EXPERT: Thomas E. Brown, Ph.D.
Tuesday, July 23 @ 1pm Eastern Time - Register now!
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Many children and adults with ADHD find stimulant medications effective in managing their symptoms, but fine-tuning a medication to a person’s symptoms and body chemistry is always a team effort. Prescribers rely on parents and adult patients to report improvements, gaps in coverage, or side effects, then use this information to determine needed adjustments.
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The expert Q&A webinar How to Optimize Stimulant Treatment for Children and Adults: Better Symptom Management Without Side Effects will take place Tuesday, July 23, 2019, from 1pm-2pm Eastern Time (ET) / 12pm-1pm CT; 11am-12pm MT; 10am-11am PT.
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Thomas E. Brown, Ph.D.
Thomas E. Brown, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, Director of the Brown Clinic for Attention & Related Disorders in Manhattan Beach, California, and Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. Dr. Brown is the author of six books on ADHD, including Smart but Stuck: Emotions in Teens and Adults with ADHD, as well as the Brown Attention Deficit Disorder Scales for Children, Adolescents, and Adults. Dr. Brown’s website is: BrownADHDClinic.com.
Pills and Beyond: A Guide to the Formulations and Delivery Options of ADHD Medication
EXPERT: Laurie Dupar, PMHNP, RN, PCC
Thursday, August 1 @ 1pm Eastern Time - Register now!
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In the past, the treatment of ADHD was largely limited to short-acting pills. Thankfully, a more diverse range of ADHD treatment formulations and delivery systems is available today. But what differentiates these options? And how do you know which one(s) may be right for you or a loved one?
In this webinar, you will learn:
The expert Q&A webinar Pills and Beyond: A Guide to the Formulations and Delivery Options of ADHD Medication will take place Thursday, August 1, 2019, from 1pm-2pm Eastern Time (ET) / 12pm-1pm CT; 11am-12pm MT; 10am-11am PT.
MEET THE SPEAKER:
Laurie Dupar, PMHNP, RN, PCC
Laurie Dupar, PMHNP, RN, PCC, is a senior certified ADHD Coach, trained psychiatric nurse, and founder of the International ADHD Coach Training Center. She specializes in working with clients who have been diagnosed with ADHD and who want to understand how their brain works, minimize their challenges, and get things done. For more information about Laurie’s programs, visit coachingforadhd.com.
Weber County: - The Weber-Morgan Health Department, Weber Human Services and the Weber County Commission have selected Melissa Freigang as the Director of the newly created Prosperity Center of Excellence an inter-agency effort. Commenting on this new direction, Weber-Morgan Health Department Executive Director Brian Bennion stated, “There is tremendous synergy in our community to work together to improve the lives of our residents, but no one agency can do it alone. We see this center as an opportunity to align all our efforts to better address the quality of life for those who struggle with poverty, housing, access to healthy foods and other areas that affect health and well-being.”
“I would like to thank the Commissioners and Executive Directors for this opportunity. I am looking forward to providing leadership, alignment, and engagement of cross-sector collaboration among stakeholders to implement actionable strategies to combat our community’s most pressing social challenges,” said Melissa Freigang. Freigang was chosen from 29 candidates from across the state to create and implement a strategy to align the goals of these three agencies.
Previously, Freigang led the intergenerational poverty initiative, which emphasized boosting family resiliency and creating communities where children can exercise the power of self-determination. Two of her programs include the Integrated Community Action Now (I-CAN) demonstration project and the Career Path Partnership Program, which pairs up participants with workforce mentors. The two programs are expected to flourish under the new unified partnership.
Weber Human Services Executive Director, Kevin Eastman, expressed his excitement of the new program commenting, “Weber Human Services and the Weber-Morgan Health Department merged our separate Prevention Departments into the ‘Prosperity Center of Excellence’ in order to address two main points: Provide a singular physical location and point person for the community and improve our position for future funding in a collective approach instead of competing with each other.”
Commenting on the programs, Commissioner Scott Jenkins stated, “I appreciate we are getting to the right to the heart of the issue. We are entering their lives, identifying and fostering skill sets, getting them jobs, and building confidence. This confidence then resounds in their children as they look to tackle the world.”
Commissioner Jim Harvey stated, “We want to extend our gratitude to LSI. This is exactly why, in some scenarios, it's best to use a contractor. With LSI, we were able to create and test programs using their teams and expertise cost-effectively.” He continued, “LSI helped us with our 2017 Strategic Plan at a cost of $60,000. And in 2018, their efforts earned Weber County two grants worth $381,000 to work with families in our county who are experiencing intergenerational poverty. This meant we were able increase your money six-fold to create a stronger, long-term program.”
Commissioner Gage Froerer stated, “One of my campaign promises has been to streamline better the many agencies in Weber County who are already working hard to address poverty.” Froerer continued, “Melissa will coordinate all of these efforts and communicate between our agencies and local non-profits to increase their effectiveness and reduce costs and duplicity.”
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SHOW ME SHOWS US. When the Kansas City business community first started tackling how best to improve the city’s schools, they tried everything. From the biggest installation of Teach for America to lots of money, nothing worked. Finally former Kaufmann Foundation president Carl Schramm thought to himself, let’s model a good school. So they invested in a charter, hired a faculty...bought a campus from a failing church, started the Ewing Marion Kauffman School to create college graduates...and it worked! Most of its 5th graders came in reading at the FIRST grade level and now every one of their graduates received early admission to college and Kauffman’s valedictorian is headed to Yale! Now that’s education!
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS. We just can’t help but see the incongruity of the logic still in the political classes today who can’t conceive of why schools like the one above (or below) need to exist - and grow! But the Diverse Charter Schools Coalition and its fearless director Sonia Park help us see through the Alice in Wonderland -like looking glass that seems to color a lot of the media these days, and sets the record straight in the New York Times, pointing out that the amazing diversity of charter schools across the country.
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ARE WISING UP. The Wall Street Journal reports enrollment at four year colleges fell almost 20% from 2018, but the number of college students under age 18 is up - because of high demand dual-enrollment classes where high school students can also take college courses. The reason is not rocket science to anyone except ossified educrats - learners take advantage of pathways and options when they are offered. With a hat tip to Kevin Costner, offer it and they will come.
EVEN BETTER THAN A CALIFORNIA CABERNET is this column by the former General Counsel of the L.A.U.S.D. in the Sonoma County Gazette, making a water-tight case for personalized learning, and that as good as it is, it can’t fully succeed without active parental involvement. His bottom line, “There are traditional public schools and charters that have embraced change and validated that it works. Test scores are up. Dropouts are down. Discipline problems have shrunk. College-going is up. Their students are empowered.” This may be self-evident to many of us, but here’s hoping his former colleagues still at the L.A.U.S.D. - who seem to be consumed with restricting the kinds of schools that gave birth to personalized learning like The Alliance for College Ready Public Schools - read and take to heart his words of wisdom.
ALPHA STUDENTS AT ALPHA ACADEMY. CER’s Founder & CEO Jeanne Allen recently gave the commencement address at Alpha Academy, a charter school in Fayetteville, North Carolina whose Katherine G. Johnson S.T.E.M. Institute, named after the NASA Pioneer, is the only one of its kind. Mrs. Johnson’s impact on American history, as well as her love for mathematics and teaching, led Alpha Academy to choose her as the face of its inspiration. Jeanne told the students that people like Katherine Johnson pushed the limits of what is possible, and that space exploration and science have created so many of the products and tools that save lives today. “Pushing beyond the boundaries of convention is what your teachers and your parents do everyday. Help them succeed by being your success. This charter makes that possible," she told the parents. "Protect it and grow it,” Jeanne said, to much applause.
RADICAL IS NOT A FOUR LETTER WORD. The first definition for “radical” listed in Webster’s is: “Especially of change or action - relating to or affecting the fundamental nature of something; far-reaching or thorough.” The guest on Jeanne's podcast this week is a living example of that. Self-described “radical educator” Dennis Littky talks about his ideas for making education meaningful, impactful and relevant to individual students. Through his work as a school leader and founder of College Unbound, Dennis serves students whose needs are not met by traditional education and adults who are among the 37 million college dropouts. College Unbound creates education specifically around their interests while allowing them to get a degree while also working full time. We need more “radicals” like Dennis.
CER CHANNELS HOTEL CALIFORNIA. Remember the Hotel California? You could check out any time you like but you could never leave? We are delighted to have had that effect on Michael Musante, a CER alum and longtime advisor who this week officially re-joins us as Executive Vice President. Welcome back Michael!
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UNITED UTAH PARTY RECOMMENDS A NON-PARTISAN UTAH COUNTY COMMISSION
Urges Utah County Commission Challenge the State on the Prohibition on Non-Partisan Elections
As the Utah County Commission considers placing a referendum on the November ballot in response to an advisory group recommendation to change their form of government, the United Utah Party suggests that they add an additional reform to a voter referendum that would make the county commissioner elections non-partisan. The party says the referendum should include language removing party affiliations from the ballot.
Many states currently have non-partisan county commissions, including, for example, Kansas, Oregon, North Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Two Utah counties - Morgan and Grand - currently have non-partisan county commissioners and other county elected officials.
“Non-partisan municipal elections are the norm throughout the state for municipal and school board elections,” said Richard Davis, the United Utah Party chair. "And, at the county level, they are becoming more common across the nation. Utah County should do the same."
"It is no accident that increasingly, county governments recognize that they don’t benefit from being drawn into the tired partisan template,” Davis said. "The kinds of problems addressed by county governments aren’t necessarily ideological or partisan. When the County Commission is trying to find practical solutions, partisanship adds an element of conflict that just isn’t necessary. It tends to warp the decision-making process and make it more difficult to achieve consensus. And county officials nominated by the party feel beholden to the party rather than to the citizens.”
Davis acknowledges that Utah State Code currently prohibits counties from holding non-partisan elections for county offices. The two Utah counties with non-partisan elections were "grandfathered" because they were non-partisan when the code was changed in 2000.
Davis urges the Utah County Commission to challenge that prohibition. "There is no reason the state should be micromanaging whether a county can choose to elect their own officials through parties or not," Davis said. "This was simply a way of extending the power of a party into the county level where it really doesn't belong."
The United Utah Party supports non-partisan county elections across the state. "We know this may seem strange for a political party to be advocating non-partisan elections," Davis explained. "But we just don't believe this grassroots level of government is well served by connections with political parties. This is a common-sense idea that puts people over party,” Davis said.
