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Continuing Education

ACT Against Violence: Parents Raising Safe Kids Trainer Certification

January 30 & February 6, 2010 Saturdays, 9 am – 5 pm Pleasant Hill campus, Room N263
Psychologist, MFT, LCSW, RN
Instructor(s):	Della Combs MFT
Credit Hours:	14
Course #:	CECO1006
Cost:	$235.00
Materials Fee:	$60.00
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This training is offered in Spanish!

Adults and Children Together (ACT) Against Violence is the American Psychological Association’s (APA) highly acclaimed and successful, national anti-violence research-based program. The ACT mission is to educate and mobilize families, professionals and communities to prevent violence before it occurs.

JFK University in Pleasant Hill, California, is the APA’s Western Regional Training site and provider of the ACT Train-the-Trainer Workshop, serving case managers, counselors, teachers, therapists, social workers, psychologists, law enforcement personnel, clergy, nurses and physicians in the nine states of Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington.

Successful completion of the ACT Train-the-Trainer Workshop certifies participants to deliver ACT’s evidence-based Parents Raising Safe Kids curriculum to parents and child caregivers in their local communities. The ACT Train-the-Trainer Workshop provides the information, knowledge, and skills that participants need to know about child development, the effects of violence on children, and non-violent parenting skills in order to successfully lead the Parents Raising Safe Kids program.

The Train-the-Trainer Workshop curriculum is culturally sensitive and suitable for any ethnic population. Program materials for leading the Parents Raising Safe Kids program are available in English and Spanish and include the training manual, parent handbook, fact sheets, brochures and an ACT TV public service announcement on DVD.

“I recently taught the Parents Raising Safe Kids program in downtown San Francisco and was amazed by the response. I even earned enough teaching my first program to pay for the cost of the Train-the- Trainer workshop. I highly recommend this program for anyone looking to do more work with children, parents and families.”

For more detailed information about the ACT Train-the-Trainer Workshop, visit the ACT page of the Graduate School of Professional Psychology. You can return to the current page by selecting the “Register Now” button at any time.

Instructor Biography
Della Combs, MFT, Regional Director, ACT Violence
Prevention Program

Ms. Combs began her tenure at John F. Kennedy University in 2003 as adjunct faculty. In 2005, she became Core Faculty with the Graduate School of Professional Psychology MA Counseling Psychology Program where she taught Child and Adolescent Therapy A and B and Advanced Child Therapy. Ms. Combs oversees the Child and Adolescent Specialization. She teaches the Train-the-Trainer Workshops for the Adults and Children Together (ACT) Against Violence Program. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate, the Academic Standards and Curriculum Committee of the Faculty Senate, and the chair of the Graduate School of Professional Psychology Academic Standards Committee. Ms Combs has a private practice in Walnut Creek, where she works primarily with children and adolescent and their families. She is a member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT) and the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (AAMFT).