Free Parents Awareness Seminar at Trinity Cranford, Thursday March 20th at 7:00 PM

Free Parents Awareness Seminar at Trinity Cranford,

Thursday March 20th at 7:00 PM

Trinity Episcopal Church in Cranford and Youth & Family Counseling Service in Westfield are presenting a
free awareness seminar for the parents of teenagers on Thursday March 20, 2014
at 7:00 PM in Witherington Hall at Trinity Episcopal Church, 119
Forest Avenue, Cranford, New Jersey. The purpose of the seminar is to help parents
to be able to distinguish between normal teenage behavior and abnormal behavior
which could result in a crisis and the knowledge about what steps to take in a
crisis. “The seminar was born from our repeated experience in responding to teenage
crises including suicide,” said Dr.
Gina Walsh-Minor, Rector of Trinity Episcopal Church. “Parents are constantly
challenged with differentiating between normal “acting out” behaviors versus
dangerous or crisis behaviors in their teenagers, said Carol M. Pedro, Executive Director of Youth &
Family Counseling Service in Westfield.
We are hoping to help parents identify alarming or crisis behaviors early-on and
what steps to take if they do, she continued. The seminar is part of the “Do
Anything:  A Collaboration of Love”
series to help educate and empower the parents of teens. Everyone is invited to
attend.

The special guest speaker
for this seminar is Kathy
Crescenzi, board certified advance practice nurse. Kathy’s
entire career has been in the field of mental health. She brings many years of
experience in hospital settings and has extensive expertise in psychiatric
evaluations, prescribing and monitoring medications, and psychotherapy.  Kathy has won several awards and also
taught undergraduate and graduate students at Rutgers UMDNJ and Fairleigh Dickinson University.
She
will focus on mental health issues in teenagers.

The Youth and Family Counseling Service provides traditional counseling
to individuals, couples and families.  It
provides services for all age groups: children, teenagers, young adults and
senior citizens. It offers low cost sessions or free support groups to assist
with the community members in need. It also provides programs in the community to assist parents, civic
organizations and community leaders to address the need for early intervention
in diagnosing and treating mental illness and substance abuse BEFORE a tragedy
(like the recent suicides or overdoses of teens) occurs. For more information
about the Youth and Family Counseling Service, please
visit: www. yfcsnj.org

Trinity Episcopal
Church is a family church that has been serving the needs of Cranford
area families since 1872.  Sunday services
are at 8 AM and 10 AM and are celebrated by The Reverend Gina Walsh-Minor,
Rector Trinity Episcopal Church.  For more information about Trinity please
call 908-276-4047 or visit http://www.trinitycranford.org/.
 Trinity also provides Trinity Episcopal Day
School (TEDS) for area families. TEDS is a state licensed facility serving
children from 2 1/2 years through Kindergarten, providing a nurturing, learning
environment which promotes intellectual, emotional, social, spiritual and
physical growth. Program options include Full or 1/2 days from 2-5 days a week,
extended Hours: 7:00 AM – 6:00 PM, and Kindergarten Wrap Around. For more
information about TEDS, please cal 908-276-2881 or visit
http://tedscranford.org 

Thursday
March 20, 2014 7:00PM to 8:30 PM

At Trinity
Episcopal Church (Witherington Hall)

119 Forest Avenue, Cranford, NJ

Early Warning signs
of teen issues and what to do about them

All are welcome

For more information contact:

(908) 276-4047

Or visit http://www.trinitycranford.org/