Nurtured Heart Approach

Diving Deeper with Dr. Elizabeth Sylvester & Dr. Kat Scherer

Relationship-based interventions with students and their caregivers.

This workshop presents a relationship-based approach to working with teens and their caregivers using the science of neurobiology, attachment, emotion regulation, and discipline to create healing connections. Additionally we introduce the essential attachment needs of children, and how meeting them can strengthen all interactions. We will focus on how the Nurtured Heart Approach is consistent with this science and is a useful tool in creating healing at relational, emotional and behavioral levels.

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*This event was rescheduled from an earlier date*

Speakers

Dr. Elizabeth Sylvester:

Psychologist, author, and NHA advanced trainer treating children, teens and families; specializing in work with emotionally and behaviorally intense children.

Dr. Kat Scherer:

Kat Scherer PhD, MFT, C-IAYT is a psychologist, educator and author working in Austin, Texas.

Register

Date: Tuesday, February 28th 2023

Time: 5:30 PM-7:00 PM

Prior NHA training is encouraged but not required to attend. MUHSD staff will be compensated for attendance. Registration will close on Monday the 27th at 4:00 p.m. Join us on Zoom!

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Viviana Barajas, M.A., Ed., PPS Nurtured Heart Approach Advanced Trainer

Viviana Barajas is a first-generation Mexican-American who was born and raised in California. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Human Development at UC San Diego, and received her Master’s in Educational Counseling from California State University, Stanislaus. She is the proud mother of two amazing boys and has always had a passion for helping underserved populations and for finding opportunities to promote positive relationships. Her experience includes early childhood education, non-profit community work, domestic violence and sexual assault advocacy, early intervention and prevention services for children and families, foster youth advocacy, residential treatment facility training and support, and program development. For the past 8 years, Viviana has been working exclusively to integrate the Nurtured Heart Approach as an Advanced Certified Trainer into school and agency settings and has grown a successful independent consulting business. Viviana has created a Nurtured Heart Approach mental health high school course for teens, is a certified instructor in Teen Mental Health First Aid, and is the creator of Greatness Project, a non-profit organization in the making to provide a platform for youth to share this life-changing method with other youth and adults. Her Greatness Project includes youth who are homeless, displaced, in the foster care system, and recently released youth from juvenile detention centers and in an alternative educational setting. For the past four years, she has led parent workshops through Modesto Junior College for resource families in Stanislaus County, including CASA workers, social workers, residential treatment staff, teachers, counselors, administrators, families, and community partners. She has professionally trained thousands of adult professionals, parents, and students in San Joaquin, Fresno, Kings, Stanislaus, and Merced Counties, with no plans to slow down. She has been consulting with MUHSD for 3 years.