April 23, 9am-11am CDT at Circle of Care: 1616 N Gilcrease Museum Rd, Tulsa, OK 74127

Registration: $20* (FREE CEUs available for Social Work and Behavioral Health – with registration)

Workshop Description: this training addresses the heavy emotional toll caregiving can take, including feelings of hopelessness, overwhelming stress, and persistent guilt. Participants will learn how to compassionately support caregivers who feel emotionally exhausted or stuck, validate their experiences without judgment, and offer practical strategies that restore hope, resilience, and connection within the family system.

Presenter’s Bio: Tara Glenn, LCSW, IMH-E® (III)– Tara is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and is an endorsed infant mental health clinician by the Oklahoma Association of Infant Mental Health. Tara’s work has focused on treating childhood sexual abuse and trauma, treating families with infants/young children who have experienced scary and confusing things or have experienced attachment disruptions, and serving adults with complex trauma histories. Tara is an EMDR trained therapist as well as Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), and Circle of Security. Tara believes we are created for connection and with a purpose and wants to serve people so that any barriers to that fulfillment can be diminished.

The event is open to the general professional audience.

*Please note the payment transaction will appear as “Haruv Institute” (mahon harov) and the confirmation may take several hours to appear in your email.

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March 26, 9am-11am CDT at Circle of Care: 1616 N Gilcrease Museum Rd, Tulsa, OK 74127

Registration: $20* (FREE CEUs available for Social Work and Behavioral Health – with registration)

Workshop Description: this training equips clinical and program staff with a trauma-informed framework for supporting caregivers as they navigate children’s survival-based behaviors. Participants will learn how trauma impacts behavior, how to reframe challenging responses as adaptive survival strategies, and how to coach caregivers in responding with safety, regulation, and connection rather than punishment.

Presenter’s Bio: Valerie Isaacs, LPC-S, is a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor, endorsed Infant Mental Health Specialist, and Clinical Mentor, speaker, and trainer specializing in trauma-informed, attachment-based work with infants, children, adolescents, and families. Her work centers on early relational trauma, caregiver–child relationships, and the use of reflective practice to support healing and resilience across developmental stages. Valerie is the founder of Valiant Counseling and Consulting, LLC, a private practice in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she provides counseling, supervision, and consultation grounded in principles of infant and child mental health. She is also the co-founder of the Infant Mental Health (IMH) Training Cohort in Oklahoma, supporting workforce development through interdisciplinary, relationship-centered training. Valerie regularly facilitates trainings for clinicians, educators, nurses, and other helping professionals, translating neuroscience, attachment theory, and trauma research into accessible, practice-informed learning. She is the co-host of the Whole Person Parenting Podcast, where she explores parenting from a psychological, relational, developmental, and spiritual perspective.

The event is open to the general professional audience.

*Please note the payment transaction will appear as “Haruv Institute” (mahon harov) and the confirmation may take several hours to appear in your email.

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OU-Tulsa Learning Center, Room 136 (4502 E. 41st Street, Tulsa, OK 74135)

Morning refreshments provided, lunch on your own

Registration: $10* (includes CLE and CEUs for Social Work and Behavioral Health)

Limited number of OFR scholarships available – first come first serve, contact Allyson McCormick, allyson.mccormick@laok.org for more information

With Timothy Michaels-Johnson, J.D. & Tessa Chesher, DO, IMH-E

Having earned his Juris Doctorate with Honors from the University of Tulsa College of Law in 2011, Timothy Michaels-Johnson focused his career in child welfare. He joined the District Attorney’s Office of Tulsa County and prosecuted deprived child cases for nearly 5 years. In July 2016, Michaels-Johnson joined Tulsa Lawyers for Children representing children and training TLC’s volunteer attorneys. He subsequently served as TLC’s third Executive Director until April 2024. Michaels-Johnson now assists with the development and roll out of Oklahoma’s new central office of parent and child representation as the Region 5 Managing Attorney for Child Representation with the Oklahoma Office of Family Representation. In addition, Michaels-Johnson has returned to the University of Tulsa College of Law as an adjunct professor teaching Juvenile Law and serves as a Commissioner on the Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth.

Dr. Chesher is a child and adolescent psychiatrist interested in pediatric trauma, infant and early childhood mental health, and behavioral health integration into primary care. She is from Oklahoma and went to medical school at Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Chesher completed a psychiatry residency at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Tulsa followed by a child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship and an Irving Harris Fellowship in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health at Tulane School of Medicine. She was on faculty at Tulane School of Medicine as an instructor, OU School of Community Medicine in Tulsa, OK as an assistant clinical professor and the OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine as an associate and then full clinical professor. Dr. Chesher is the Medical Director of the Children’s Specialty Program at Oklahoma Complete Health. Dr. Chesher owns TC², offering consultation and training in infant and early childhood mental health.

Workshop description: QIC-ChildRep is an evidence-based best practice model of child representation. This training was developed to advance the QIC-ChildRep Best Practice Model and integrates key aspects of Oklahoma child welfare law and practice, including Oklahoma practice standards, with the goal of advancing high quality legal representation for attorneys representing children in Oklahoma child welfare cases.

*Please note the payment transaction will appear as “Haruv Institute” (mahon harov) and the confirmation may take several hours to appear in your email.

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