Training:

[FosterEd] Girls on the Brink: Raising Emotionally Healthy Girls

Nov 19
Tuesday, November 19, 2024 – 7:00am
7:00am - 8:30am

Audience: Caregivers & Professionals

Level: Intermediate
Ages addressed: 0-18

PLEASE NOTE: To receive a certificate of attendance for the live webinar, attendees must register individually, attend the entire training, and watch from their own device to ensure proper tracking

In this lecture for parents and professionals, science journalist and author Donna Jackson Nakazawa will explore the causes of the mental health epidemic facing girls today and revelatory new strategies to help girls thrive. Donna will deftly braid together the latest findings from the annals of neuroscience to show why so many girls today are struggling and share insightful new strategies to help them live well in troubled times.

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Location:

FosterEd Adopt Minnesota - Webinar

https://www.fosteradoptmn.org/

Donna Jackson Nakazawa is an award-winning science journalist and author of eight books exploring the connections between emotions, trauma, and health, offering pathways to healing. Donna’s book, Girls on the Brink: Helping Our Daughters Thrive in an Era of Increased Anxiety, Depression, and Social Media, was named a best book of 2022 by The Washington Post. Her bestselling book, Childhood Disrupted, was a finalist for the Books for a Better Life Award, and The Angel and the Assassin: The Tiny Brain Cell That Changed the Course of Medicine, was named a best book of 2020 by Wired. Her newest book, The Adverse Childhood Experiences Guided Journal (foreword by Nedra Glover Tawwab), offers targeted writing techniques to help readers recognize the effects of childhood adversity and reset their brain's internal stories for neurobiological resilience, and is based on Donna’s popular narrative writing-to-heal program, Your Healing Narrative.