DN Community Mental Health Services
Donald deGraffenried's Enhanced Safe Place
An effective and detailed safe place helps to build client comfort and trust early in the EMDR treatment process. This Enhanced Safe Place contains client preparatory information, physical relaxation guidelines, multi sensory imaging, progressive relaxation, simple hypnotherapy techniques and is written in a detailed script format. Using these skills practitioners are able to practice and learn the three stages (Preparation, Beginning and Debriefing) and to create a highly effective and individualized Enhanced Safe Place. Watch the video here.
Urban Trauma Center Ribbon Cutting with Francine Shapiro, PhD
You're invited...
It's been an amazing 25 years: individual counseling, family therapy, group therapy, food pantry, energy assistance, summer camp, referral, case management and community organizing. Please join us to celebrate over two decades of Community Mental Health Services and Family Support Services with the ribbon cutting of our Urban Trauma Center, with Dr. Francine Shapiro Friday, September 19, 2008 @ 1 PM.
Francine Shapiro, Ph.D, is the originator and developer of EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing), which has been so well researched that it is now recommended as a front line treatment for trauma in the Practice Guidelines of the American Psychiatric Association, and those of the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs. Dr. Shapiro is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto, California, Executive Director of the EMDR Institute in Watsonville, CA, and founder and President Emeritus of the EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Programs, a non-profit organization that coordinates disaster response and low fee trainings worldwide.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) integrates elements of many effective psychotherapies in structured protocols that are designed to maximize treatment effects. These include psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, interpersonal, experiential, and body-centered therapies, which DNCMHS has employed since inception to help individuals and families from the community with their recovery from emotional and psychological difficulties. WithEMDR, DNCMHS has made more accessible an effective from of treatment that has made a significant difference in the recovery the lives a many individuals.
The Ribbon Cutting ceremony with Dr. Shapiro marks this auspicious occasion with the community spirit with which the agency was founded over 40 years ago by community members from theNewhallville area who open the original counseling center on Thompson Street.
Dixwell/Community Mental Health Services, Inc., a member agency of the Community Service Network, is funded by the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, Department of Social Services, Office of Victim Services
Anna Gomez comes to New Haven
This one - day advanced workshop will provide step by step strategies that will assist clinicians in following the EMDR principles and procedures while meeting the developmental needs of children and adolescents. Participants will be able to develop the skills and strategies that are necessary for case conceptualization and the effective implementation of the standard EMDR protocol with children and adolescents.
EMDR Level I Training in October 08
I am pleased to announce that Dixwell Newhallville Community Mental Health Services in conjunction with the EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Program is sponsoring a EMDR Level I training on October 24-26, 2008 in New Haven, Connecticut. Please see the enclosed announcement.
National Association of Social Workers Connecticut Chapter May 9th 2008 Conference
I'm pleased to announce that DNCMHS will make an appearance on the NASW Conference this Friday. Please stop by our booth to learn more about the agency and participate in our raffle.
American Identity Dialogue: A Third Opponent in the Democratic 2008 Primary
There are two insightful articles found in the NY Times today that shed light on ethnic and racial identity conflict in contemporary America. I would also urge your reading of Barack Obama's written comments in reply to Reverend Wright's "alleged" sermon (YouTube Video). I am taken by Frank Rich and Maureen Dowd for NOT acquiescing to simplistic, antagonistic, if not overly primitive notions of something as complex and wonderful as human identity. In response to Dowd's article This Bud's for You, I replied:
EMDR Consult - Camp Lejeune
I am please to announce a joint project between the EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Program and Dixwell Newhallville Community Mental Health Services to provide EMDR consultation training to 24 clinical staff at the Marine compound at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. We see this as a critical consultation given that as many as 1/3 of returning veterans may present with combat related post traumatic stress disorder. The Marines attending this training have all completed their EMDR Level II training and are actively working with veterans. Please check the attached agenda for more information. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about the consultation.
New DNCMHS Website Launched
Welcome to the new and updated DNCMHS website.