Helping Children Appreciate & Connect with the Older Generation

A live interactive Web Workshop hosted on RingCentral for social workers and licensed professional counselors. Continuing Education Credits Awarded/ Contact Hours: 3 clock hours (ASWB/ACE) (NBCC), 3 CE (MD BSWE)

This is a hybrid event. The event will be hosted at Grace Community Church (8200 Old Columbia Rd., Fulton, MD, 20759) and broadcast online with a link provided upon purchase of admission. If you have purchased a ticket to access the recording of the session, access to the recording will be provided after the session has concluded and the recording has been edited.

*If you are a CentrePointe alum and are interested in attending this session, please send an email to office@cpchope.org.

Course Description:

Learn how to build stronger family bonds across generations. Isabel uses her experience as a “retired grandchild”, parent, and senior care professional to offer a framework for helping children develop more meaningful relationships and understanding with their older loved ones. Learn how older adults and grandparents can play a role in helping neurotypical and neurodivergent children gain confidence and resiliency for life circumstances.

Learning Objectives

1. Discuss challenges of intergenerational connection

2. Share benefits of intergenerational connection

3. Present framework to promote stronger bonds.

4. Brainstorm ways to help kids realize their impact

5. Brainstorm ways to answer kids’ questions

6. Explain how this framework can be helpful with neurodiverse children/adolescence.

7. Learn strategies that can be used to prompt children through interaction

Our Presenter

Isabel Tom is the author of The Value of Wrinkles: A Young Perspective on How Loving the Old will Change Your Life. She is also a mom, wife, daughter, and retired granddaughter. Isabel has been featured on national television as well on numerous radio shows and podcasts such as Building Relationships with Dr. Gary Chapman and AARP’s Take on Today. Isabel is Chinese American, grew up in a multigenerational household, and took part in caring for her grandparents, who lived to 98 and 102, and her father, who battled cancer and passed in 2015. Professionally, Isabel has served in the senior living and hospice care field. Isabel holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Maryland. To learn more about Isabel’s work go to valueofwrinkles.com.

Course Agenda

9:00-9:45 Challenges and benefit of intergenerational connection

9:45-10:30 Introduce and discuss framework to promote stronger bonds

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45-11:45 Apply framework and brainstorm ways to address aspects of aging/intergenerational connection

11:45-12:00 pm Q and A

Registration & information:

The cost to attend this event is $60, which includes a certificate of completion.

Space is limited. Cancellations must be received prior to the event date to be eligible for a refund.

Register online at www.eventbrite.com/o/centrepointe-counseling-inc-9832900843. Registration closes on April 11th, 2025.

This live webinar takes place on Ring Central and is fully interactive. Attendees may ask and answer questions throughout the presentation and participate in instructor-led discussion

Operating Systems Requirements: Windows 10 or higher, MacOS 10 or higher, Android 5.0 or higher. • Internet Browser: Internet Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge (Chromium based), Safari. • Broadband Internet connection: Cable, High-speed DSL & any other medium that is internet accessible

Please contact Centrepointe Counseling’s Continuing Education Director, Matthew Raeder (mraeder@centrepointecounseling.org.), if you have questions, concerns, or grievances about this course or require ADA accommodation.

Course completion & CE information:

Course completion requirements: Social workers and Professional Counselors must attend the entire course and complete a course evaluation to be eligible for CE credit.

Certificates of completion will be emailed within 7 business days of course completion.

CentrePointe Counseling, provider # 1586, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 02/28/2025 – 02/28/2028. Social workers completing this course receive 3 clinical continuing education credits.

CentrePointe Counseling, Inc. is an approved sponsor of The Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners for continuing education credits for licensed social workers in Maryland. Social Workers and Professional Counselors should contact their regulatory board to determine course approval for continuing education credits.

CentrePointe Counseling, Inc. has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6569. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CentrePointe Counseling, Inc. is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.