Presented by Dr. Paul Young, President and CEO of the National AfterSchool Association (NAA), this session will help school age program leaders and their staff reflect, assess, plan, and improve adult work behaviors so that their interactions with students become more personal, proactive, and positive. The main goal of the workshop is to help teams develop a common vision about student management that results in less tension, stress and negativity by focusing on teaching and clarifying what adults must know and be able to do during every minute of programming to assure that children and youth are positively engaged, safe, and productive.

Promoting Positive Behaviors in School Age Programs
Saturday, Feb. 4
9 a.m. to 1 p.m. (breakfast served at 8:30 a.m.)
OPS TAC Building, Room 5062
3215 Cuming Street, Omaha
$20/person

For more information, please contact Jennifer Haggart, ECCOA Coordinator, jhaggart@esu3.org or 402.597.4991. Registrations are due by Friday, Jan. 27.

Understand the facts of how alcohol and other drugs impair your ability to make healthy choices and drive responsibly. Discover your “individual” patterns, risky behaviors, needs/wants, and lifestyle of unhealthy choices that caused stressful, emotional, legal, financial and familial issues. Change to empowerment thinking, recognize the levels of unhealthy choices of use of alcohol and other drugs and design a written action plan to prevent repeat offending. Through video, understand the judicial system and law enforcement; discover “face to face” the loss, the mental and physical impairment and the personal impact on the victim’s lives; and change your attitude toward your responsibility to the potential victims, yourself, a healthier lifestyle and “pay it forward”.

Waypoint Church
6502 Sorenson Parkway, Omaha
$70 prepaid/state voucher / $85 cash at door
Registration at 7:00am, class starts at 7:15am
Contact (402) 502-9788 to register or click here for more information

Ellen James, a family law attorney from Omaha, will be in Lincoln on Friday, February 24 to present on terminology, statistics about gender variant youth, and the continuum of sex/gender/orientation. She will also provide skills and resources and offer an opportunity to discuss how providers can become more sensitive and welcoming to the needs of children and families experiencing gender non-conformity.

Click here for more details.

Are you ready to take the quiz to be a Peer Support & Wellness Specialist?

What do you need to do before you apply to take the quiz?

• Fax or mail a copy of your certificate of attendance indicating you have had 40 hours of peer support training with your contact information
• Be a Nebraska resident
• Register for a test day with Barb Born:
  • Barb Born
    Staff Assistant I
    DHHS-Division of Behavioral Health
    301 Centennial Mall South – 3rd FL
    P.O. Box 95026, Lincoln, NE 68509-5026
    Phone: 402-471-7644 / Fax: 402-471-7859

February 29
8 am - 5 pm
Kearney
4009 8th Ave Suite 65

March 1
8:00am-5:00pm
3801 Harney St
Omaha NE

March 14
8 am - 5 pm
Lincoln NE
301 Centennial Mall, South-NSOB Room 1Y

March 22
8 am – 5 pm
Omaha NE
3801 Harney St

April 5
8 am – 5 pm
Lincoln NE
301 Centennial Mall, South-NSOB Room 1Y