Join us for our annual Day of Service as we give back to our Washington DC community! We will be teaming up with Unifi and giving away food and backpacks in preparation for the upcoming school year to help individuals and families in need during this trying time. This event will be taking place in The Hive 2.0, which can be found in the basement of the Anacostia Arts Center.  (Sign up will be in 10 min increments to respect social distancing guidelines). 

Lori Hough, LCSW will provide attendees with the tools to provide virtual trauma-informed care. Participants can expect to learn to be: Educated about the ACES study and be able to recognize 5 questions related to identifying trauma in a client; able to identify 4 mental health disorders that may result from trauma; able to identify 3 treatment modalities to utilize when working with trauma patients; able to identify 3 ways to deal with trauma via telehealth delivery; and able to describe 3 principles to focus on when working with trauma.    

This training is part of a series of trainings under the Enhancing the District’s Response to Trauma (EDRT) project—an initiative developed under a partnership between The District of Columbia Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants (OVSJG) and Give an Hour-and is intended to provide mental health clinicians and others on the front lines who work with survivors of trauma and victims of crime with the tools to avoid further trauma for their clients.

Criminal justice advocates and practitioners work with clients every day who have had close encounters with law enforcement -- but do clients know their rights? When is it okay for police to stop someone? When can police make an arrest, conduct a search, or interrogate someone? Cynthia Jones will unpack these processes around arrests and sentencing, what clients' rights are, and special considerations for women in this phase of the justice system.