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The Pennsylvania Department of Education will be offering a live one-hour webinar on the PA Career Ready Skills, featuring Dr. Pamela Emery. The PA Career Ready Skills incorporate critical employability skills that employers seek in future employees. These social emotional learning progressions support the development of self-awareness and self-management, establishing and maintaining relationships, and problem solving. All educators are welcome to join this live training!

Representatives from the Alzheimer’s Association, the Wayne County Area Agency on Aging and Wayne Memorial will facilitate a free evening of “education and fellowship” on the topic of effective communication strategies for caregivers and patients with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. The session aims to increase awareness and access to quality dementia care in Wayne, Pike and surrounding counties. Carol Kneier, MS, RD, LDN, CDE, Wayne Memorial Community Relations manager. said the evening will focus on communication changes, decoding verbal and behavioral messages and learning how to respond, and identifying strategies to help people connect and communicate. Participants will also catalog available resources and services and discuss met and unmet needs in these areas

Youth learn and practice: ? Setting positive future goals ? Peer pressure resistance skills ? Positive management of emotions— coping with stress ? Communication skills A free, fun opportunity to strengthen family communication and promote family bonding. The program includes family games and activities, a free meal, prized childcare for younger sibling, youth skill building activities and interaction with other parents and caregivers. Parents/Caregivers learn how to help their youth: ? Transition to the teen years and adjust to middle school ? Practice decision making and life skills including stress management, peer relationships and goal setting ? Strengthen peer pressure resistance skills to avoid risks and substance use

A free, fun opportunity to strengthen family communication and promote family bonding. The program includes family games and activities, a free meal, prized childcare for younger sibling, youth skill building activities and interaction with other parents and caregivers. Youth learn and practice: ? Setting positive future goals ? Peer pressure resistance skills ? Positive management of emotions— coping with stress ? Communication skills Parents/Caregivers learn how to help their youth: ? Transition to the teen years and adjust to middle school ? Practice decision making and life skills including stress management, peer relationships and goal setting ? Strengthen peer pressure resistance skills to avoid risks and substance use

A free, fun opportunity to strengthen family communication and promote family bonding. The program includes family games and activities, a free meal, prized childcare for younger sibling, youth skill building activities and interaction with other parents and caregivers. Youth learn and practice: ? Setting positive future goals ? Peer pressure resistance skills ? Positive management of emotions— coping with stress ? Communication skills Parents/Caregivers learn how to help their youth: ? Transition to the teen years and adjust to middle school ? Practice decision making and life skills including stress management, peer relationships and goal setting ? Strengthen peer pressure resistance skills to avoid risks and substance use

Attendees will create handmade prints. If you think you’re not creative, think again. Printmaking is fun, full of surprises, and is guaranteed to bring out the artist within you. The workshop will be fun, meaningful, and we will explore the external world of inks, paper and stencils, as well as the internal world of creativity and the fear of not being good enough. Joe Crookston will play and sing. All materials are included. You will leave with at least 2-3 images matted in sleeves ready for gift giving.

Songwriter, guitarist, painter, fiddler, slide player, eco-village member, and believer of all things possible, Joe Crookston, performs at The Cooperage. Named 2016 Folk Alliance International Artist-in-Residence, Joe Crookston has played with Suzanne Vega, Dar Williams, David Francey, John McCutcheon, John Gorka, Judy Collins and hundreds more.

The group addresses the common stressors associated with high school in order to decrease symptoms of anxiety and/or depression open to all female patients in grades 9 through 12. Co-facilitated by Katherine Szymanski, LSW, CAADC and Michelle Brown, LCSW, CAADC

Join Honesdale Behavioral Health, part of the Wayne Memorial Community Health Centers, for a series of sessions for adults to use the expressive arts to discover, heal and find meaning. Co-facilitated by Dorothy Waline, LCSW, and Hilary Cousins, LCSW.

Learn various relaxation, meditation, and mindfulness techniques in order to reduce feelings of stress, worry and anxiety. Co-facilitated by Amanda Vitali, LPC and Michelle Brown, LCSW, CAADC

Lorenzo Cascia of Wells Fargo Bank presents a seminar covering completing of the FAFSA applications, applying for scholarships, estimating total costs, determining if you will need additional money and exploring additional financial options.

Thisanger management group will run in an eight week rotation. Written proof of completion may be given to those who request this for any reason. The sessions are co-facilitated by Michelle Brown, LCSW, CAADC, and Samantha Burkhardt, LPC.

This presentation will walk your business owner clients through some of the concerns they may have in planning for the continuation or disposition of their business interests and estate taxes. The presentation will also look at some of the things that might be considered to alleviate business owner concerns. Particular topics discussed include: types of assets and property, forms of businesses and tax implications, valuing your business, buy-sell agreements, and wills, trusts and gifts.

Understanding the foundations of various financial concepts is critical to a person’s long-term financial well-being. This non-branded presentation provides a high level overview of five common financial topics, all brought together into a single session: Saving, Investing, Protecting, Retiring and Estate Planning. Topics like compound interest, asset allocation, various insurance types, retirement income and estate planning tools are all included. At end of discussion, audiences should have enough knowledge to understand financial basics. This presentation was created in response for advisor’s need to have a one-time presentation for use with select audiences, and not part of an ongoing employee education series.

This group provide support and resources for the LGBTQ Community with an eight-week curriculum for adults, age 18 and older. Sessions focus on identifying and discussing coping skills; building a community of trust and connectedness; sharing strength, hope and experiences; family involvement and support; peer support; and community resources. The group is facilitated by Samantha Burkhardt, LPC, and Kirsten Havira, LPC.

The eight-week program will also provide free nicotine replacement therapy—patches, gum, lozenges – for one month to participants. It’s presented by the PA Area Health Education Center and Wayne Memorial’s Community Relations Department with funding from the American Lung Association. The clinic will also examine medications that can increase your success, lifestyle changes to make quitting easier, how to prepare for your “quit day,” coping strategies for managing stress and avoiding weight gain and how to stay smoke-free for good.

Learn various relaxation, meditation, and mindfulness techniques in order to reduce feelings of stress, worry and anxiety. Co-facilitated by Amanda Vitali, LPC and Michelle Brown, LCSW, CAADC

One-on-one evaluation of career marketing materials

The Wayne County Commissioners' meeting in public voting session.

Sessions will focus on the many psychological benefits of music, healing through music and using music to cope with stress and overwhelming emotions. Participants will create and express themselves in music and dance, finding strength and purpose, and building connections. Open to patients age 18 and older. Group facilitated by Tim Gladson, LPC, and Kirsten Havira, LPC.

A therapy group providing support and resources and focusing on important issues of early recovery from substance abuse, such as triggers, relapse process and prevention, self-help support groups like AA, NA etc., mindfulness, resentments, family dynamics in early recovery and emotional regulation.