MCB Calendar

Title of workshop: Virtual St. Louis Alliance for Reentry(STAR) Summit – Rethinking
Reentry: Staying Solution Focused

Location: Online via Zoom Webinar
Date(s): April 14th, 21st and 28th Time: 9:00 am – 11:30 am
Contact Hours: 6                               Cost:Free

Agency: Area Resources for Community and Human Services(ARCHS)

Contact Person: Les Johnson, Vice President        Phone:314-289-5605
Fax: 314-534-0055 

Email: johnsonl@stlarchs.org

Address: 539 N Grand Blvd, 6th Floor, St. Louis, MO 63103
Web Site: www.stlarchs.org

Presenter(s)&Credential(s):
Debbie Allen, Executive Advisor to the Mayor for the city of St. Louis
Wilford Pinkney, Director of Children, Youth and Families for St. Louis City
Shawntelle Fisher, Founder and CEO of the SoulFisher Ministries
Tydrell Stevens, Director, Urban League of Metropolitan Saint Louis, Inc.
Esther Williams-Henderson, Assistant Vice President, MERS Goodwill

General description of training:
This year’s 2021 STAR Summit will be held virtually in April. Sessions willoccur 9:00 am – 11:30 am on April 14th, 21st and 28th. Attendees will beinformed that they must attend all three sessions, live, to receive credit. Ourannual summit engages a broad audience of more than 150 stakeholders, includingjustice involved individuals, faith/community based organizations, communitycorrections staff and government agencies. Last year, we sold out our physicalspace before having to cancel due to COVID-19. This year’s theme is “RethinkingReentry:  Staying Solution Focused”. Ourfocus this year will allow us to take a fresh look at some innovativeapproaches to address the needs of justice involved individuals at thecommunity level, to identify gaps and opportunities for launching newstrategies. More importantly, this is an opportunity to identify solutions.Presentations will be presented by subject matter experts to includes topicssuch as mental health, solutions to modern day obstacles when it comes to reentry, and addressing the need for job skills, among others.

Title of workshop: Virtual St. Louis Alliance for Reentry(STAR) Summit – Rethinking
Reentry: Staying Solution Focused

Location: Online via Zoom Webinar
Date(s): April 14th, 21st and 28th Time: 9:00 am – 11:30 am
Contact Hours: 6                               Cost:Free

Agency: Area Resources for Community and Human Services(ARCHS)

Contact Person: Les Johnson, Vice President        Phone:314-289-5605
Fax: 314-534-0055 

Email: johnsonl@stlarchs.org

Address: 539 N Grand Blvd, 6th Floor, St. Louis, MO 63103
Web Site: www.stlarchs.org

Presenter(s)&Credential(s):
Debbie Allen, Executive Advisor to the Mayor for the city of St. Louis
Wilford Pinkney, Director of Children, Youth and Families for St. Louis City
Shawntelle Fisher, Founder and CEO of the SoulFisher Ministries
Tydrell Stevens, Director, Urban League of Metropolitan Saint Louis, Inc.
Esther Williams-Henderson, Assistant Vice President, MERS Goodwill

General description of training:
This year’s 2021 STAR Summit will be held virtually in April. Sessions willoccur 9:00 am – 11:30 am on April 14th, 21st and 28th. Attendees will beinformed that they must attend all three sessions, live, to receive credit. Ourannual summit engages a broad audience of more than 150 stakeholders, includingjustice involved individuals, faith/community based organizations, communitycorrections staff and government agencies. Last year, we sold out our physicalspace before having to cancel due to COVID-19. This year’s theme is “RethinkingReentry:  Staying Solution Focused”. Ourfocus this year will allow us to take a fresh look at some innovativeapproaches to address the needs of justice involved individuals at thecommunity level, to identify gaps and opportunities for launching newstrategies. More importantly, this is an opportunity to identify solutions.Presentations will be presented by subject matter experts to includes topicssuch as mental health, solutions to modern day obstacles when it comes to reentry, and addressing the need for job skills, among others.

Title of workshop:  Mindfulness for Health & Wellbeing: An8-Week Online Course

Location:  Online Zoom Meeting Date(s):  4/1/2020 – 5/20/2020, 8 consecutive Wednesdayevenings

Time:  7:00-8:00pm      

Contact Hours:  8         Cost:$400 - 30% professional discount = $280 (use Coupon Code PROF at checkout)

Agency:  The Center for Mindfulness & CBT 

Contact Person:  Laura Chackes                       Phone:  314-561-9757 ext. 701

Fax: 314-561-9050      Email:  Lchackes@mindfulstl.com

Web Site: https://www.mindfulstlonline.com/mindfulness-course

Presenter(s)&Credential(s):Laura Chackes, Psy.D., Licensed Psychologist and Owner of The Center forMindfulness & CBT, has been in practice as a clinical  psychologist for over 13 years, doingprimarily CBT with individuals, families, and groups with depression, anxiety,and related disorders.  Dr. Chackesco-developed the MBCT program at Clayton Behavioral in 2013, and has beenteaching Mindfulness & MBCT courses consistently since then.

Andy Conrad, MA, PLPC, NCC,Provisionally Licensed Professional Counselor at The Center for Mindfulness& CBT. Any has been practicing mindfulness personally for several years,and regularly incorporates it into his individual therapy sessions with hisclients. Andy has co-lead the MBCT course with Dr. Chackes for the past year.

General description of training:

This training is based on the evidence-basedMindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) course. It will begin with thefundamentals of mindfulness, and thoroughly teach applications of mindfulnessfor reducing depression, anxiety, and other unwanted mood states.  Participants will engage in experientialexercises each week that progress more deeply into the ways that mindfulnesshelps alleviate symptoms through awareness and acceptance.  Participants will learn how to recognizethoughts, emotions, and physical sensations that lead to depression andanxiety, and how aversion to these reinforces the disorders.  By experiencing the changes that mindfulnesscan make in yourself, you will then be able to teach it to your clients.  Each week you will receive an audio file of adifferent meditation, as well as several handouts and articles.  Participants will be a mixture of counselorsand other healthcare professionals, as well as others from the general publicwho are wanting help managing their depression, anxiety, or stress.  While gaining these valuable therapeutic tools,you will also be practicing self-care, which is so vital for those in thehelping fields.