Workshops are tailored for your specific needs and audience.

Call Lisa (973) 985-4503 to discuss her doing a presentation or assembly program for your school, business, conference, or organization. Listed are some of the topics that Lisa presents on:   

Programs for Schools

• How Schools Can Support, Nurture Resilience and Foster Healthy Connections with Students Affected by Trauma, Loss or Adverse Childhood Experiences
• Social Emotional Learning: Creating Safe Spaces, Better Relationships with Teachers and Peers and Skills to Manage Emotions for Students and Educators in order to be Successful and to Thrive at School and Work
• Creating a Positive School Climate of Acceptance: Tools and Strategies and Resources to Create a Safe Space for Learning
• Every Interaction is an Intervention: Using Social Emotional Learning to Support the Success of Students Affected by Trauma and other Adverse Childhood Experiences 
• What Adults Need to Know to Support Teens Navigating Grief, Transitions & Mental Health Issues 
  
• Suicide Prevention: Warning Signs, Interventions, Resources, Building a Safer and Connected School Climate for All, Connecting Students to Safe Adults, How to Intervene if a Friend Talks About Suicide,  
  
• LBGTQ Inclusive Schools: The importance of GSA's (Gay-Straight Alliances), Supportive Educators, LGBT Inclusive Curricula, and Comprehensive Anti-Bullying Policies  
• When Parents Leave Children Behind: Death, Divorce, Abandonment, Incarceration, Deployment: How to Help these Children Succeed
• Grief, Loss and Helpful Ways to Cope: Program for School Staff to support  the pre-schooler, elementary aged student, middle schooler and high schooler

• Technology, Grief, Suicide and Our Youth Today: The Influence of Technology on Our Children's Mental Health 
• What School Professionals Need to Know about Grieving Students  (2-3 hour interactive professional development workshop)
• ACE's (Adverse Childhood Experiences) and How Adversity Affects Student's, Educators, and Parents Ability to Respond to Challenges and Stress, Learn and Thrive
• Listening to a Grieving Student (When they want to talk or when they don't want to talk about it).
• Helping Schools Support LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) Children and Teens (School staff in-service program)
  
• Helping Families Support LGBT their Children and Teens (Parent program)
• When a Peer or Classmate Dies (helping student cope with a loss) (K-12)
  
• When a Parent at School is Dying: Parent program for answering hard questions children have and ways to support resilience and healing (K-12)
  
• Suicide Prevention Programs for Schools

Bereavement in the School-aged Child:

• How Can I Help?: When someone we care about is grieving (child, teenager or adult)
• When children's parents are incarcerated or absent from the child's life
• School Staff Grief: How to teach and work with children when the helping adults are grieving
• The Spectrum and Loss: Teachers Helping Children with Special Needs Grieve
• When a Classmate Dies: Helping Students to Grieve, mourn and remember their young classmate
  
• When a Teacher or Staff Member Dies 
• When A Parent Has Cancer or Other Illness: Supporting their Grieving Children in School
• When Parents Die: supporting staff and students
• What Teachers and School Personnel Need to Know about Grief: Self Care while caring for the school community
• The Special Needs of Grieving Children with Special Needs: How to help these students succeed 

Programs for Parents, PTO's and PTA's:

What Parents and Caregivers Need to Know about Children, Teens and Grief:

• Raising Resilient Children and Teens in Difficult Times
• Social Emotional Parenting: How Our Past Affects our Parenting and Why it Matters: How We Can Become Less Reactive Parents and Become More Responsive to Support Our Children in Today's World 
• Safeguarding Our Children While Building Success and Nurturing Resiliency
• Helping Teens Cope after a Death of a Loved One, Friend or Other Important Person 
  
• When A Parent Has Cancer or Other Illness: Supporting their Grieving Children in School
• When Parents Die: supporting staff and students
• **New** When Parents Leave Children Behind: Death, Divorce, Abandonment, Incarceration, Deployment  :How to Help these Children Succeed

What Teachers and School Personnel Need to Know to Support Students in Today's World:

• The Special Needs of Grieving Children with Special Needs: How to help these students succeed
• Social Emotional Learning: a workshop for educators and administrators to learn the elements of SEL and to create better climates in the classroom, and a safer school community to support our students
• Grief, Bullying and Cyberbullying: The impact on schools, families and students and communities
• Grief and Addictions: The Dangers of Unacknowledged and Unexpressed Grief
• Mental Health 101: When a Student May be in Need of Additional Support, Who to go to, When to seek support and How
• Grieving in our 'Get over it Society'
• Divorce, Children and Grief: Helping Children Succeed when their World is Split in Half

 What College Faculty Need to Know about Grief: 

• When a Student's Loved One Has Died: presentation for classroom, parents and guardians and staff.
• Suicide Prevention on the College Campus: Prevention, Intervention and Postvention
• Teens and Suicide (staff, parents, students)

Presentations and Assembly Programs for Students

• Coping with Grief, Loss and Other Tough Stuff  (presented to pre-K through 12th grade as well as at colleges and universities)   Can be a classroom presentation, entire grade or school assembly
• Children Coping with Transitions and Change
• Grief Stinks When You Are a Teen: How Teens Cope with Loss, Grief and Transition
• Substance Abuse, Alcohol, Cutting and other Dangerous Behaviors Won't Make Grief Go Away!
• When a Friend Dies: Teens Coping with the Death of a Friend or Peer
• Moving on to Middle School: Coping with Changes, Peer Issues, and More Responsibility
• Graduation and Transitions: What's Next and How to Cope in Healthy Ways with Changes
• College Bound Seniors: What They Need to Know about Coping, Building a Support Network and Finding and Identifying Resources for a Healthy, Happy and Successful College Career 

Programs for Hospital Professionals

What Physicians Need to Know about Grief

• What Physicians and Nurses Need to Know about Grief, Families and the Use of Technology in Supporting them through grief: (caringbridge.org, facebook, video chatting, resources,etc) 

• Beyond Band-aids and Lesson Plans: What School Nurses and Educators Need to Know about Cutting and other Self Injury
• Grief and the Developmentally Disabled 
• Grief of the Caregiver
• Grief at Work: Healing in the Workplace :Giving Permission to Professionals to Grieve
• Grief Across the Life Spectrum 

Police, Fire Departments, EMS Workers

• Police, Fire and First Aid Squads: Working with Grief : professional grief, grief of all involved at the scene, and dealing with personal grief.
• What Teenagers Should Know about Grief, Loss and Healing

Parents of Hospitalized Children

• What Happened? Coping with a Child's Hospitalization, illness, siblings, work and everything else
• Grief of Siblings When a Child is Ill
• Sharing Our Grief Together: Group that provides a supportive and safe place for parents and caregivers to talk about struggles, grief, experiences, hope and resilience, that meets in the hospital for parents coping with an ill child.