Focus Workshop Series

Join Rebecca Brown, LCSW, BeWellATL Manager, and Joel Dworkin, HAMSA Program Manager, for a conversation about harm reduction and making smart and affirming choices. They will cover substance use and healthy relationships, language for discussing social pressures with teens, and the decision-making process.

Join Rebecca Brown, LCSW, BeWellATL Manager, for an intimate conversation with Rabbi Hammer of Gila’s Way about teen suicide. Rabbi Hammer reflects upon tragic loss and how promoting suicide prevention offers him perspective.

We spent a virtual hour with Cari Newman, Certified Parent Coach, while she answered your questions about parenting.

Rebecca Brown, LCSW, BeWellATL Manager, and Sarah French, LCSW, speak about the various anxieties and stressors women experience and some useful strategies for conquering them.

Featuring Dr. Marlena Reese, Executive Functioning Coach; Cari Newman, Certified Parent Coach; and Jaime Stepansky, LCSW.

Rebecca Brown, LCSW, Cari Newman, MAT, Certified Parent Coach, and Jaime Stepansky, LCSW, RPT help us look at how social media, the pressure to achieve, and body image focus is impacting our girls, and what to do about it.

Cari Newman, Parent Coach, discusses the importance of talking about substance use and shares ways to increase communication and connection between parents and teens.

Our speakers, Ina Enoch, PhD and Ellen Zucrow, LCSW shared their thoughts on the 3 types of co-parenting, developing a co-parenting plan, and managing expectations for yourself & your child.

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Our Speakers, Dr. Howard Schub, Pediatric Neurologist, Dr. Marlena Reese, Executive Functioning Coach, and Cari Newman, Certified Parent Coach shared their thoughts about how the Horwitz-Zusman Child & Family Center can support children with ADHD and their families.

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Rabbi Judith Beiner, JF&CS Community Chaplain, and Joel Dworkin, HAMSA Program Manager, share their thoughts on some common causes for stress around the holidays, and tips/suggestions on how to mitigate it.

This webinar helped parents identify healthy and unhealthy relationship behaviors, increase awareness of dating violence, gain knowledge and skills to recognize warning signs of abuse, and intervene effectively when it occurs.

Parents learned to facilitate discussions with their teen about healthy relationships and teen dating violence.

This webinar provided a closer look at the anatomy of a tantrum, the root causes, and ways to guide your child through it. This workshop offered parents tools for monitoring and managing their own emotion regulation, and practical solutions for diffusing meltdowns in toddlers to teens. Our clinicians also offered resources and insight into when it may be time to seek outside help.


A special thank you to our speakers Cari Newman, Certified Parent Coach, and Miranda Barzey, LAPC, for this sucessful presentation.

The beginning of a new school year creates excitement, curiosity, and concern for parents and teens. It can also provide an opportunity to review successes and struggles from the previous school year, and to experiment with new strategies and routines. Dr. Lori Wilson provided strategies to help you partner with your student to build executive functioning skills this school year.