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Past Events Category: COW - Community Outreach Wisconsin

Managing Threatening Confrontations – In Person Training

Featuring: Josh Lapin, MSSW
June 9, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
UW South Madison Partnership, 2238 South Park Street, Madison, WI 53713

Overview: Managing Threatening Confrontations is designed to assist you in learning how to effectively support individuals who could experience the full range of behavioral escalation. These moments often appear chaotic-when to talk, when to step …

Fun with Art – In Person Training

Featuring: Jule Davis
June 4, 2025 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
UW South Madison Partnership, 2238 South Park Street, Madison, WI 53713

Do you work with someone that is looking for an opportunity to have fun and create some cool art projects?

Art is Fun! Cow Training

Neurodivergent Flourishing: Fostering Happy, Healthy Brains & Bodies – In Person Training

Featuring: Angela Marx, PhD
May 14, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
UW South Madison Partnership, 2238 South Park Street, Madison, WI 53713

Overview: Because much of the current clinical and scholarly information around neurodivergent is deficit-based, limited, and some, even completely inaccurate, much of the clinical support is also misguided and unintentionally harmful. However, when we know …

Recognizing Power Dynamics – In Person Training

Featuring: Amanda Pandl
April 30, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 11:30 am
UW South Madison Partnership, 2238 South Park Street, Madison, WI 53713

Overview: As caregivers, we are in a close and complicated relationship with the individuals we support. We are asked to ensure certain levels of health and safety, while also giving the client the dignity of …

COW Recognizing Power Dynamics

Whose Life Is It, Anyway? – In Person Training

Featuring: Peter Leidy
April 23, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
UW South Madison Partnership, 2238 South Park Street, Madison, WI 53713

Overview: In this training session we will look at power and control in support relationships.  Many people being supported feel that others are too often telling them what to do.  Many supporters feel that guiding …

COW Training - Whose Life Is It Anyway

Whose Life Is It, Anyway? – In Person Training

Featuring: Peter Leidy
2238 South Park Street, Madison, WI 53713
February 26, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
UW South Madison Partnership

In this training session we will look at power and control in support relationships.  Many people being supported feel that others are too often telling them what to do. 

COW Managing Threatening Confrontations

Managing Threatening Confrontations – In Person Training

Featuring: Josh Lapin, MSSW
2238 South Park Street, Madison, WI 53713
February 18, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
UW South Madison Partnership

Managing Threatening Confrontations is designed to assist you in learning how to effectively support individuals who could experience the full range of behavioral escalation.

COW Managing Threatening Confrontations

IEP 101 – In Person Training

Featuring: Colin Fass & Phyllis Greenberger
2238 South Park Street, Madison, WI 53713
February 13, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
UW South Madison Partnership

An IEP (Individualized Education Plan) Training for guardians and providers who attend IEP meetings

COW IEP Training

The Double Rainbow: The Intersection of Gender Identity and Neurodivergence – In Person Training

Featuring: Ellen Merker, M.S. LPC
2238 South Park Street, Madison, WI 53713
February 6, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 11:00 am
UW South Madison Partnership

Research has shown that rates of LGBTQIA+ identification in the neurodivergent community are higher than in the general population, but little is done to provide increased and inclusive supports to them or to better understand their unique needs. 

The Double Rainbow: The Intersection of Gender Identity and Neurodivergence – In Person Training

It’s All Relational: The Ethics and Boundaries of Social Inclusion – In Person Training

Featuring: Angela Marx, PhD
2238 South Park Street, Madison, WI 53713
January 30, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
UW South Madison Partnership

Relationships are what matter most. We all need people and desire to belong. But what does true belonging and social inclusion really mean and look like?

COW Transitions
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