Healing the Generations Conference

Pat Wilcox and Steve Brown will be presenting at the week’s Healing the Generations conference (http://www.cliffordbeers.org/family-violence-and-child-trau/). The conference is co-sponsored by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation and Clifford W. Beers Guidance Clinic. They are presenting with Kay Saakvitne, PhD on Risking Connection, and separately on Healing the Hurt Brain. This conference will be This is an incredible opportunity to learn from national and regional presenters about state-of-the-art interventions and models to treat and support families and children affected by trauma. Presenters include keynote speakers Vincent Filletti, MD, a Co-Principal Investigator fo the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACES) and Dolores Subia BigFoot, PhD, Project Director of the Indian County Child Trauma Center of Oklahoma. Additional presenters include: Glen Saxe, Collaborative Treatment of Children and Adolescents; Steven Berkowitz, MD and Steve Marans, PhD of the National Center for Children Exposed to Violence and Yale Child Study Center, Roger Fallot, Clinical Psychologist and Director of Research and Evaluation at Community Connections in Washington, D.C. as well as many workshops focused family support and community based interventions. If you attend the conference, please come up and say hello!