Understanding ADHD and Executive Functioning: Practical Strategies for Children, Teens, and Adults | Virtual

The Mental Health Board and the Center for Emotional Wellness of the Northwest Suburbs have partnered to offer this training opportunity for our BH network.

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FREE: 1 IDFPR CEUs for LSW/LCSW, LPC/LCPC, Psychologists, and ISBE CPDU’s for School Professionals (Pending)

SUMMARY

Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) impacts individuals across the lifespan, influencing academic performance, emotional regulation, relationships, and daily functioning. Central to ADHD are challenges with executive functioning—skills such as planning, organizing, focusing, and self-regulating behavior. This session provides a comprehensive overview of ADHD and executive functioning in children, adolescents, and adults. Participants will gain insight into how ADHD presents differently across ages and settings and will leave with practical, evidence-based tools to support individuals in managing executive function challenges. The training emphasizes strengths-based, neurodiverse-informed approaches that foster 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 Bilbrey, 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.