Join REDgen and University School of Milwaukee for a FREE Community Speaker event!
Join REDgen and USM for a free community speaker event!
Choose from two class times at Club Pilates in Wauwatosa for a REDgen fundraiser!
First class is at 4:45 PM and the second class is at 6:00 PM at
Club Pilates Wauwatosa 6929 W. North Ave, Wauwatosa
Suggested minimum donation $25 with ALL funds will be donated to REDgen.
Join us on Wednesday, February 28th at the Arrowhead High School North Campus Theater for a free screening of My Ascension, the story of suicide attempt survivor, Emma Benoit. Open to all high school students, their families, and the community. Resources tables, mental health professionals, and high school counselors will be available on site for a Q&A following the showing.
Visit https://www.myascension.us/ to learn more about the film and watch a trailer.
Join us on Sunday, January 7, 2024 at 3:00 PM at Notre Dame Middle School - St. Florian Campus for a bilingual presentation in English and Spanish by Dr. Maria Elena Perez.
Join us for an evening with New York Times bestselling author, Rosalind Wiseman.
Many young people feel that the world is so different now that it is impossible for adults to relate to their experiences and challenges. At the same time, many adults feel that it is increasingly difficult and frustrating to reach young people. We want to do our best by them, we believe we do our best for them, but our attempts to understand their world are rebuffed and communicating with them can escalate into misunderstandings and disconnection. We have to figure out another way to be in relationship with each other. For our children, for their education, for the foundation of our communities and our collective welfare, the stakes couldn’t be higher.
So how do we support young people to pursue their academic and creative purpose, develop emotional and intellectual resilience, and support their mental health? What are the communication strategies that bridge the gap between generations? What truly motivates young people, and what makes them turn away from us? If they do turn away, how do we create opportunities to reconnect and build back our relationships?
Combining the latest adolescent brain and behavioral research with over twenty-five years of work with young people, Rosalind will answer these questions. She will show how to get beyond the stereotypes and expectations young people and adults have of each other and transform our interactions into meaningful exchanges where adults are credible, powerful mentors.
REDgen is proud to partner with the Friendship Circle of Wisconsin for the One Thing I Wish You Knew event on November 12th from 4-6 PM at Harry & Rose Samson JCC. Featuring a mental health ted talk style, resource fair, and keynote speakers. We hope to see you there.
Join us for an evening with Sheri Glucoft Wong.
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About this Event:
Please join us for an evening with Sheri Glucoft Wong to learn about attitudes and approaches that support our children's emotional and social development and encourage their confidence and resilience. This talk is intentionally designed to address children ranging from Preschool-age through High School. There will be a forum for questions after the talk.
In this workshop, you will learn to
• support your children's capacity to handle disappointment and other setbacks
• share messages that promote self-esteem and self-reliance
• set limits in ways that empower your children and strengthen their confidence
• encourage attitudes that translate into social and emotional well-being
• partner with school to support your children in their world outside of home
On this #WorldMentalHealthDay, we encourage you to take a moment and think about resilience -- the ability to problem-solve, overcome obstacles, recover from setbacks, and rise above difficulties. REDgen's work is grounded in research showing that learning resilience not only helps prevent crisis but also helps us thrive.
To learn more, check out these resources from two of the nation's foremost experts on resilience and our REDgen partners: Kenneth Ginsburg, MD, MSEd, and Sheri Glucoft Wong, LCSW.
For parents: https://parentandteen.com/support-teen-mental-health-stand-by-teens/
For teens: https://www.fosteringresilience.com/stress_management_plan.php
And please join us on Oct. 19 for a free community presentation from Sheri Glucroft Wong on raising resilient kids. Event info and registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/raising-resilient-kids-with-sheri-glucoft-wong-tickets-689696981237
This presentation aims to help you as an adult understand the value of building resiliency skills in our youth by:
- Providing healthy alternatives to manage stress
Helping with emotional regulation
- Cultivate more effective thought patterns
- Exploring research on resiliency building and upstream crisis prevention
- Discussing evidence-based strategies so they can live their best lives
Presenter: Jenny Strom is the Director at North Shore Center. She specializes in working with children, adolescents, young adults, and families by creating a safe context from which change can occur. Jenny is devoted to helping clients navigate their way through difficult life issues, whatever those may be, in order to heal.
She has worked with clients to make positive and long-lasting changes around issues such as: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Complex trauma histories, ADHD, Anxiety, Depression, Child sexual abuse, Self-injurious behavior, Family violence/conflict, Grief and loss, as well as emotional, behavioral and relational struggles effecting children.
She is intensively trained in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and believes heavily in its principles. "The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started." - Norman Cousins
REDgen and USM free speaker series brings you HOW TO NAVIGATE LIFE: The new science of finding your way, in school, career, and beyond.
Belle Liang and Timothy Klein devote their careers both to counseling individual students and to cutting through the daily pressures to show a better way, a framework, and set of questions to find kids’ “true north”: what really turns them on in life, and how to harness the core qualities that reveal, allowing them to choose a course of study, a college, and a career. Refreshments will be provided and books will be available for purchase, courtesy of Boswell Books.
Register for this Event at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dana-suskind-parent-nation-unlocking-every-childs-potential-tickets-312467758477
Boswell Books will be on site selling Dr. Borba’s new book, Thrivers.
How to Help the Pandemic Generation Thrive Now and Later
As an an internationally recognized expert on children, teens, parenting, bullying and moral development, Dr. Michele Borba explains why developing a healthy sense of empathy is a key predictor of which kids will thrive and succeed in the future. Drawing upon her research, Borba gives helpful tips to cultivate empathy in children and teens.
Lisa Damour is Director of the Laurel School’s Center for Research on Girls and author of Untangled.
Boswell Books will be on site selling copies of Dr. Damour’s books Under Pressure and Untangled.
Stress, Anxiety and Resilience | Thriving in Uncertain Times
As a clinical psychologist who specializes in working with youth, Lisa Damour, Ph.D., has witnessed a rising tide of stress and anxiety among the youth in her research. Knowing no parent wants to see their child in emotional overload, Damour offers helpful solutions to the stresses of growing up in the modern era.
Permission to Feel: Inspiring A New Mindset Around the Power of Emotions to Transform Our Lives with Marc Brackett
Marc, founder of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, will discuss the themes of his newest book, Permission to Feel, laying a framework for what adults need to learn in order to support children―and themselves―in achieving academic and life success.
Social Media Wellness: Understanding the Intersection of School, Stress and Social Media with Ana Homayoun, a noted author and educator
Working with kids in today’s digital world has never been so complex, and keeping up with the latest social media trends can seem like a never-ending challenge. Today’s technology-infused learning environments play host to many distractions, including social media. Many teens and young adults typically use online tools to promote and maintain community, and with that opportunity comes potential challenges. Ana Homayoun helps parents and educators understand the new world of social media socialization, and provides practical tips on how we can all work to make better choices around social media use and overall wellness.
Join REDgen and Boswell Books for a virtual event with Dr. Abigail Gewirtz, a child psychologist and leading expert on families under stress. Dr. Abi offers a clear and truly practical guide to having the kind of tough conversations with your kids that really help in her new book, When the World Feels Like a Scary Place.
Directed by Mary MacDonald Kerr, ACTUALLY features Emily Fury Daly (Amber) and Justin Jones (Tom.)
For ACTUALLY, Renaissance Theaterworks’ community partners include Advocate Aurora Health, Waukesha Women’s Center, the City of Milwaukee Office of Violence Prevention’s Commission on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, and REDgen.
STREAMING
Streaming of the fully-staged rehearsal for ACTUALLY will be available on demand (cost $15) at https://vimeo.com/ondemand/actually beginning April 3 through April 30, 2020.
FACT SHEET
What: Renaissance Theaterworks’ fully-staged rehearsal of ACTUALLY, by Anna Ziegler.
Available: on demand (cost $15) at https://vimeo.com/ondemand/actually
Dates: April 3 – April 30, 2020
Description: Tom and Amber are college freshmen at Princeton. They are overwhelmed, overstimulated, sleep-deprived, surrounded by strangers, full of tension, uncertainty, and alcohol. What could possibly go wrong? ACTUALLY is a smart, profound exploration of the culture of sexual consent. A perfectly complex tale for our #MeToo Age.
Information: Call 414-291-7800 or online at www.r-t-w.com.
We are sorry to cancel the speaker series, "Calming the pressure to succeed." with Alexandra Robbins, as she will be heeding travel warnings.
Please stay tuned for future events, and thank you for supporting youth mental health in the Milwaukee area!
