Speaker Talks and Expert Panels

June is the month to highlight all the wonderful dads in our lives! Join four of our Peer Parent dads as they discuss the complexities around being the fathers of […]

Knowing what happens inside the body when one is under stress and pressure is only one piece of the puzzle to finding your way through dark times. Learning to navigate […]

Finding the right young adult transition program for your child is a daunting task. In his presentation on this topic, Dr. Gelles provides a thorough description of young adult transition […]

Jessica Blanchard will speak off the cuff and from the heart about how she shifted from “tough love” to what can be called a “harm reduction” model. She will illustrate […]

Adolescents experiencing social-emotional struggles typically experience some degree of executive functioning deficits. These challenges often lead to task avoidance (e.g., homework) as well as patterns of school refusal. Simply, students […]

Join We Are Brave Together founder, Jessica Patay, and three parent panelists as they speak on their shared experience of raising children with a disability or health challenge. Learn what […]

Michael Gilpin will be sharing his journey to recovery and how he wished his parents could have shown up knowing what they know now. Michael’s areas of focus with all […]

Life is a dance navigating through the great unknown. Sometimes that journey is a grand adventure, while other times it feels more like a horrible tragedy. The difference lies in […]

Grief is no stranger to any human being. It is love without direction. What if the crippling impacts of grief from either the death of a loved one, losing a […]

April features the following ITC Support Group Leaders: Cathy Taughinbaugh Heather Ross Paula Browne Joanne Richards About the company: CMC:Foundation for Change is dedicated to providing evidence-based tools for change […]

Sending a child to rehab is expensive and emotionally traumatic for parents and child alike; we desperately want it to work. Yet the sad truth is that it often does […]

The presentation will be on the most common themes for families around adoption and the trauma experienced by all parties. So many families face issues they did not anticipate around […]

We recently published our book H.O.M.E.: How to make home a success during and after treatment. We will introduce and teach from our guiding principles and share our knowledge that […]

Beverly is the Founder and CEO of Family Recovery Resources, LLC, and the BALM® (Be A Loving Mirror®) Institutes for Family Recovery Coach Training and Family Recovery Education. The BALM® […]

After a tragic accident in 2016 that claimed the life of my son and three of his friends, I began a search to find out what happens when we leave […]

Executive Functioning is the ability to manage one’s own academic or professional life. In essence, it is being able to figure out what to do, how to get it done, […]

Join 5 of our Peer Parents as they share their respective journeys, what they have learned along the way, and their WHY of becoming a Peer Parent for OPLM.

Christy will be talking about the unique needs experienced by those who are raising children while also managing the care of aging or ill loved ones. There’s a lot of […]

We will explore different areas of the IEP forms and the rules of the road. We will cover how to navigate road blocks and detours that may occur along the […]

“I don’t know what to say so I don’t say anything.” Is that a familiar feeling? Parents and other community leaders are often stuck between their desire to communicate their […]

Denise and Jenny will share their stories of what led up to sending their children to a wilderness program. They will highlight the differences in their children before treatment and […]