The Wedgwood Institute, Lifelong Learning

Introduction

Wedgwood’s passion for and expertise in serving children and youth is the motivation behind the creation of The Wedgwood Institute, Lifelong Learning. Our goal is to equip individuals with the knowledge, attitudes, and skills to bring wholeness and healing to children and youth.

A series of educational sessions and trainings was developed by a team of Wedgwood’s masters and bachelors level professionals to provide cutting-edge programming and effective treatment services. In addition, we coordinate training sessions that bring regional, statewide, and national experts in the field to Wedgwood to further enhance professional development.

We offer three different series of training sessions:

• Clinical Series
• Community Series
• Management/Leadership Series

Clinical Series

This series of trainings was envisioned with social workers and mental health clinicians in mind. Our goal is to provide state-of-the art training for all clinicians while assisting social workers in meeting their continuing education requirements for licensure.

Topics

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
Eating Disorders
Physical Confidence Therapy
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Substance Abuse Treatment/Prevention
Trauma-Informed Treatment
Sex Offender Typologies
Empowering Youth in Treatment
Play Therapy
Grief and Loss
Compassion Fatigue
Anger Management
Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Clinical Supervision
ADHD
Other

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Community Series

Wedgwood is known for their work with children and families. These trainings are geared for educators and administrators, youth pastors and directors, park district staff and coaches,
and parents who need information and skills to work with today’s children and youth.

Topics

Bullying
Stress Management
CPR/First Aid
Parenting with Love and Logic
1-2-3 Magic (for younger children)
Team Building
De-escalating an Angry Client
Compassion Fatigue
Anger Management
Sexual Abstinence
Power Struggles
Decision-making
Problem-solving
Foundations of Forgiveness
Diversity Awareness
Institute for Healing Racism
Botvin’s Life Skills
Other

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Management/Leadership Series

Middle managers and supervisors in health and human service organizations similar to Wedgwood also need assistance in assessing and building managerial/supervisory skills with their teams. We desire to work collaboratively to strengthen individual and team performance.

Topics

Retention/Recruitment of CWWorkers
Sanctuary Model Training
Change Theory and Implementation
Conflict Resolution and Problem Solving
Team Building
Communication Skills
Learning Style Inventory
DiSc
MBTI
Hiring and Supervising
Mentoring New Employees
Other

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