Upcoming

Peer Support Groups: Program Directors

Wed, Jan 8, 2025, 12:30 – 2:00 PM CST
Zoom
Peer Support Groups: Program Directors
Program Directors, or equivalent staff, to come together to dialogue about topics related to program management and supporting staff to best serve DV survivors and their families, and to discuss successes and struggles in their role as middle managers. In the process, members will share resources, approaches, innovations, and strategies with each other within a safe space where members can speak candidly and with assurance that confidentiality will be maintained.

Facilitator Bio
Susan Jans Blumenfeld, MSW, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker in IL, and the former Director of Training and TA on Children, Families and Domestic Violence with the National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma and Mental Health (2003-2021). She is the author of the Guide for Engaging & Supporting Parents Affected by Domestic Violence (NCDVTMH, 2015), and co-author of the Family-Centered Toolkit for Domestic Violence Programs (NCDVTMH, 2021).  

Susan's professional career has spanned close to 50 years of clinical social work practice, with supervisory leadership and program management experience, specializing in the field of child and family mental health, child trauma, domestic violence, and interpersonal abuse. Susan retired from full time work in 2022. She continues to be invested in building more responsive community-based services and systems to support healing and resilience with children, families, and caregivers affected by interpersonal violence and trauma.

During her 18 years at the National Center, Susan also provided leadership for a capacity-building initiative in the Chicago metro area that was privately supported. As part of this work, she developed intensive leadership training for DV supervisors and managers followed by ongoing peer consultation (in-person, and then online during COVID) from 2016 through 2021. The proposed group is based on the peer consultation model developed during those years.  



Questions? Email
cnorton@the-network.org.  


This group will meet the second Wednesday of each month 12:30pm-2:00pm.





Instructors

Colleen Norton

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