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Past Events Category: COW - Community Outreach Wisconsin

IEP 101 – In Person Training

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

This will allow training participants to better understand the IEP process, what is discussed at an IEP meeting, and how to read the IEP document.

COW IEP Training

But They Get Me! Countering Online Radicalization of Neurodivergent Youth and Adults – In Person Training

Featuring: Ellen Merker, MS, LPC
September 25, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 11:00 am
UW South Madison Partnership, 2238 South Park Street, Madison, WI 53713

Youth and young adults are becoming more and more susceptible to being manipulated into very extreme views online.

COW Training - ocean rock at sunrise

Looking Beneath the Surface of “Challenging Behavior” – In Person Training

Featuring: Angela Marx, PhD
August 6, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
UW South Madison Partnership, 2238 South Park Street, Madison, WI 53713

Discover alternative models for understanding what challenging behaviors represent and how to best support people who experience them.

COW - Beneath the surface

Trauma’s Influence on the Brain, Body, and Behavior: Promoting Healing and Well-Being – In Person Training

Featuring: Angela Marx, PhD
July 16, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
UW South Madison Partnership, 2238 South Park Street, Madison, WI 53713

This session will highlight the impact of trauma and stress on the lives of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

COW Trauma and behavior - hands holding leaves

Fun with Art – In Person Training

Featuring: Jule Davis
July 2, 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

Humanizing Mental Health – In Person Training

Featuring: Angela Marx, PhD
June 24, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
UW South Madison Partnership, 2238 South Park Street, Madison, WI 53713

If you are a human and interact with other humans, you are “doing” mental health. It is not only something “done” in offices by mental health professionals.

COW Self-Compassionate Caregiver

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
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