Laura O’Neill from Peninsula Dispute Resolution Center advised today that there is another traning coming up in April. The cost of the 40 hour training is $495.00 per attendee and a total of 36 CLE credits will be awarded to any who attend.
The program is scheduled for April 16, 17, 18, 23, 24 and 25. The program will be in Sequim. You can check the website at PDRC.org to view the flyer for additional details such as hours, location and registration information.
Ms. O’Neill also indicated that she is working on a program targeted at attorneys which will have an evening schedule over a number of weeks. If you are interested in a program in the evening, you may want to express your interest directly to her.
Dear Bar Members:
The bar lunch on April 3, 2009, does not have a scheduled speaker and will instead focus around the topic of the scholarship notebooks for this year. Due to the lack of a speaker, the only fee associated with this meeting, is the cost of the food.
Date: April 3, 2009, at noon
Place: Soho Asian Bistro (134 W. Front Street)
Lunch is $13.00 (which includes tip)
Carol Mortensen, President
Attachement and the Foster Child
Randi Hankins, noted speaker on the dominant approach to childhood attachment theory, will be presenting on March 25, 2009, at the Port Angeles, WA, DCFS office at 201 W. 1st Street, from 9-4. There is no cost for this seminar.
Topics include:
- Trauma and its impact
- How trauma and attachment problems impact behavior
- Running away, power struggles, defiant behavior
- Real tools for caregives
- Strategies to improve behavior and attachment
- Parenting skills
To register, email Bill Todd
“Although not without its critics, attachment theory has been described as the dominant approach to understanding early social development and to have given rise to a great surge of empirical research into the formation of children’s close relationships.[17] As it is presently formulated and used for research purposes, Bowlby’s attachment theory stresses the following important tenets: 1) children between 6 and about 30 months are very likely to form emotional attachments to familiar caregivers, especially if the adults are sensitive and responsive to child communications. 2) The emotional attachments of young children are shown behaviorally in their preferences for particular familiar people, their tendency to seek proximity to those people, especially in times of distress, and their ability to use the familiar adults as a secure base from which to explore the environment. 3) The formation of emotional attachments contributes to the foundation of later emotional and personality development, and the type of behavior toward familiar adults shown by toddlers has some continuity with the social behaviors they will show later in life. 4) Events that interfere with attachment, such as abrupt separation of the toddler from familiar people or the significant inability of carers to be sensitive, responsive or consistent in their interactions, have short-term and possible long-term negative impacts on the child’s emotional and cognitive life.”
From Wikipedia.com,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bowlby#The_.22Attachment_and_Loss.22_trilogy
The Children & Families Experiencing Domestic Violence Conference on March 25th at South Seattle Community College is an opportunity for professionals and community members to learn more about how domestic violence affects the families in your community. The Conference is planned around four main themes including:
Primary Prevention
Engaging and Working with Domestic Violence Perpetrators as Parents
Supporting the Needs of Domestic Violence Survivors and their Children
Working with Maltreated Children and their Families in Court Dependency Processes
Conference presenters are some of the best in the domestic violence field from across the country. Three nationally known presenters include: Larry Cohen, Executive Director and Founder of the Prevention Institute; Professor Jeffrey Edleson, University of Minnesota; and Anne Ganley, University of Washington PLUS 18 additional speakers from the Puget Sound area will present. Laura Porter, Staff Director of the Family Policy Council, will present on The Dynamics of Thriving in Washington State!
The Conference fee of $55 includes all materials, continental breakfast and lunch with registration before March 23rd (registration increases to $75 on March 23rd). A brochure is attached to this email for you to check out.
To register simply log onto http://www.skccn.com/ChildDVconf.asp and click on the registration button. You will be able to view the full agenda plus speaker bios. Registration is by purchase order or credit card. Special arrangements for checks can be made by contacting conference coordinator, Dianne Heide, at dheide@skccn.com.
Mark Baumann, Port Angeles, Washington, attorney, has been elected to a 3 year term on the Washington State Bar Association’s Alternative Dispute Resolution executive committee.
Teresa Neudorfer, Sequim, Washington, attorney has been elected to the Washington State Bar Association Family Law section executive committee, for a 3 year term.
Dear Bar Members:
Our next meeting is March 20, 2009, at noon. We meet at Soho Asian Bistro where the lunch is $13.00 (which includes tip). Please confirm your attendance by Friday, 3/13/09, if at all possible so we can advise Soho of the number of expected attendees.
We are having a CLE on 3/20/09 with an expectation of some kind of nifty electronics (The First 30 Words by R. Craig Smith). Please make best efforts to plan on being present.
The following issues were discussed on March 6, 2009:
Law Tech Letter: Kathleen McCormick will be drafting a letter for review. Once in draft form, it will be circulated through the Bar email for review, revision & responses. We have a deadline for presentation to the Supreme Court so that will be included.
Yellow Pages: The yellow pages issue will not be pursued further.
Scholarship Notebooks: We will either obtain information from Sequim Schools or turn to PA Schools if they do not respond. The plan is to give at the same level and number as last year.
Training Proposals: Please feel free to volunteer yourself or others.
Law Day: We are checking into possible locations. Sal Mungia will speak. Expect more details shortly.
Thanks,
Carol M.
2009 Pres