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RAD: Understanding, coping and healing [UPDATED]

Published 9:57am Wednesday, January 9, 2013 Updated 12:00pm Wednesday, January 9, 2013

A free afterschool snack program is planned from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 10, in the Otter Tail Lake Room at the Otter Tail County Government Service Center in Fergus Falls.

This session will focus on the developing brain, and the various ways that trauma and ruptured attachment affect children’s psychosocial development.

Early identification of the disorder will be discussed, as well as various treatments, including the Nurtured Heart approach.

Presenters are Denni Wilson, MS, LP; Ed. S., and

Erin Swenson, MSW, LICSW, from Lakeland Mental Health Center in Fergus Falls.

This session is free and open to the public. Parents, early childhood educators, elementary and high school teachers, paraprofessionals and other community members are encouraged to attend.

Certificates of attendance for clock hours will be provided.

The Brown Bag Speaker Series is brought to you by the Children’s Mental Health Local Advisory Council (LAC)

For more information contact the coordinator by phone at 218-731-4163.