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Parenting Class: Promoting First Relationships

When: January 20th- March 10th, Friday 10:00-11:30 p.m.

Where: First Step Family Support Center, 325 E. 6th Street, Port Angeles, WA

This is a FREE parenting education series to help you enhance the most important relationship your child has- the one with YOU!

Sign up if you would like to build a stronger bond with your child, learn your baby’s cues, and learn more about your baby’s social and emotional development. This is a one credit course through Peninsula College. There is no fee.

For more information or to register for the class, call or text Kelsi at (360) 912-2248.

Parenting Class: Play and Learn

When:
Parents of infants and toddlers: 9:00-10:30 a.m.
Parents of pre-schoolers: 11:00-12:30 p.m.

Where: First Step, 323 E. 6th Street, Port Angeles, WA

Infants and Toddlers:
This play group will serve primarily infants and toddlers and their parents and/or caregivers. Babies and toddlers learn through playtime, story time, games and music activities with thier loved ones. January 4th-March 15th.
(This class is worth one credit through Peninsula College)

Pre-Schoolers:
This play group will serve preschool age children and their parents and/or caregivers. Age appropriate learning activities are provided through art, music, song and dance, circle and story time, literacy, science and many more opportunities for families to work hands on together. January 4th-March 15th.
(This class is worth one credit through Peninsula College)

Contact Kelsi at 912-2248 for more information.

Bar Social Hour

When: February 17th from 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Where: Kokopelli’s upstairs bar

CLE: I-1864 Affidavit of Support

When: January 20, 2017 at 12:00 p.m.
Where: Kokopelli Downstairs
Topic: The I-1864 Affidavit of Support – Why your client has to pay spousal maintenance forever with Greg McLawsen

(CLE credit pending)

Upcoming Pro Bono Clinics

Clallam County Advance Directives Clinic
When: January 14th Noon-3:00
Where: Landing Mall in Port Angeles

Jefferson County Advance Directives Clinic
When: January 28th Noon-3:00
Where: Senior Center in Port Townsend

Clallam County Wills Clinic
When: February 11th Noon-3:00
Where: Landing Mall in Port Angeles

Jefferson County Wills Clinic
When: February 25th Noon-3:00
Where: Senior Center in Port Townsend

West End Clinic March 18th time and location to be determined .

Volunteer attorneys will provide and assist with completing advance directive forms including a power of attorney for finances, power of attorney for medical and a health care directive. Drop-in clinics are geared to help those who are financially unable to otherwise access an attorney but is open to all those who show up. Attorney volunteers will be available from Noon until 3 p.m. to answer legal questions and assist with advance directive forms and notaries will be on site.

Volunteers needed. To volunteer please contact Shauna at [email protected]

Law At The Landing

When: Saturday, December 3, Noon-3 p.m.
Where: The Landing Mall, 115 E Railroad Ave, Port Angeles, WA 98362

The upcoming Pro Bono drop in clinics are:
January 14 (advanced directives clinic)
February 11 (wills clinic)
March 18 (west end clinic)

Webinar with Dr. Tina Payne Bryson on No Drama Discipline

Please join the staff at the law office of Mark Baumann to watch a webinar with Dr. Tina Payne Bryson: Going Against the Grain When it Comes to Changing Problematic Behavior: An IPNB approach to shifting the culture of parenting, education and clinical practice.

Dr. Payne Bryson co-authored the parenting books The Whole Brain Child and No Drama Discipline with Dr. Daniel Siegel who is a child psychiatrist, developer of the field of Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB), and author of numerous other books. These practical and parent-focused parenting books are based on IPNB foundational fields such as attachment, human development, neuroscience, biology, and physiology.

The webinar is hosted by the Global Association for Interpersonal Neurobiology Studies (GAINS), http://mindgains.org.

Feel free to bring your own lunch and join us for a post-webinar discussion/sharing about attachment and attachment-based parenting techniques. Mark Baumann, J.D., has completed one-year trainings in the attachment measures the Strange Situation Protocol (SSP) and the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI), has a graduate certificate in Interpersonal Neurobiology, and he uses the concepts from attachment and IPNB in his family law practice on a daily basis. Mark frequently utilizes The Whole Brain Child as a workbook to help his clients enhance their parenting skills, and has incorporated it into his Targeted Integrative Parenting Strategies (TIPS) coaching model for therapists and parenting professionals working with divorcing clients in high conflict cases.

Who should come: Lawyers, therapists, parenting professionals, GAL’s, educators
Where: Law office of Mark Baumann, 1337 W. 5th Street, Port Angeles WA
When: Webinar, Monday, December 5, 2016, 11:00 a.m. to noon. Post webinar discussion, noon to 1:00 p.m.
Price: Free
RSVP to office @ markbaumann.com (delete spaces before and after @ symbol), space is limited
No CLE/CE, no host, yes coffee and water, yes fun
(Lawyers may be able to get CLE credit applying on their own, the form to apply for approval of a CLE activity is available at this page: http://wsba.org/Licensing-and-Lawyer-Conduct/MCLE/Members)

Pro Bono Week Luncheon

October 23-29 is national Celebrate Pro Bono week, and members of the early boards of the Clallam Jefferson County Pro Bono Lawyers (CJCPBL) would like to invite all legal professionals to join us for lunch on Thursday, October 27, 2016. Gary Williams, Clallam County pro bono organization founder, will be joining us.

RSVP: If you can let us know you are coming, we can better adjust the dining layout.
When: Thursday, October 27, 2016
Time: Noon to 1:00
Where: Kokopelli’s restaurant
No host, no cost, no CLE, good fun

Please RSVP to Mark Baumann

Internet/Social Media Safety & Digital Literacy for Parents

When: Wednesday, November 2, 2016, 6:00pm-8:00pm
Where: Sequim High School Auditorium

Internationally recognized safety expert and speaker Darren Laur is coming to Sequim! Don’t miss the chance to hear his presentation and learn ways to help keep your children safe while using the Internet and Social Networking. Parents of Teens, Tweens, Younger Children and Interested Community Members are welcome to attend!

Topics to be covered include:

• The Internet and Social Networking
• What our kids are doing on-line
• Chatrooms, Ims, SMS/MMS and how to stay safer using them
• Cellphone/smartphone and webcam safety
• How students are placing their privacy at risk on-line
• Your “digital dossier” and how to protect it
• How to secure your Social Network
• Understanding everything you post online is public, permanent and searchable
• Dangers of screen names and profiles
• Digital peer aggression and what can be done to stop it
• Sexting, its consequences, and what can be done to stop it
• The law specific to texting and digital peer agression
• Social engineering and how students are falling prey to this vulnerability
• When to be concerned as a parent
• Internet filtering pros/cons
• The threats of internet pornography
• Steps to keep kids safe online
• Plus a whole lot more…!

Darren Laur, co-ownerand head instructor of Personal Protection Systems, Inc. Is an internationally recognized safety expert, published award winning author, and highly sought after speaker. Darren is deeply immersed in social media and has taught digital safety for the past 12 years.

Sponsored by: Prevention Works! A Community Coalition of Clallam County