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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Participation is FREE with registration in advance.

CEUs available for social work: $10 for 1 credit hour

Lecture description: This lecture will present the speaker’s empirical research into family court responses to custody cases involving family abuse and parental alienation allegations.  These cases are often characterized as “high conflict.” The findings shed light on courts’ reluctance to believe domestic violence and particularly – child abuse – allegations by mothers against fathers; and the powerful role of crossclaims of parental alienation in reinforcing that reluctance. The findings also describe the rates at which mothers lose custody after alleging abuse.

Lecturer: Joan Meier,  Professor of Law and Director of  National Family Violence Law Center, George Washington University Law School

Prof. Joan Meier has been a clinical Law Professor for over 30 years at George Washington Law, where she founded three pioneering and nationally recognized interdisciplinary domestic violence clinical programs. She has published widely on domestic violence, custody, clinical teaching, criminal procedure, and various Supreme court decisions. Her major study “Child Custody Outcomes in Cases Involving Parental Alienation and Abuse Allegations,” funded by the National Institute of Justice, was completed in 2019. Its findings have been written about in scholarship and multiple media outlets including The Washington Post and The New Yorker.

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