Events
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Psychiatric Advance Directive (PAD) – WJCS STAFF ONLY
ZoomA Psychiatric Advance Directive (PAD) is an instruction to be followed when a person isn’t able to make
decisions regarding her/his physical or mental health treatment. Learn your responsibilities and the rights
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Navigating Screens: Helping Our Little Ones Thrive, On And Offline
Congregation Kol Ami 252 Soundview Ave, White Plains, NY, United StatesLet’s empower our children to grow confidently in an increasingly digital world — together.
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Discussing Difficult Topics with Clients
ZoomDates & Times: 11/4/25 9-11am & 12/2/25 9-11am Enrollment Limited to: No limit Contact Hrs: 4 CEU’s: 4 Have you ever been uncomfortable discussing something sensitive with a client? In this two-part course, clinicians will learn how to engage in difficult conversations with their clients. The first session will cover general background on client- and therapist-interfering thoughts and behaviors that get in the way of approaching difficult conversations. We will use concepts from DBT and a framework for working with “resistance” and getting “unstuck.” The second session will focus more on practical application in the form […]
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Food Pantry at WJCS Mary J. Blige Women’s Center
FeaturedMJB Women's Center 489 South Broadway, Yonkers, NY, United StatesThe WJCS Mary J. Blige Center in Yonkers is hosting a food pantry on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.
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Organizational Skills Training
ZoomParticipants will learn about the essential components of OST and how to use the published treatment manual to address their clients’ organizational difficulties.
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Food Pantry at WJCS Mary J. Blige Women’s Center
FeaturedMJB Women's Center 489 South Broadway, Yonkers, NY, United StatesThe WJCS Mary J. Blige Center in Yonkers is hosting a food pantry on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.
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Edythe Kurz Educational Institute Conference 2025
ZoomThe Annual 2025 WJCS Kurz Conference will explore how digital environments influence the mental health and emotional development of adolescents and young adults. While technology offers connection and creativity, it can also intensify stress, loneliness, and self-comparison. A focus will be the relationship between screen time, social media use, and mental well-being, with a focus on mental health, self-esteem, and identity development.
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Food Pantry at WJCS Mary J. Blige Women’s Center
FeaturedMJB Women's Center 489 South Broadway, Yonkers, NY, United StatesThe WJCS Mary J. Blige Center in Yonkers is hosting a food pantry on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.
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Family Volunteer Event: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
WJCS HQ 845 North Broadway, White Plains, NYOn Monday, January 19, 2026, in celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr., WJCS is hosting a Family Volunteer Event. We are inviting families with children of all ages to participate in collecting nonperishable food items and packing “Winter Hug” care packages with soup, cocoa, hats, and mittens for the Westchester community. This is a great opportunity for families to bond and teach children the values of volunteerism and helping others. Our Westchester families need our help now more than ever. With the rising cost of EVERYTHING and the reduction in support and benefits, families are struggling to buy food. Our school-based clinicians ...
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Theories & Practices to Support Clinicians Working with Grieving Clients
ZoomThe current course aims to provide clinicians with a grounding in psychoeducation and theory behind grief responses in order to increase clinician confidence in working with clients who are experiencing bereavement. Additionally, this course will provide clinicians with examples of and hands-on practice with activities they can use in session to help support clients on their journey through grief and healing. At the close of each day of the course, space will be provided for clinicians to process their thoughts and feelings related to working with grieving clients in an effort to normalize conversation about death and dying and dispel some of the discomfort or concern about supporting grieving clients.
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Understanding the Role of Peer Specialists
ZoomEnrollment Limited To: 20 Contact Hrs: 1.5 CEUs: 1.5 Method: Lecture Learning Objectives: Participants will learn the origins of peer support. Participants will learn the nature of the role and how it intersects with other roles in mental health clinics. Participants will learn the aspects of a recovery-oriented culture. Instructor: Jeremy M. Reuling, LCSW, NYCPS, CPRP Location: Zoom Cost for non-WJCS staff: $75 CLICK HERE TO REGISTER Westchester Jewish Community Services is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0101, and by the New York […]
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Trauma Treatment Across the Lifespan
Clinicians are likely to encounter survivors of trauma in their practice. In addition to clients who meet criteria for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and other Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders from single traumatic events, survivors of complex and early developmental attachment trauma may also present more complex clinical pictures.
