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Supporting Neurodivergent Students in a Community College Setting (General & Administrative Issues)

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This course has been designed to address concerns brought up by the staff working with students on the spectrum at Westchester Community College. The course will provide an orientation to the way ASD (Autistic Spectrum Disorder) is defined (via the DSM 5) and how it can manifest in the community college setting. The course will focus on best practice strategies for managing the challenges that come up for many students on the spectrum in their first college experience. These issues include that which is interpersonal such as the risk of social isolation as well as the intrapersonal such as accessing the emotional regulation skills necessary to meet new social and academic challenges.

Supporting Neurodivergent Students in a Community College Setting (Clinical Issues)

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This course has been designed to address concerns brought up by the staff working with students on the spectrum at Westchester Community College. The course will provide an orientation to the way ASD (Autistic Spectrum Disorder) is defined (via the DSM 5) and how it can manifest in the community college setting. The course will focus on best practice strategies for managing the challenges that come up for many students on the spectrum in their first college experience. These issues include that which is interpersonal such as the risk of social isolation as well as the intrapersonal such as accessing the emotional regulation skills necessary to meet new social and academic challenges.

Westchester Soccer Club & WJCS’s 2025 Jewish Heritage Night

Memorial Field 431 Garden Ave., Mount Vernon, NY, United States

Westchester Jewish Community Services (WJCS) is thrilled to co-host Westchester Soccer Club’s first annual Jewish Heritage Night at its home stadium on Wednesday July 16, at 7pm. Please join us for an evening of soccer, community, and family-friendly fun!

Introduction to Trauma-Informed Supervision

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This Introduction to Trauma-Informed Supervision is the required first step for supervisors in Westchester to become involved with Trauma-Informed Supervision work groups. This training will provide supervisor participants with a foundation in trauma and resilience as incorporated in their roles as supervisors, with particular attention to collective traumas and vicarious trauma.

Intro to Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

WJCS Hartsdale Clinic 141 North Central Avenue, Hartsdale, NY, United States

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based treatment originally designed for individuals with suicidal or self-harm behaviors. It has come to be an evidence-based treatment for borderline personality (BPD). However, many other clients and disorders have been shown to benefit from DBT, such as depression, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, or alcohol and drug use disorders. It can be applied as a behavioral therapy to any target behavior that the client would want to change. DBT is built on balancing acceptance and change. Its use of dialectics like this one, the teaching of mindfulness as a core skill, and its group curriculum of mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness skills that have distinguished DBT as a skills-based therapy.