The Mental Health Board and the Center for Emotional Wellness of the Northwest Suburbs have partnered to offer this training opportunity for our Behavioral Health network.
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FREE: 1 IDFPR CEU for LSW/LCSW, LPC/LCPC, Psychologists, and ISBE CPDU’s for School Professionals
SUMMARY
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) affects individuals across all stages of life, influencing attention, organization, emotional regulation, and daily functioning. Central to ADHD are challenges with executive functioning—the skills that allow us to plan, prioritize, initiate, and sustain effort toward goals. This session provides a comprehensive look at ADHD and executive functioning in children, adolescents, and adults, offering insight into how symptoms may appear differently across ages and environments. Participants will learn practical, evidence-based tools to help individuals strengthen executive skills, improve focus and organization, and build confidence through a strengths-based, neurodiverse-informed lens.
OBJECTIVES
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Describe the relationship between ADHD and executive functioning and how challenges manifest across developmental stages and settings.
- Apply practical, evidence-based interventions to improve organization, attention, emotional regulation, and self-management in individuals with ADHD.
- Utilize strengths-based and neurodiversity-affirming strategies that promote self-awareness, independence, and success at school, home, and work.
PRESENTERS
Jacqueline Rhew, CADC, LCPC, is the co-founder of the Center for Emotional Wellness of the Northwest Suburbs. She is an expert in her field and is called upon by hundreds of school districts, family agencies and mental health facilities — locally and nationally — for consulting staff to better serve their youth. Jacqueline served as a Clinical Consultant for AMITA Health Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital for many years, and previously served as Assistant Director for the School Anxiety/School Refusal Program — a program she was instrumental in creating and developing. She has facilitated 300-plus workshops for professionals and parents — locally and nationally — on topics ranging from anxiety, school refusal, parenting, and self-injury.
Lauren Hart, MA, LBS1, has been a teacher for the past 18 years. She holds a Master’s Degree in Special Education, a Bachelor’s Degree in English Education and a Learning Behavior Specialist Certification (LBS1). Before choosing to invest her time fully into building the company in response to community need, she spent the 12 years prior as the Clinical Supervisor of Patient Education at Ascension- Alexian Brothers Behavioral Medicine, overseeing nine programs at two locations. Before leading her team at the hospital, she taught at the middle school and high school level, in the general education setting as well as in a therapeutic day school and alternative high school program.
