TLC Webinars

TLC Webinars The National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children (TLC), a program of Starr Institute for Training, is now offering webinars so professionals can view live one-hour presentations from their computer. Currently, three webinars are scheduled and listed below. We hope you will be able to register for one or two of them, [...]

TLC’s Childhood Trauma Practitioner’s Assembly

It’s time to make your plans to attend TLC’s Childhood Trauma Practitioner’s Assembly from July 12 to 16th! The Assembly will be held at the Macomb County Intermediate School District’s (MISD) new Educational Service Center. MISD is located at 44001 Garfield Road, Clinton Township, Michigan 48038-1100. This year’s program is about practices that are both trauma-informed [...]

Erin Gruwell is coming to Albion, MI

Starr Commonwealth Proudly Presents Founder’s Day 2010 Sunday October 3rd with guest speaker Erin Gruwell In Room 203 at Wilson High School in Long Beach, California, students, who were at one time deemed “unteachable,” were encouraged and promoted to rethink rigid beliefs about themselves and others and to give themselves a chance to restart their [...]

Trauma and Loss in Children

Childhood Trauma Practitioner’s Assembly July 13-16, 2010   Question: which child of a military family is more at risk for trauma– the one whose parent is being deployed for the very first time or the one whose parent has been through several of them? The answer might surprise you. It’s the second child—the one you [...]

Why is the assessment of strengths so important?

  A few years ago, Starr’s residential programs began the implementation of a true strength-based assessment tool – the Behavioral and Emotional Rating Scale: Second Edition. Completed by the youth, parents, and a teacher or clinician, results of this widely accepted tool enable us to better understand a youth’s strengths along important dimensions:  interpersonal; family; [...]

Federal funding approved for Starr Commonwealth

Christmas has come early for Starr Commonwealth in the announcement of more than $2 million in federal support for Starr Commonwealth programs and infastructure.  Lobbying the federal government involves tremendous efforts on the part of our staff and volunteers in advocating for our work with children and families. This year, President & CEO Marty Mitchell, [...]

Telepsychiatry in use at Starr Commonwealth

Using Technology in treatment of youth Dr. James Longhurst, Senior Vice President of Clinical Services & Director of Montcalm Schools The Detroit Free Press recently published a story (Video Psychiatry takes hold in state, Nov. 15, 2009) that estimates about half-a-million children across the state of Michigan are in need of help but there are [...]

OACCA’s Review of Community Roundtables on Children and Family Services

We greatly appreciate everyone who turned out to attend the OACCA Community Roundtables on Children and Family Services. Five total events were held during August and September 2009 in Cincinnati, Van Wert, Youngstown, Wooster and Cleveland.  The events drew over 150 participants, including: a Member of Congress and Congressional staff members, state legislators, county commissioners, [...]

Continued Advocacy Efforts of the Michigan Federation

The Michigan Federation for Children and Families is working hard on behalf of its member agencies to advocate for the populations they serve in the middle of the budget discussions taking place at the State Capitol. With just a week until the end of the fiscal year, the Federation continues to pursue every option available in [...]

Starr Van Wert hosts OACCA Community Roundtable Event

Meeting the needs of local youth and families despite budget cuts A community roundtable on children and family services was held Friday, Aug. 21 at the Starr Van Wert campus with the Ohio Association of Child Caring Agencies (OACCA) facilitating the event. Executives from public and private child and family service and mental health agencies [...]