In addition to sharing valuable insights, Nancy’s conversational tone and ability to show vulnerability in her practice brings her listeners in, creates a space for empathy and learning, and inspires us to connect at a deeper level with more people. And, one hopes, we will all make a bigger impact because of that.
”School Mental Health Course
Dr. Rappaport is available to speak or conduct longer workshops upon request on topics including the following:
- The Behavior Code: Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students
- Resilience: Understanding and Teaching Challenging Children Without Burnout
- Compassion, Burnout, and Empathic Fatigue: Building Resilience in Our Patients and Ourselves
- “Is This Student Safe to Return?” A Comprehensive School Safety Assessment Approach
- After a Suicide: Helping Children Heal
- Teen Depression: What Parents, Schools, and Communities Can Do
- Finding Our Way: Healing Our Traumatized Children
- The Power of Reflection: The Role of Narrative in Medicine
Upcoming Events
Keeping Our Schools Safe: A Safety Assessment Approach
Clinical Consultation Breakfast: Engaging Students and Supporting Educators in Schools: Learning through Case Discussion
Clinical Consultation Breakfast: Family is the Best Medicine: Strengthening Family Therapy Skills to Support Children in Crisis
Personal Experiences of Safety Assessment: Student and Family Voices
Dr. Rappaport will present Personal Experiences of Safety Assessment: Student and Family Voices as part of a Clinical Perspectives presentation: Impulsive Behavior or Legitimate Warning?: Preventing, Assessing, and Responding to Student Threats.
Resilience in an Uncertain Time: Supporting Students and Families During the Pandemic
Registration information coming soon!
During this time of uncertainty and change, adults who work with children and families are rising to the challenge of finding new ways to connect with them, offering practical strategies for coping and thriving, and providing comfort and consistency – all while trying to care for themselves and their own families. Dr. Rappaport will share more practical concepts and tools that educators and social workers can use: maintaining connections, finding contributory activities, communicating in age-appropriate ways, validating questions and worries, balancing structure and rigidity, and supporting those with a history of trauma and challenging home lives. Her suggestions will be based on her many years of clinical experience and experience translating psychiatric concepts into easy actionable steps for educators and families. She will also discuss how taking care of ourselves and building our own resilience allows us to better continue to support children and families and allows us to boost our, and their, capacity to endure and perhaps even thrive.
Webinar series: Beyond the threat: How to tip the balance toward safety in schools while considering the needs and challenges of individual students
Registration information coming soon!
September 18, October 2 and 16, November 13, and December 4, 2020
In this 10-hour webinar series, Dr. Nancy Rappaport (and several guest experts) will deepen our understanding of how to respond to students with threatening behavior in substantial ways. She’ll also help us explore the necessary cultural changes we need to make in order to effectively support students and keep our communities safe and connected.
Questions to be considered:
- How do we as educators/clinicians build relationships with dysregulated kids?
- How do we teach schools about the impact of structural racism and implicit bias which impact student achievement?
- How do we support the patterns of kids on the spectrum who are perseverative on violent themes or who express themselves in provocative ways?
- How do we appropriately implement safety assessments and build a culture of safety?
Previous Events
Finding our Way - Healing our Traumatized Children
708 Kurn Hattin Road Westminster VT
Strengthen Your District Crisis Preparedness With a Safety Assessment Team
141 Mansion Dr., East Walpole MA
TEC is partnering with Dr. Nancy Rappaport to offer a year long Professional Development opportunity designed to leverage your in-district capacity to keep potential violence from becoming real by establishing a Safety Assessment Team and implementing a formal framework of threat assessment and intervention.
Your team will learn from expert speakers, collaborate with teams from districts across our regional learning community and work together to design and implement a comprehensive Safety Assessment protocol for your district.
The Behavior Code: Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students
Town and Country San Diego, Hotel Circle North, San Diego, CA
Two-day interactive workshop:
The Behavior Code: Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students- Part 1
and
The Behavior Code: Focus on Case Studies, Communication, and Resilience- Part 2
Is This Student Safe to Return? A Comprehensive School Safety Assessment Approach
Quebec City Convention Center, 1000 Boulevard René-Lévesque E, Ville de Québec, QC G1A 1B4, Canada
The Behavior Code: Understanding and Teaching Challenging Children Without Burnout
Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel, New York, NY
Compassion, Burnout, and Empathic Fatigue: Building Resilience in Our Patients and Ourselves
Maine Medical Center, Portland ME
How to Navigate Inappropriate Sexual Behaviors in School
Boston, MA
Teen Depression: What Families and Schools Can Do for Reluctant Teens
Regeneration
42nd St., New York, NY
Regeneration
42nd St., New York, NY
Regeneration
42nd St., New York, NY
Regeneration
42nd St., New York, NY
Regeneration
42nd St., New York, NY
Regeneration
Cambridge, MA
Is this Student Safe at School: A Safety Assessment Model
Boston, MA
