B4Stage4 CEU Event w/ Sandy Hook Promise

  • 10/06/2015 11:30 AM - 4:15 PM
  • True
  • United Way 2400 Reading Rd. Cincinnati
  • 2
  • 10/05/2015 12:00 PM
  • 63
    • $15.00
    • $30.00

  • PAYMENT DUE AT TIME OF REGISTRATION

    Presenters: national non-profit Sandy Hook Promise, ACEs with Dr. Robert Schapiro, preventing substance abuse with Dr. Bonnie Hedrick, and more

    An afternoon educational event featuring national non-profit Sandy Hook Promise, ACEs with Dr. Robert Schapiro, preventing substance abuse with Dr. Bonnie Hedrick, and more. When we think about cancer, heart disease, or diabetes, we don't wait years to treat them.  We start way before stage 4.  We begin with prevention.  This is what we should be doing when people have serious mental illness too. We can help- B4Stage4.

    When we think about cancer, heart disease, or diabetes, we don’t wait years to treat them. We start way before Stage 4. We begin with prevention. And when people are in the first stage of those diseases, and have a persistent cough, high blood pressure, or high blood sugar, we try immediately to reverse these symptoms.  This is what we should be doing when people have serious mental illnesses, too. When they first begin to experience symptoms such as loss of sleep, feeling tired for no reason, feeling low, feeling anxious, or hearing voices, we should act.

    These early symptoms might not ever become serious. Like a cough, they often go away on their own, and are nothing to fear. But when they do not go away, it typically takes ten years from the time they first appear until someone gets a correct diagnosis and proper treatment. This means that by ignoring them, we lose ten years in which we could intervene in order to change people’s lives for the better. During most of these years most people still have supports that allow them to succeed - home, family, friends, school, and work. So people can often recover quickly, and live full and productive lives.

    CEU approval sources: Ohio Counselor and Social Worker CPE hours approved, # RCST111001 (valid until November 2015), by the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker & Marriage and Family Therapist Board; KY Board of Social Work Continuing education sponsorship number KBSWSP2015030 (valid until 7/31/2016). Successful completion of this offering includes attending the entire offering and completion of evaluation. If you arrive late or leave early continuing education provider does not constitute endorsement of program content.