LEND Pgh - SSW Baker Fellowship Joint Presentation “Engagement in Virtual Learning – Supporting Children with special needs and families during COVID-19"

February 17, 2021 - 12:15pm to 4:00pm

Zoom Meeting Link: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/91251741364

Passcode: LEND2020

Learning Objectives

  • To consider engagement approaches for virtual learning in clinical practice and therapeutic intervention
  • To identify strategies for virtual learning for special needs children and families and to promote advocacy
  • To identify community resources that enhance virtual learning for special needs children and families
  • To bridge competencies in practice through creative and supportive approaches to virtual learning

 

12:15 PM        Welcome, Introductions, Purpose

                        Valire Carr Copeland, PhD, MPH

                        Director, BHWET Program, Professor, School of Social Work

                        Miya Asato, MD

                        Director, LEND Program of Pittsburgh, Professor, UPSOM

                        Cheryl Messick PhD, CCC-SSL

                        Co-Director, LEND Program of Pittsburgh, Professor, SHRS

                       

12:30 – 1:30    Keynote Speaker: Liz Miller, PhD

Director of the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine and the Medical Director of Community and Population Health at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh

Professor of Pediatrics, Public Health, and Clinical and Translational Science

Edmund R. McCluskey Chair in Pediatric Medical Education at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

 

Co-Presenter: Felicia Savage Friedman, M. Ed.

Founder and CEO of YogaRoots On Location, LLC

Community Co-lead with Dr. Liz Miller with The Pittsburgh Study

 

1:30 – 1:40      Break

 

1:40 – 2:30      Panel Discussion

                       

Moderator: Felicia Savage Friedman, M. Ed.

 

Shawnda McGroarty, M.Ed.

Program Director of Wesley K-8 School

 

Cortney Chelecki, M.S.Ed.

PA Certified School Psychologist

Psychology Resident

                        Wesley Family Services

 

Johanna Burnett

                        PFLAG Speakers Bureau Coordinator

 

                        Oliver Burnett

                        UPMC Adolescent Center Community Advisory Board

 

2:30 – 3:00      Breakout Session  

 

3:00 – 3:30      Large Group Discussion

 

3:30 - 4:00      Closing - Miya Asato