founder of the Family Acceptance Project Research:1/6/11 Assumption Academy: Presentation for school staff: Supporting Grieving Students: 1/7/11 (postponed, snow) Livingston High School: Guidance Department Presentation to the entire district: Supporting Grieving Students 1/10/11 Kinnelon High School: Teens Coping with Grief, Loss and Transitions: 12 grades: 1/13 and 1/14/2011 West Essex Middle School: Presentations to entire 7th grade and entire 8th grade: Coping with Grief, Loss & Other Tough Stuff: 1/17/11 Essex County Traumatic Loss Coalition for Youth meeting for Lead Response Team: discussed NJ Anti Bullying Bill of Rights Act 1/19/11 Pequannock High School: Presentation to health classes on coping with grief, loss and other tough stuff: 1/20/11 Reschedule National Alliance for Grieving Children Webinar: Training Volunteers to Lead Bereavement Groups 1/21/11 Camp Clover: meeting to discuss and plan
Camp Clover:a week long free bereavement day camp in August 2011
Summit School District: Parent/ Child Program: 3rd-5th graders and parents/guardians: Children Coping with Loss, Grief and Other Tough Stuff 1/26/2011 Essex County School Nurse Association @ South Orange Middle School: 1/26/11 "Preventing Prescription Abuse" Webinar 1/27/11 Middlesex County Traumatic Loss Coalition Meeting: 1/28/11 Webinar: Preventing Prescription Drug Abuse 2/3/11 Oak Knoll School: Watching Documentary: The Race To Nowhere
2/3/11 Belleville Elementary Schools: Presentations to the Counselors and Staff: Supporting Grieving Elementary Students 2/4/11 Traumatic Loss Coalitions for Youth Program: Classroom Based Interventions and PTSM (Post traumatic
stress management) Response Protocols 2/7/11 Homefirst/Family Success Center
of Plainfield : Meeting to plan upcoming support group St. Michaels' Church Youth Group: Presenting on Teens Coping with the Loss of
a Loved One: 2 hour program for 200 teens 2/8/11 Teaneck High School: The Forum: School based program, Teens Coping with Grief, Loss and Other Tough Stuff: 2/9/11 St Mary's Church: Church Group, Nutley. Program on Coping with Grief and Multiple Losses Over the Years: 2/14/11 TLC of Essex County: Working with Veterans 2/16/11 NJ Community College Counselors Mini Conference: Bergen Community College: College Students, Grief and Coping with a Tragic Loss due to Suicide 2/18/11 Oak Knoll School: 7th grades : Coping with
Grief, Loss and Other Tough Stuff 2/22/11 CASE
Center for Adoption, Support and Education: Webinar: The Facts about Open Adoption 2/22/11 NJ Center for Women, Livingston, : Adults
Coping with Grief and Loss 2/23/11 Teasing
and Bullying: Know the Law: NJ Bar Foundation: Bullying Program for NJ Educators: 2/24/11 TLC of Middlesex County: Lead Response Team and 2/25/11 Bergen County DYFS (Division of
Youth and Family Services): Children and Families Coping with Grief, Loss and Trauma: How Can we Help?
Presentation to staff 2/28/11 North
Plainfield High School: Assembly to seniors: 3/3/11 Sage Day School: therapeutic high school, Professional Staff Development: Presenting on:
When Parents Leave Children Behind: Death, Divorce and Abandonment 3/2/11 Out of Town 3/6 - 3/10/11
Jonathan Dayton High School: Juniors: Coping with Grief, Loss
& Other Tough Stuff 3/14/11 Essex County Traumatic Loss Coalition: meeting lead response team: Veterans and Grief 3/16/11 Contact We Care: Working with Adolescent Callers : Training
for the Volunteer Hot-line 3/16/11 Cognitive-Behavioral
Therapy for Suicidal Patients: led by Amy Wenzel, PhD, UPenn, Nationally recognized clinician researcher and teacher in the
areas of suicide and cognitive behavioral therapy. Princeton House Behavioral Health: Professional Workshop Series:
3/17/11 Camp Clover Planning Meeting: 3/17/11 Webinar: Co-Occurring Mental Health & Substance Disorders: Developing Integrated Systems of
Care for Individuals and Families : Live Webcast with Kenneth Minkoff, M.D, Nation's leading expert on the treatment of co-occurring
disorders 3/18/11 NJ Annual State School Nurse Association Conference:
School Nurses: Staying Afloat in a Sea of Demands: Presenting two breakout sessions: Teens,
Grief and Technology: The Influence on the Ways Teens Grieve & When Parents Leave Children Behind: Death, Divorce and
Abandonment: How to Help These Children Succeed- New Brunswick, 3/19/11 The
Children's' Therapy Center: The Cerebral Palsy Center, Bergen County. 6-13 year old children who have developmental
disabilities, physical disabilities and/or are medically fragile. Staff Presentation: Supporting Children through
Grief and Loss: 3/22/11 Contact We Care: Crisis Hot-line
Volunteer Training: Provide Information on Grief Calls for the Hot-line Volunteers: 3/23/11 Webinar: Scholastic presents: Help Grieving Students, 4-5pm 3/24/11
Home First/Family Success Center: Group #1 of 6 week group:
Let Grief Speak 3/24/11 Bayonne High School: School District Counselors; Supporting Grieving Students ; Cultures and
Grief, Technology and Grief: 3/25/11 Rainbows: Evening presentation to parents experiencing loss through
death, divorce, separation or abandonment: 3/28/11 Camp
Clover Meeting: Planning for the week long bereavement camp in August 3/29/11 NJ Depression and Bipolar Alliance Support Group:
Addictions and Mood Disorders 3/30/11 Oak Knoll School: 9th grades: Coping with Grief, Loss and Other Tough Stuff
3/31/11 Teen Screen Webinar: Adolescents and Anxiety:
3/31/11 Camp Clover Training for Camp Volunteers:
4/2/11 and 4/9/11 (training for bereavement day camp volunteers for camp in August) Bergen County School Counselors Association: Dinner
meeting: Presentation 4/5/11 Webinar: Understanding
and Preventing Violence by Lisa Firestone, PhD 4/5/11 Homefirst/Family
Success Center of Plainfield: Week #1 of 6 week Grief Support Group 4/7/11 Oak Knoll School: 9th graders : Coping Strategies
and Support Systems 4/8/11 Oak
Knoll School: 7th graders: Healthy Ways to Cope with Transitions, Grief and Stress 4/11/11 Sage Day School: Presentation to students on Coping with Grief, Loss and Other
Tough Stuff 4/12/11 Homefirst/Family
Success Center: 6 week support group: Let Grief Speak: Group # 2: 4/14/11 Spirituality and End of Life Care: 2011 Annual Educational Live Webinar by The Hospice Foundation of
America: 4/13/11 @ Atlantic Health Care and Hospice Pequannock Middle School: Presentation to Parents of Middle Schooler: Supporting
Grieving Students 4/13/11 Workshop
presented by Daniel Goleman: Emotional Intelligence of Children: at Bergen County Community College 4/15/11 The Compassionate
Friends of Ocean County: Coping with Grief and Loss 4/17/11 Webinar: Anxiety and Its Impact on Sprots, Academics and Performance: Understanding the Mental and Emotional Side
of Performance: 4/20/11 Supporting the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual
and Transgender (LGBT) Community through Illness, Death and Grief: Webinar: Hospice Foundation of America 4/20/11 Homefirst/Family Success Center: Group # 3, 4/21/11 Teaneck School Based Program: The Forum: Teens Coping with Grief, Loss and
Other Tough Stuff: 4/26/11 Hunderton County Traumatic Loss Coalition for Youth: Presenting on Supporting Families
Coping with Loss, Grief and Other Tough Stuff: 2 hour workshop held in Flemington, NJ 4/27/10 Atlantic
Hospice: Training for Volunteers for the Hospice Program on Grief and Loss in the Lives of Families 4/28/11 Watchung Hills Regional High
School: Presenting to all of the health classes on Teens Coping with Grief, Loss and Other Tough Stuff 4/29/11
The Milton School: Presentation to students: Coping with Grief,
Loss & Other Tough Stuff: 5/3/11 Atlantic
Hospice: Training for Staff for the Hospice Program: 5/5/11 Teaneck High School: School Based Program, The Forum: Teens Coping with Grief, Loss & Other Tough Stuff
5/9/11 Pequannock High School: Senior Health Classes:
Coping with Transitions, Loss and Other Tough Stuff 5/19/11 Workshop presented by Kenneth Hardy, PhD, author of Teens Who Hurt: Teens Who Hurt: Effective Strategies for Working
with Troubled Adolescents: Mercer County Comm College: 5/16/11 Essex County Traumatic Loss Coalition: meeting for lead response team: 5/18/11 Madison High School: Presentation to Seniors on Coping with Transitions, Loss and Other Tough
Stuff 5/20/11 (tentative date) Jonathan Dayton
High School: Senior Health Classes: Coping with Transitions, Loss & Other Tough Stuff 5/23/11 Princeton High School: Grief
Support for Parents 5/23/11 Every
15 Minutes: School Program: NJ Drunk Driving Prevention Program at an undisclosed local High School 5/24/11
Good Ideas Conference: Ocean and Monmouth County School Counselors'
Association Conference: Teens, Grief and Technology: How Technology Influences the Way Teens Grieve 5/26/11
SPRC (Suicide Prevention Resource Center) Webinar: Responding After a Suicide:
Best Practices for Schools 5/26/11 Middlesex
County TLC Lead Response Team Meeting 5/27/11 Holy Spirit Group:
Presented on Grief and Loss When We Say Goodbye: Seasons: Support Group Open to those who have lost a relationship due to
divorce: 6/2/11 Windsor Preparatory High School: Staff Presentation: K-12, Encouraging Resiliency in Students Coping with Loss and Transitions 6/3/1 Webinar: Psychological First Aid: Diagnosis and Prevention of PTSD: Matthew Friedman, MD, PhD 6/8/11 Passaic County Student Assistant Professionals Meeting: SAC's Supporting Students through Grief, Loss and Other Difficult Transitions 6/9/11 Roselle High School: Annual Youth Conference:
Coping with Loss Workshop for Teens 6/11/11 Pequannock
High School: Senior Health Class Presentations: Young Adults Coping with Grief, Transitions and Other Tough Stuff 6/13/11
Warren County Traumatic Loss Coalition for Youth: Presentation
to Members and Lead Response Team on Grief and Loss: 6/15/11 Schwartz
Center Rounds: Overlook Hospital: Acute Grief at the Bedside: Serve on the Panel 7/18/11 Overlook Hospital: Presenting at the Family Medicine Residents Conference:
Children, Adolescents and Grief 7/26/11 The Womens' Center: Livingston: Coping with Grief and Loss Workshop: 8/3/11 Camp Clover: week long bereavement camp sponsored by
Atlantic Home Care, on site as a grief specialist August 22- 26, 2011 Homefirst/Family Success Center: Teen Presentation 8/30/11 Alternatives: 24/7 Program: 3 Hour workshop for staff and residents of program on Coping with
Grief, Loss & Other Tough Stuff: 9/1/11 North
Plainfield School District: Suicide Prevention Program for Staff K-12; 3 sessions 9/7/11 Webinar: 9/11: A Decade Later: Finding Hope and Healing After Traumatic Loss : Open to Hope Foundation
9/8/11 Hinckley Elementary School, Minnesota, Presentations
to K-6th, Parents and Faculty In-service training 9/11-9/13/11 Traumatic
Loss Coalition for Youth of NJ: Essex County: Lead Response Team : 9/14/11 Promoting Awareness, Preventing Suicide: An evening with James Lecesne on LGBTQ Youth's Struggle to Find Acceptance,
Montclair State Univ 9/16/11 Sesame Street Family
Fun Day: Chelsea Piers. Event for families on coping with grief. Resource table: 9/18/11 Sparta High School: presentations to students 9/20/11 Presenting Workshop at The Council on Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey Annual Statewide Conference: Gambling and Grief: What's the Connection? 9/22/2011 Traumatic Loss Coalition for Youth of NJ: Middlesex County: Lead Response Team Meeting:
North Brunswick, 9/23/11 Camp Clover Reunion:
Staff, Campers and Families come together again. Feedback about the camp experience and planning for 2012. 9/25/11 Cry For Help: Can Children Elementary Age and Younger Really be Suicidal? Well Aware
Webinar, visit: www.wellawaresp.org 9/27/11 Dr. Paul Wichansky
presented at Jonathan Dayton High School, Just the Way You Are: on character education and disability awareness 10/4/11
Post Traumatic Stress Management Training and Psychological First
Aid: with Ethnocultural, Gender and Developmental Specificity. Two day intensive training by Robert Macy: Sponsored
by Traumatic Loss Coalition for Youth of NJ: 10/6/11, 10/7/11 Jonathan
Dayton High School: Health class presentations to freshmen on Teens Coping with Grief, Loss & Other Tough Stuff: 10/11/11
Westfield High School: Health Class presentations to freshmen
on Teens Coping with Grief, Loss & Other Tough Stuff 10/12/11 Homefirst/Family Success Center: "I Had it, I Lost it, I Will Survive": Coping with loss of work
and life style : evening presentation 10/12/11 Traumatic Loss Coalition for Youth of NJ: Essex County: 10/12/11 Are Drugs the Answer? Exploring Alternative for Psychiatric
Well-Being NJSCA: New Jersey School Counselors' Association Fall Conference: 3 Hour Pre-Conference
Program: School Counselors Helping Students Cope with a Sudden or Anticipated Death: Family, Friend, Peer or Pet
10/16/11 This
workshop will explore avenues for addressing psychiatric disorders without
an independent reliance on psychopharmacology. A holistic approach is explored
drawing from Dr. Sandy Newmark's book ADHD Without Drugs. Homefirst/Family Success Center of Plainfield:
Caregiver Support Workshop Series: Morning groups on 10/18, 11/1, 11/15 Guiding Light: Helping Parents Comprehend the Potential for Suicide in their Children: Well Aware Webinar,
wellawaresp.org 10/18/11 Contact We Care: 24/7 Crisis
Hotline Training: class focus on: Adolescents and Grief: 10/19/11 Hunterdon County Polytech High School: Classroom Presentations to Students: 10/21/11 Contact We Care: 24/7 Crisis Hotline Training: class focus
on: Callers Coping with Grief, Loss & Other Tough Stuff 10/26/11 Homefirst/Family Success Center: Caregiver Support Workshop Series: 11/1/11 How Young is Too Young? Age Appropriate Programs to Foster Suicide Prevention in Children:
Well Aware Webinar: 11/2/11 Monmouth University Graduate
Class: Clinical Rotations for Counseling Students: How to Best Support Grieving Students K-12, 11/3/11 Grover Cleveland Elementary School, Rahway:
DAISY program: parents of pre-schoolers: How Adults Can Best Support Children in Difficult Times 11/4/11
Rainbows: Presentation to parents on children and adults experiencing
the grief of divorce or separation 11/7/11 Homefirst/Family
Success Center: "I Had It, I Lost It, I Survived It" series on losing a lifestyle, job etc. 11/8/11
Homefirst/Family Success Center: Caregiver Support Workshop Series:
11/15/11 Sussex County Traumatic Loss Coalition
for Youth of NJ: Presentation to Lead Response team and TLC members 11/17/11 Nutley High School: Presentation to students 11/17/11 Pequannock Middle School: 2 hour Parent Program: Nurturing Resiliency in Our Children 11/29/11
Pequannock Middle School: 2 Students Assemblies 11/30/11 Hawthorne High School: Presentation to Peer Leaders: Supporting Teens Experiencing
Grief, Loss & Other Tough Stuff 12/1/11 Louisiana:
Kilpatrick Funeral Homes and School Districts in Monroe Area: Program for students, faculty, parents and community members:
Encouraging Resilience in Our Youth. 12/4/11-12/7/11 Why
People Die by Suicide: Thomas Joiner, Sponsored by the Traumatic Loss Coalition for Youth Sponsoring this workshop: 12/13/11
Getting Through the Holidays: coping with grief and loss: Handle
With Care: Caregivers Program: Toms River: 12/14/11 "
I Had it, I Lost It, I Survived" Group at Homefirst/Family Success Center in Plainfield: Coping with All Types of Loss
12/14/11 Westfield High School: Presentations
to Freshmen : Healthy Coping with Grief, Loss & Other Tough Stuff 12/19/11 Caregivers Support Group: Homefirst/Family Success Center in Plainfield 12/20/11
Where
Was Lisa in 2010? Calendar for 2010 (presentation, workshops,
keynotes, and continuing education): Teaneck
High School: Student presentations through the The Forum, Teen Center 1/5/10
Jonathan Dayton High School:
Faculty presentation: 1/6/10 Supporting HS Students Through Loss and Transitions Linden Girl Scout Troop: Adolescents Coping with
Grief and Loss: When a Young Friend Dies - 1/6/10 Teaneck High School
: Student presentations at The Forum, School Based Program: Boys HS group, Girls HS group, 1/7/10 A Conference on Underage Drinking: Trinitas, Prevention Links, 1/8/10 Trinitas Regional Medical
Center Valerie Center at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center: Grief Support for
Staff: When Professionals Grieve 1/8/10 Grace and Peace Church, Youth Group Presentation in Cranford: When a Beloved Young Friend Dies: Teens Coping
with Grief 1/9/10 Essex County Traumatic Loss Coalition for Youth: Lead Response Team meeting 1/13/09 Jefferson Township
Library: Coping with Depression and Grief after the Holidays , 7-8:30 Association for Student
Assistant Professionals Somerset County: 1/14/10 Supporting Grieving Students Woodbridge Middle Schools, Woodbridge
Student presentations on Coping with Transition and Loss : 1/13 Iselin Middle School: 6th, 7th and 8th Grades: Coping with Transitions and Loss: 1/15/10 Clifton High School:
3 hour in-service professional development workshop for SAC's, Learning Consultants and Guidance Counselors
K -12th : 1/18/10 TLC training on Traumatic Incident Intervention: to help grieving Haitian children and families
1/19/10 Avenel Middle School: Presentations
to 6th graders about Coping with Transition and Loss: 1/20/10 Toussaint Louventure Marquis De Lafayette School:
Elizabeth: Supporting Haitian Students (TLC) 1/21/10
afternoon group Support Group -Springfield: Saying Goodbye to a young friend after a sudden loss-
1/21/10 Woodbridge Middle School: Presentations to 6th graders
1/22/10 Girl Scout Troop: 6th graders : Friendships -
Springfield: 1/24/10 Manalapan-Englishtown Schools: 2 hour professional development workshop:
Counselors and Nurses: K-8 1/26/10 Colonia Middle School: 6th
graders: Let's talk about coping with transitions and loss, 1/27/10 C.A.S.E.: Center for Adoption Support and Education: Webinar: Beneath the Mask: Understanding
Adopted Teens with Debbie Riley 1/28/10 Barkalow Middle School: Freehold School District, 3 hour Guidance Staff in-service workshop:
Supporting Grieving Middle Schoolers: 1/29/10 Oak Knoll School:
9th and 10th grades: Teens Coping with Grief, Loss and Transitions 2/1/10 Oak Knoll School: 7th grades: Adolescents Coping with Transitions, Grief and Loss 2/2/10 Camp Clover: Week Long Bereavement Day Camp: Planning Meeting: 2/4/10 16th Annual NJ State Elks
Association Youth Peer Leadership Conference: Presenting to 200 peer leaders from all over NJ on Coping
with Grief, Loss and Other Tough Stuff: Two workshops 2/5/10-2/7/10 Long Branch NJ Homefirst : planning community
wide grief 6 week community support program for spring 2010: 2/8/10 Middletown School District: Middle Schools and High Schools: Program for staff 2/16/10 Jonathan Dayton High School: Presentation to the students in the Inclusion
Classroom: Bullying, Self Esteem, and Expressing Anger in healthy ways. 2/17/10 Grief After Suicide: How Does Suicide Change the Grieving ADEC Webinar by Jack Jordan
Ph.D, FT 2/17/10 Traumatic Loss Coalition for Youth of Essex County: Understanding Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Trans-gendered and
Questioning Youth , Hudson Pride Connections: 2/18/10 Children's Specialized Hospital:
grief support for parents of pediatric patients: When Everything Changes in an Instant:
Helping Parents to Cope 2/19/10 Oak Knoll School: 9th and 10th grades 2/22/10:
Books as a source of emotional support and inspiration during challenging times 2/22/10 Oak Knoll School:
7th and 8th grades: Learning to Listen with Empathy: 2/23/10 Mercer County School
Counselors: Supporting Grieving Students in School: Two hour professional development workshop
2/24/10 Montclair School District: ASAP (Association of Student Assistant
Professionals): Supporting Grieving Students as an SAP 2/25/10 TLC Middlesex County 2/26/10 Blog Talk Radio Show: Coping with the Grief of Divorce: 3/1/10 Livingston High School: Assembly Program for Seniors on Coping with
Transitions, Grief and Other Tough Stuff 3/2/10 Traumatic Incident Intervention: by Robert Macy, PhD: Certificate Course: one day
training for TII:Traumatic Incident Intervention in Schools: 3/3, 8-4 Advance Post Traumatic Stress Management: Protocols for Response to Suicide 3/4/10 MACY training 9-5 Advance Post Traumatic Stress Management: Protocol for Response to Homicide 3/5/10
Macy Training 8-5 Atlantic Health Palliative Care Program: Do Everything:
Overlook Hospital 3/9/10 Jonathan Dayton HS: 7 Health
Class Presentations on Teens Coping with Grief, Loss and other Tough Stuff 3/10/10 Teaneck High School: Forum, School Based Program: Teens Coping with Grief, Loss and Other
Tough Stuff 3/11/10 The Deron School of NJ: Speaking to faculty and staff:
Special Needs, Grief and Loss: two 2 hour professional development : 3/12/10 Saint Michael's Teen Youth Group: Presenting to 200 teens : Depression,
Self Injury and Suicide: What Teens Need to Know 3/16/10 GLBT youth in schools, TLC Essex County Meeting: 3/17/10 New Milford High School: Health and Alliance Seminar: Supporing Grieving
Students 3/18/10 Journey from Loss to Renewal: Clinical Interventions for Normal and Complicated Grief CMI Educational Institute, cutting
edge strategies for working
with normal, complicated and traumatic grief. Harold Ivan Smith, Ed.S. Parsippany, 3/19/10 Classroom Based Intervention: presented by Robert Macy, PhD, Founder and Executive Director of the Boston Center for Trauma Psychology, the Co-director
of a Category III National Center for the Child Traumatic Stress Network site in Boston, Founder of The Children's Trauma
Recovery Foundation and Research Associate in Psychology in the Dept of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. 3 day Certificate Course: intensive training for CBI Classroom Based
Intervention: 15 Session Protocol : 3//22- 3/24/10 Farleigh Dickenson University: Presenting to a graduate class on Schools, Community and Substance Abuse 3/23/10Webinar: Youth Suicide and Social Media: Well Aware: 3/24/11
Contact
We Care: 24/7 Crisis Helpline: 3 hour training for helpline volunteers: 3/24/10 TLC
Middlesex county: 3/26/10 Hospice Foundation of America: Cancer
and End of Life Care: 1:30-4pm Homefirst/ Family
Success Center: Facilitate a 6 Week Program for Community Members on Coping with Grief, Loss and Other Tough Stuff 4/8/10-5/13/10
New Jersey Counselors Association:
Conference: Grief, Loss and Healthy Coping : 4/10/10 Hunterdon
County Polytech High School: Speaking to nursing, early childhood education and law enforcement students : 2 hour program,
4/13/10 TLC Essex County, Cedar Grove 4/15/10 Youth Suicide Clusters: Webinar (viewing program) 4/15/10 Family Success Center Plainfield, 4/14/10
Chatham School District: Parent Program:
Raising Resilient Children and Teens Through Difficult Times: AM and PM programs; 4/27/10 Rainbows of Livingston: Program for children who have experienced
loss through divorce, death or abandonment. Speaking to the parents on Coping with Grief, Loss and Transition 4/19/10 Raising Your Boys: an In Depth Workshop for Parents: program
on violence prevention, domestic violence awareness: Perth Amboy Elementary School , Lisa doing a piece on psychodrama as
it pertains to the grief of domestic violence 4/21/10 Kinnelon High School: Freshman Health Classes: Coping with Grief, Loss and
Other Tough Stuff, 4/21/10 and 4/2310 School
Counselor County Association Dinner: Speaker for meeting (90 school counselors, SAC's, therapists) 4/26/10
Depression and Bipolar Association: DBSA 4/28/10 Grief around a Diagnosis (BiPolar Disorder, Depression) Family Success Center, Plainfield: Group: 4/29/10
TLC
of Middlesex County 4/30/10 Monmouth School Nurse Dinner: Speaker
for evening program: Aging with a Sense of Humor 5/4/10 Blog Radio Show: Guest of Esther Adler, author and speaker
The Milton School of Livingston: School for Teens with
Special Needs: Presenting to students on Coping with Tough Stuff: Health Fair 5/7/10 Teaneck High School: The Forum: Speaking at After-school Support Group to Teens: Coping
with Tough Stuff: 5/10/10 Traumatic Loss Coalition for Youth of
Essex County: Lead Response Team Meeting 5/12/10 Homefirst/Family
Success Center: Group Session #6 of Six Week Group on Grief and Loss: 5/13/10 The Valerie Center: Newark Beth Israel, The Children's Hospital: Grief Support for Valerie Center
Staff 1-3 5/14/10 Parsippany School District: 2 hour staff professional development
workshop: 5/21/10 Traumatic
Loss Coalition of Morris County: Speaking to members 5/21/10 What TLC Needs to Know about Grief The Women's Center: Livingston:
Grief, Loss and Coping: program for adults 7-9pm 5/26/10 Roselle Family Success Center: Youth Collaborative Program: Adolescent and Parent Program:
Speaking for two sessions (parent and teens) Good
Ideas Conference: Ocean County School Counselors Conference: Supporting Grieving Students 5/27/10 TLC of Middlesex County 5/28/10 Domestic Violence Task Force of Woodbridge: Coping with Grief and Loss around Domestic Violence:
6/2/10 Oak
Knoll School: Parent Presentation: Interventions in Bullying and Building Resiliency in Our Children 6/3/10 Glen Ridge High School: Staff Presentation
6/7/10 Coping with Loss Overlook Hospital Palliative Care Lecture Series: Coping with Bereavement 6/8/10 Summit, NJ Seasons: Support Group for Divorced
and Separated: Building Stronger Relationships 6/10/10 After a Suicide: Working with Survivors: Full day Traumatic Loss Coalition Training 8:30-4
6/11/10 Atlantic Hospice:
Planning a bereavement day camp for the summer of 2011: 6/15/10 Homefirst: Session I Grief and
Loss Group: Final Meeting 6/17/10 Lawrence School District: Professional Development for School Counselors, Child Study Team and School Nurses:
K -12, full day training: 8-3: 6/21/10 JALP: Camp for Youth
at Risk: Parsippany Police Department: Presentation to teens at risk on grief, loss and the
importance of finding healthy ways to express losses. 2 hour program . 7/7/2010 Disaster Response Crisis Counselor Training: Cultural Diversity and Trauma Response:
Montclair 7/21/10 Mountainside School District:2 three hour workshops for teachers, counselors, child study team, nurses: What
21st Century Schools Need to Know about Grieving Students 9/3/10 Association
for Death Education and Thanatology Association: Webinar: Promotion of Resilience Among Parentally
Bereaved Children with Irwin Sandler, PhD 9/15/10 Homefirst : Coping with Grief, Loss and Other Tough Stuff: 6 week group: open to community members
9/16/10 - 10/28/10 Traumatic Loss Coalition
for Youth of Passaic County: Coping with Grief - one hour presentation to TLC Lead Response Team and TLC members 9/21/10
Meeting for Traumatic Loss Coalition for Youth of Essex County: Lead Response
Team meeting 10AM-12PM 9/22/10 Homefirst: 6 week grief
and loss group 9/23/10 Meeting
for Camp Clover Bereavement Camp planning for August 2011: 1-3PM 9/23/10 Meeting for Traumatic Loss Coalition for Youth of Middlesex County: Lead Response Team and TLC: 9AM-12PM
9/24/10 Kenilworth Freedom Run 5K: "America Supports You"
Program in support of the US Armed Forces: Kenilworth, NJ 9/26/10 Homefirst:
6 Week Grief and Loss Group 9/30/10 Comfort
Zone Camp: Grief Relief 5K Walk in Brookdale Park, Bloomfield. For info: www.comfortzonecamp.org
10/2/10 Westfield High School: 9th grade health class
presentations: Teens Coping with Grief, Losses and Other Tough Stuff 10/4/10 Westfield High School: 9th grade health class presentations Teens Coping with Grief, Losses and Other Tough
Stuff 10/5/10 NJ Bullying Conference: Tinton Falls, NJ October
6, 2010 Homefirst 6 Week Grief and Loss Group: 10/7/10
Belleville High School: 2 hour professional development workshop:
Teens, Grief and Technology: The influence of Technology on the Way Teens Grieve 10/8/10 Voices of September 11th: Rutgers Continuing Education - Trauma Certification Program: Lessons Learned
from the Aftermath of 9/11: Best Practices for Addressing Trauma, Panelist
for Educating the Community on Grief and Loss, New Brunswick, 9-3, 10/9/10 Chatham
Middle School: Classroom Presentations to Students: Middle Schoolers Coping with Transition, Stress and Loss: 10/13,
10/14/, 10/15Kean University Graduate Course: Coordinating ATOD Program & Services, Counselor Education Department: 2 hour program: Coping with Grief and Loss: 10/16/10 NJ School Counselor Association Conference: 10/17, 10,18 Grieving Teens
in School: How to Support Middle Schoolers & High School Students and Foster Resiliency Pequannock High School Health Class Presentations: Freshmen: Teens Coping with Grief,
Loss and Other Tough Stuff 10/19/10 Camp Clover Meeting:
Planning the week long bereavement camp in August sponsored by Atlantic Health 10/19/10 Rachel's Challenge: Powerful Program about Compassion and Kindness, Summit High School 10/19/10 Traumatic Loss Coalition for Youth of Essex County: The Nurtured Heart Program presentation
10/20/10 Contact We Care: Facilitating a 3 hour
training on : Callers Coping with Grief and Loss- for their Volunteer Crisis Hot-line Training Class 10/20/10 Homefirst 6 Week: Grief and Loss Group: 10/21/10 (week 5) St.Patrick's 5K Race in Chatham: (raising money for the Father Ed Hines Foundation),
10/22/10 New Jersey Coalition for Bullying Awareness
and Prevention: Meeting at the NJ Law Center (NJ State Bar Foundation) 10/25/10 The
Wellness Community Conference for Educators: When a Family Member Has Cancer: When Students Grieve: How Schools Can
Help: 2 sessions, Bridgewater Manor 10/26/10 Homefirst 6 week Grief and Loss Group: Last session of
the 6 week program: 10/28/10 Camp Clover:
Meeting and Planning of Grief Day Camp: 10/28/10 Traumatic Loss Coalition
for Youth of Middlesex County: meeting for TLC members, AM 10/29/10 Jonathan Dayton High School: Teens Coping with Grief, Loss and Other Tough Stuff: 107- 9th graders
in their health class: presentations 11/1/10 Teaneck
High School: The Forum: School Based Program: Speaking to the middle school group on Coping with Grief, Loss and Other
Tough Stuff 11/2/10 Hunterdon County Polytech Institute:
Speaking to students, 11th &12th on Coping with Grief, Loss and Other Tough Stuff 11/3/10 Webinar: Crisis Response: When a Student Dies by Suicide: The Aftermath and How Schools
Can Make a Difference NJEA Convention Speaker: Atlantic City, teachers weekend, 3 hour workshop: What School Nurses
Need to Know about Grieving Students, 11/4/10 Teaneck High School: The Forum: School Based Program: Speaking to high school students
in the PASS (juvenile delinquent at risk) on Coping with Grief, Loss & Tough Stuff 11/8/10 Rutgers University: Speaking to Undergraduate Students in Social Work (BSW), internship
at Voice of 9/11: What Social Workers Need to Know about Grieving Families. 11/9/10 Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison Campus: Schools, Community & Substance
Abuse: Graduate Class, Presenting on Grief, Loss and Substance Abuse, 2 hour program, 11/9/10 Abraham
Clark High School (Roselle); 3 hour staff professional development workshop for Child Study Team, Guidance Department and
the School Based Program, "Supporting Grieving and Traumatized Students" 11/10/10 Traumatic Loss Coalition for
Youth of Union County: Meeting for Lead Response Team 11/11/10 Grief and the Holidays: Lecture at Center for
Hope Hospice, attending this program 11/15/10 "Child Traumatic Grief Issues
and Interventions Related to Military Children" webinar provided by the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors
(TAPS):11/16/10 C.A.S.E. The Center for Adoption, Support and Education, Inc.: Webinar: How
to Tell Children about Their Adoption: 11/16/10 www.adoptionsupport.org Dis/Similarities
Among LGBT Youth: Individual and School Level Differences in School Climate, webinar sponsored by GLSEN
11/17 Traumatic
Loss Coalition for Youth: Members and Lead Response Team of Essex County: 11/17/10 Montclair
High School: Counselors meeting: Speaking on Supporting Grieving Students Through Grief, Loss and Other Tough Stuff
11/18/10 Burch Charter School (Irvington): Classroom
support for 3rd graders: Coping with Sudden Loss, Comforting a Peer : 11/18/10 Traumatic Loss Coalition for Youth of Middlesex County: meeting AM, 11/19/10 Polk Elementary School (Roselle): Small Group Support for Children Who Have
Lost a Parent: (1st and 2nd graders) 11/19/10 Planning meeting
with Summit Elementary Counselors regarding a parent program on Supporting Children Through Transitions, Stress and Grief
for January, 2011 National
Suicide Survivor Day: Webinar: AFSP (American Foundation for Suicide Prevention) archived on site: www.afsp.org 11/20/10 Seton Hall University:
Speaker to undergraduate Education/Special Education Majors: What Future Teachers and College Students
Need to Know about Grief 11/22/10 Rainbows, Support group for families experiencing transitions of any kind,
Livingston: Present to parents: Helping ourselves and our children cope with grief 11/29/10 James Caldwell High School, West
Caldwell, Student Program: Presentations to Freshmen health classes: 11/30/10 Traumatic Loss Coalition presents: Coping with Youth Suicide:
Understanding Suicide Contagion 8-4 PM program, 12/1/10 Belleville Middle School: 2 hour Presentation to School Counselors/Special Services: Supporting Grieving Middle
Schoolers 12/3/10 Westfield High School: Sophomores: Health
Classes on Teens Coping with Grief, Loss and Other Tough Stuff 12/6 and 12/7/10 James
Caldwell High School: Parent Program: Raising Resilient Children- When Kids Cope with Transition, Stress and Loss 12/7/10
Bullying and Suicide: Webinar sponsored by the
American Association for Suicidology 12/8/10 Teens,
Grief and Violence: Family Success Center/Homefirst: Program for members of the "I Have A Dream Foundation"Coping
with Gang Violence and Homicide of Teens: in the Plainfield Community 12/9/10 Essex High School in Passaic: 12/9/10: Talking to Teens about Sudden Loss NJ Community College Counselors' Association
Conference: (NJ3C) Keynote Speaker, all day presentation: Community College Students Coping with
Grief, Loss and Other Tough Stuff, Program held at Brookdale Community College 12/10/2010 TLC The C.A.S.E. Approach to Suicide Assessment and Prevention: 12/16/10 GLSEN: Webinar: "Out in School" GLBT students speak out about what it is
to be "out" in school. 12/16/10 Somerset
County Vo-tech High School: Family Relations Class: Helping Students Cope with Loss and Grief in the Family: 12/22/10
Where
was Lisa in 2009? Wyoming Elementary School: 1/5/09 Maplewood: faculty: Children
and Grief Maplewood Rotary Club: 1/6/09
Grief in a Get Over it Society Mount Saint
Mary's School: Student Assistant Counselors and faculty: 1/7/09 James Caldwell Elementary School: faculty 1/7/09 Westfield High School: 1/8/09 freshmen health classes: Teens, Loss and Grief: ways to cope Comfort Zone Camp: Lisa took the training
to be a counselor at CZC (www.comfortzonecamp.org) Deerfield School: Millburn 1/12/09
faculty on children and grief James Caldwell
School: Springfield: 1/12, 1/13, 1/14/09 3rd, 4th and 5th grade classes on grief James Caldwell Elementary School: PTA: Supporting our grieving children Alternatives: Coping Skills Group: speaker: Raritan, 1/15/09 Prevention Links of Union County:SAC's, Counselors, Grief
in Schools 1/16/09 Madison High School: special
education, learning specialists, guidance department 1/19 Middlesex High School: Grief, Self Injury and Other Destructive Behaviors: 1/20/09 Kinnelon High School: classroom presentations to students
1/21 and 1/22/09 Edward V. Walton School:
Springfield 2nd grades 1/26 St.
James School , Springfield 1st and 7th grades 1/26 Edward V. Walton Early Elementary: parent program 1/27/09 Union County School Nurse Association: When Grief Visits the Nurses Office: What school nurses need
to know 1/26/09 Kinnelon Middle
School: entire staff 2/2/09 Edward
V.Walton Early Elementary (pre K-2nd) : Classroom presentations 2/3/09 St. James School: program for 6th-8th grade religious education class 2/3/09 (postponed due
to snow) Edward V.Walton Early Elementary:
staff training 2/4/09 Springfield Community
Conference: Grief and the Power of Community 2/5/09 Glenwood Elementary School: Millburn,when a child loses a parent 2/9/09 entire faculty Watchung Hills HS: staff in-service on grief in school
2/12/09 Union County School Nurse Association: Self
Injury and Other Destructive Behaviors 2/12/09 Catholic
Charities of Edison: social work training: 2/17/09 Center for Women: Livingston: Grief, Loss and Coping 2/18/09 Ocean County Personnel and Guidance Association: present to all of the counselors on grief in school:
2/19/09 NJHPERD: Health, Phys Ed, Rec,
Dance Annual Conference: 2/24/ 2009 session on
"teaching grief in health class" : presentation to health educators. Livingston High School: middle school and high school coaches: What Coaches Need to Know
about Grief: 3/4/09 Kinnelon High School:
freshmen health classes, 3/4 and 3/5 South
Mountain Elementary School:( Millburn) staff 3/09 South Mountain Elementary School: students: 3/10 3/11 Berkeley Heights - Parent Education Workshop: 3/16/09 Westfield High School: freshmen health classes: 3/18/09 Rainbows: Livingston parent education: divorce, death 3/23/09 Fanwood -Scotch Plains YMCA: staff training on grief and loss: 3/24/09 Middlesex High School: Topic: When a Parent Is Ill 3/25/09 Summit Elementary Schools: K-5 staff in-service training
3/30/09 Jonathan Dayton High School: health
classes for juniors in high school 3/31/09 Contact
We Care:crisis hot-line: present 3 hours for a section of the volunteer training : handling grief related
calls, 4/1/09 Movin' On: Glen Rock Jewish
Center: Widows and Widowers Support Group: Grief and Loss after the loss of a spouse 4/2/09 Home First: serving homeless families in NJ Staff
Training: Grief and Loss: 4/9/09 Home
First: 6 week grief support group: for homefirst clients 4/16/09- 5/20/09 Kean University - NJ School Counselors Association Conference
4/17/09: What School Counselors Need to Know about Grieving Students and Staff. Children dealing with
illness, death, divorce, abandonment and other losses. Lisa keynote speaker Kinnelon Health Fair: school program 4/21/09 Essex County Traumatic Loss Coalition for Children: Youth and Grief: 4/23/09 Home First: 6 Week Group: Dealing with Loss 4/22 Beyond Survival: Empowering Female Trauma Victims: 4/24 Family Service
Bureau of Newark: Lisa attending this program Hospice
Foundation of America: Telecast on diversity and grief: local panelist at Robert Wood Johnson: 4/29/09 HomeFirst: Grief Group 4/30/09 Farleigh Dickenson University: Spoke to students: Grief and the College Student: 4/30/09 Holy Spirit Widows/Divorced Group: 4/30/09 Union:
members of support group Ocean County Counselors
Conference: key note and break out session: Children's Grief in 3-D: dealing with death, divorce or desertion
5/1/09 grief and loss Rainbows:
parent education, (program for families dealing with divorce, death or abandonment) Livingston 5/4/09 Sunrise of Madison: Assisted Living Residents 5/5/09 Roselle Park High School: Grief Support Program for students: 5/6/09
HomeFirst: 6 week Handling Life's
Losses: group 5/7/09, 5/14/09, 5/21/09 Compassionate
Friends: guest speaker: Normalizing the Grief Process in Our "Get Over it" Society, Parsippany group 5/14/09 Jonathan Dayton High School, Springfield: 5/15/09 Health class presentations
to seniors Grief, Loss and Healing:
5/15/09 Verona workshop Westfield
High School: present to sophomore students in health classes 5/18/09 Roselle Park High School: Grief and Loss 5/19/09, consulting work Overlook Hospital Palliative Care Conference for Physicians: Grief at end of life: physicians, residents,
interns, in family medicine, palliative care: 5/19/09 James Caldwell High School, Caldwell, Peer Support Group: 5/19 Facilitated a group on grief,
loss and healing West Milford High School:
wellness fair: Grief Speaks will have a table 5/28/09 Catholic Charities of Newark: School Social Workers: 5/29/09 Warren School District: Al Tomaso School: one hour presentation for parents, guardians and staff: dealing
with loss in the school community: 6/4/09 Comfort
Zone Camp: 6/5-6/7 Lisa attended as a Healing Circle Leader shadow for weekend grief support camp. Springfield Emmanuel United Methodist Church: Springfield,
Guest speaker: Maintaining Hope through Life's Losses and Transitions: 7/5/09 JALP: Camp for Youth at Risk: Parsippany Police Department: Presentation to teens
at risk about grief, losses and the importance of finding healthy ways to express losses. 7/13/09 The Children's Institute: Verona: Presentation to staff on Grief and the Special Needs Student.
Also presented at the Parent Support Group on the topic of "How to Talk to Special Needs Children about Grief and
Loss". 7/13/09 Sunrise Assisted
Living of Westfield: 8/2/09 "Moving through Transition" Belleville School District: Professional Development Institute: Summer: What Educators Need to Know
about Grief:Deliver a fifteen hour grief and loss training to school staff over a three day period. Covering such
topics as: When parents die, divorce, leave, get ill, dealing with moving, illness, and other losses, in addition to supporting
grieving staff and students. 8/11-8/13 Grief, Trauma
and PTSD: J. Eric Gentry Pesi Program: 8/14/09
Lisa attending Overlook Hospital: Grand Rounds for Pediatricians: What Physicians Need to Know about Grief: August
20,09 Morristown Memorial Hospital: Grand Rounds for Pediatricians: What Physicians Need to Know about Grief: August
21,09 Valerie Fund: Facilitate Monthly Self Care Groups for Physicians at Newark Beth Israel Children's Medical Center,
St. Barnabas and Monmouth Medical Center (September -December 09) New Theories of Grief: Going Beyond Kubler-Ross
: Webinar 9/16/09 ADEC (Assoc. of Death Educ and Counseling) Jonathan Dayton High School (Springfield)
Freshmen Health Classes: Healthy Ways to Cope with Loss: 9/21/09 Prevention Links: Union County: Teens and Addiction to Prescription
Drugs : meeting Atlantic
Health Hospice: Hospice and the Family: Talking to Children about Death and Dying: program
for staff, volunteers and conference presenter Fall 2009 Traumatic Loss Coalition of Middlesex
County: Lisa attending, 9/25/09 Exploring
the Art of "Companioning" the Mourner by Dr. Alan D. Wolfelt: 9/28/09 Cherry Hill (Lisa
attending) Lacourdia High School, Classroom presentations
for 9th-12th on grief and loss, Upper Montclair 9/30/09 Sticks and Stones: Cyberbullying Program
at Verona High School: Lisa attending this workshop 10/2/09 Contact We Care: Two day Suicide Prevention
Training: Lisa taking this class 10/3 and 10/4 Parsippany Troy Hills: Parent Program 10/6/09 K - 8; staff program Westfield
High School: Classroom presentations 9th and 12th: 10/7/09 8 Freshmen Health Classes on Teen Grief Traumatic
Loss Coalition for Youth: Union County Meeting: Living with Mental Illness, Lisa attending 10/8/09 Belleville High School: Supporting Grieving Students: Counselors and Special Services, Professional
Development 10/9/09 Teaneck
Board of Education: Program for School Counselors in Teaneck, 10/12/09 Professional Development Brain Injury Association of NJ, Inc. Brain Injury Basics for Parents and School Professionals at
Kean University, Lisa attended 10/13/09 2 hour program on brain injury. Identification, understanding and responding to special
needs of these students. Westfield
High School: 7 Health Classes, seniors Teens Coping with Loss, Grief and Transitions 10/14/09 Traumatic Loss Coalition for Youth of Essex County :meeting: Mental Illness and Loss 10/15/09 Children's Specialized Hospital: Program
for Parents : "Coping with Grief" TBA Out of Darkness Walk: Suicide prevention walk. Community Walks annually. 5K Saddle Brook: 10/18/09 Bergen County School Nurse Association: 10/19/09 Beyond Band-aids: What
School Nurses Need to Know about Grief, Wood-Ridge New Jersey School Counselor Association (NJSCA)Annual Fall Conference:
Breakout session: "When Parents Leave Children Behind: Death, Divorce, Incarceration and Abandonment"
West Long Branch, NJ 10/19/09 10:15-12:30 Morris County School Nurse Association: 10/22/09: What School Nurses Need to Know about Grief: Rockaway Kean
University: Graduate Student Assistant Professionals: What SAP's Need to Know about Grief: 10/24/09 Rainbows
of Essex County: Speaking to Parents dealing with divorce and death, 10/26/09 Livingston St.
Josephs School in Mendham: Parent Program: How to support your grieving children, when a classmate's parent dies 10/26/09 Valerie Center: St. Barnabas Medical Center,
Livingston, Grief Support Program for Staff: 10/28/09 Contact We Care: Deliver a 3 hr Training on speaking to Grieving Callers: for hot-line volunteers: Grief
Calls: 10/28/09 Traumatic Loss Coalition for Youth: Middlesex County: Lisa attending 10/30/09 Psychological
First Aid during a Disaster: Lisa attending , 11/2/09 Pequonnack High School: Freshmen health classes :Teens coping with transition and loss 11/3/09 Fairleigh
Dickenson University: Graduate Class for SAC's: What Student Assistant Counselors Need to Know about Grief 11/3/09 Valerie
Center Program: Facilitate staff group, Coping with Grief at Work, Monmouth Medical Center, 11/6/09 Delbarton
School, Mendham 2 hour Staff Development Program: Guidance Counselors 11/10/09 Traumatic Loss Coalition of Essex County, Lead Response Team Meeting, 11/11/09 Rahway
School: Grover Cleveland Elementary School: Helping Pre-Schoolers with Loss: Parent Program 11/13 Springfield
Girl Scout Troop: 8th graders: Cyberbullying: What Teens Need to Know 11/13/09 Monmouth County School Nurse Association: Grieving Students: Many
trips to the nurse's office 11/16/09 7th Annual Youth Suicide Prevention Conference: -Ethno-cultural Variables
in Youth Suicide: African American- Asian-and Latino Perspectives : Somerset: Lisa attending this program 11/17/09 Association of Death Education: Webinar: Helping Children
Cope with Grief by Linda Goldman 11/18/09 TLC of Union County: Lead Response Team Present on ASIST program (Applied
Strategies and Interventions in Suicide Training) 11/19/09 Middlesex Traumatic Loss Coalition Meeting: Lead Response
Team: Middlesex 11/20/09 11th Annual National Survivors of Suicide Day: by American Foundation for
Suicide Prevention, Lincroft, NJ afsp.org Seton Hall University: Guest Speaker on
Grief for Freshmen Education Majors 11/23/09 Motherless Daughters Support Group:Lisa guest speaker
on: Keeping Connected to Mom during the Holidays: 11/28/09 James Caldwell High School: West Caldwell:
9th grade student program 12/02/09 Freshmen, 12/3/09 Sophomores Watchung Hills Regional High School: Presentation
to students on Coping with Grief and Loss 12/4/09 Kinnelon High School: Health Classes, Winter
and Spring Hawthorne High School: Student presentation 1 hour to peer leaders and a class ( Sixty 10th,
11th and 12th graders) TLC of Essex County: 12/10/09: Sticks and Stones : Cyberbullying Program TLC
of Middlesex County 12/11/09 Pequannock High School: Students in 9th grade Health Classes 12/14/09 Westfield
High School: Six 9th grade presentations in health on Teens Coping with Loss and Transition 12/16 Westfield
High School: Six 12th grade presentation in health on Teens Coping with Loss and Transition 12/18 Disaster
Crisis Counselor Training: Trauma and Substance Abuse: Sayerville 12/21/09 Jefferson Township Library: Coping with Depression:
Holidays and Beyond 12/30/09
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