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  • COW IEP Training
    Sep 30
    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
  • COW Training - ocean rock at sunrise
    Sep 25
    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
  • COW - Beneath the surface
    Aug 6
    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
  • COW Trauma and behavior - hands holding leaves
    Jul 16
    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
  • Art is Fun! Cow Training
    Jul 2
    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
  • COW Self-Compassionate Caregiver
    Jun 24
    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
  • Jun 9
    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 back, who to call for back up, and “when to duck.” This seminar is designed to put order to the …

  • Art is Fun! Cow Training
    Jun 4
    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
  • May 14
    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 better, we do better! Explore how to be an ally and foster genuine neurodivergent happiness, health and, flourishing across the …

  • COW Recognizing Power Dynamics
    Apr 30
    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 personhood and autonomy. This complicated relationship can be wrought with disagreements that may lead to power struggles and attempts to …

    COW Recognizing Power Dynamics
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