2022-2023 Workshops
AAC Virtual Supper Club featuring James Falahee
February 15, 2023 at 6 PM – 7 PM
Link to the recording is found here.
The Hope Squad- Program on Suicide Prevention and Mental Health
December 8, 2022 at 7:30 PM – 9 PM
Link to the recording is found here
2017-2018 Workshops
CreateABLE – Art for Everyone!
Saturday, April 14 at 10 AM – 2 PM
Registration is required.
CreateABLE, formerly known as The Magic Paintbrush Project, presents creative workshops which engage the imagination, family & friends with goals and ability. Our workshops include family sessions, group sessions, peer socialization groups, sibling groups and integrated classrooms.
Combining goals and creativity, our workshops are designed to meet the needs of individuals of all ages with physical or developmental disabilities, and their caregivers.
Our programs provide inviting activities and materials that creatively engage all involved. The result is in an experience focusing on abilities that will leave a lasting impression for all. Whether you are a family, an agency or an interested community member, we can creatively meet your needs.
Mental Health First Aid – October 21 8:30am – 4:30pm
Space is limited, and registration is REQUIRED.
Register here
Just as CPR helps you assist an individual having a heart attack, Mental Health First Aid helps you assist someone experiencing a mental health or substance use-related crisis. In the Mental Health First Aid course, you learn risk factors and warning signs for mental health and addiction concerns, strategies for how to help someone in both crisis and non-crisis situations, and where to turn for help.
Unstuck and On Target!
Saturday, January 6, 2018
1:00 – 4:00 pm
Walter Reed Community Center
For students with autism spectrum disorders, problems with flexibility and goal-directed behavior can be a major obstacle to success in school and in life. But flexibility and goal-setting can be taught just like any other skill—and this how-to workshop equips parents with simple, real-world ways to help students with ASD develop this critical aspect of executive function.
Monica Adler Werner, M.A., is the director of the Model Asperger Program (MAP) at The Ivymount School. In that capacity, she has spearheaded the development of a social learning curriculum that emphasizes problem solving, self-advocacy, and self-regulation. Ms. Werner has been a major contributor to the development of the Unstuck and On Target! intervention. In addition, she is a cofounder of Take2 Summer Camp, a program designed to develop social thinking, problem solving, and skills. She also serves as an ad-hoc public reviewer of National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) autism grants.
Past Programs
Inclusion Workshop with Cheryl Jorgensen2017
Inclusion Workshop with Cheryl Jorgensen – March 18, 2017
For faculty, administrators, parents, students and community members.
Click here for a detailed agenda and registration.
Magic Paintbrush Project2017
The Magic Paintbrush Project: Creative workshops which engage the imagination, family & friends with goals and ability. Our workshops include family sessions, group sessions, peer socialization groups, sibling groups and integrated classrooms.
Combining goals and creativity, our workshops are designed to meet the needs of individuals of all ages with physical or developmental disabilities, and their caregivers.
Our programs provide inviting activities and materials that creatively engage all involved. The result is in an experience focusing on abilities that will leave a lasting impression for all. Whether you are a family, an agency or an interested community member, we can creatively meet your needs.
You can expect…
- An inviting experience which includes the whole family!
- Fun and interactive socialization with peers and siblings!
- A unique focus on ability, which draws outside of the box!
- While Life Is Washable… we don’t always have to get messy!
Every experience is tailored to the needs of the session.
But extra clothes can make it extra fun
Dyslexia Event - Dislecksia: The Movie2016
DYSLEXIA FILM NIGHT
THURSDAY, 10.27.16: 7:00PM
Kenmore Middle School Theater
200 S. Carlin Springs Road
Arlington, VA 22204
Please join Arlington Public Schools and the Arlington Special Education
PTA (SEPTA) for our second annual Dyslexia Film Night.
This year, we will view Dislecksia: The Movie. Families, staff and students
are invited to “get on board with Emmy award-winning filmmaker Harvey
Hubbell V and his crew as they explore the unique nature of how each of us
learn. Follow Hubbell, dyslexic superstars Billy Bob Thornton and Joe
Pantoliano, world-renowned brain scientists and researchers, students and
advocates as they join a movement to revolutionize education. Find out
what it’s like to have your brain scanned inside an fMRI and visit with a
group of dyslexic researchers in the jungles of Costa Rica, all the while
following Hubbell through his days of growing up dyslexic before many had
even heard of the word. Through the non-linear brain of Hubbell, his lens
captures the otherwise complex issues of learning differences in a manner
that allows the audience to recognize the differences and honor the gifts in
all of us.”
www.dislecksiathemovie.com
This event is generously funded by Arlington SEPTA.
Unstuck and On Target2015
Unstuck and OnTarget
Video of the presentation is available to SEPTA members.
Unstuck and OnTarget: SEPTA will offer a free, intensive workshop for Arlington teachers and staff on a social skills/problem-solving program that teaches children, especially those with autism and ADHD, how to work though social challenges and manage social interactions and friendships.
This workshop will give teachers UOT’s research-based strategies to help students become more flexible, work through social challenges, and better understand the complexities of social interactions and friendships. This workshop will be presented by Monica Adler Werner, co-author of Unstuck and On Target, and Director of the Model Asperger’s Program at the Ivymount School.
Inclusion Workshop with Cheryl Jorgensen – March 18, 2017
For faculty, administrators, parents, students and community members.
Click here for a detailed agenda and registration.
The Magic Paintbrush Project: Creative workshops which engage the imagination, family & friends with goals and ability. Our workshops include family sessions, group sessions, peer socialization groups, sibling groups and integrated classrooms.
Combining goals and creativity, our workshops are designed to meet the needs of individuals of all ages with physical or developmental disabilities, and their caregivers.
Our programs provide inviting activities and materials that creatively engage all involved. The result is in an experience focusing on abilities that will leave a lasting impression for all. Whether you are a family, an agency or an interested community member, we can creatively meet your needs.
You can expect…
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THURSDAY, 10.27.16: 7:00PM
Unstuck and OnTarget
Video of the presentation is available to SEPTA members.
Unstuck and OnTarget: SEPTA will offer a free, intensive workshop for Arlington teachers and staff on a social skills/problem-solving program that teaches children, especially those with autism and ADHD, how to work though social challenges and manage social interactions and friendships.
This workshop will give teachers UOT’s research-based strategies to help students become more flexible, work through social challenges, and better understand the complexities of social interactions and friendships. This workshop will be presented by Monica Adler Werner, co-author of Unstuck and On Target, and Director of the Model Asperger’s Program at the Ivymount School.
