Trainings/Conferences
for 2010 
The 4th Annual Liberation-Based Conference
Friday-Saturday, Oct. 16-17
This conference brings together therapists, community organizers, educators, faith communities, and activists to learn and develop clinically and theoretically sound interventions and stategies that promote family and community healing. Understanding contemporary socio-political contexts and engaging community partners is emphasized throughout the innovative workshops. Nationally
acclaimed presenters partner with community activists to deliver liberation-based strategies and facilitate dialogue to bolster resilience and promote socal justice and equity. Click here for more information.
INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY SERIVCES TWO YEAR POST-GRADUATE TRAINING
Transformative Family Therapy: A Social Justice Community Healing Paradigm
This two year training internship is based upon requirements of the Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT). The total number of 960 hours of training provides advanced scholarship in conceptualization and change practices. It also creates eligibility for membership in AAMFT and provides necessary licensure hours for clinical social workers and marriage and family therapists.
Trainees will be exposed to nationally renowned scholars in the field of Family Therapy and Liberation based paradigms.
The following are goals and objectives of the training internship:
1. Trainees will be exposed to best practices in liberation –based healing paradigms.
2. Emphasis will be on the Cultural Context Model: A liberation based community paradigm that is centered on cultural equity and Intersectionality.
3. Trainees will have the opportunity to work with diverse and multi-problem and multi-form families. This will include specialized work with men, women, children of all ages, and members of the glbt community.
4. Trainees receive live weekly supervision and have the opportunity to observe senior faculty at work.
5. Trainees will be mentored into greater visibility in the professional sphere through presentations and publications with faculty.
6. Training includes a combination of didactic and experiential learning.
COST: $6000.00 EACH YEAR
DAYS and TIME OF TRAINING: Tuesdays – 3:30-9:30 and Thursdays 5-7:30
LOCATION: 3 Clyde Road Suite 101, Somerset, NJ
Trainings:
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The Institute for Family Services offers the Cultural Context Model (CCM) for individuals and families with Rhea V. Almeida and colleagues.
Embrace your potential and
expand your professional options
as a social justice therapist! |
100-hour training in the Cultural Context Model
- Offers you a practical, hands-on approach to integrate the principles of social justice into your own clinical contexts.
- Equips you with all of the tools – conceptual and clinical – to move clients from oppression to liberation.
- Teaches you to make deep therapeutic interventions while fostering community and social justice.
- Gathers hours towards licensure.
- Earns a certificate in the Cultural Context Model – Social Justice Therapy.
The training consists of three segments of four days each.
DATES: June 12-14, September 11-13
Please submit $300.00 by May 16th, 2009 to register for the training .
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If
you would like to learn more about working with the Institute
for Family Services,
please call us at 732-873-1663 or
e-mail us at WeCare4UIFS@aol.com.
Institute
for Family Services, 3 Clyde Road, Suite 101, Somerset, NJ 08873
