Upcoming Events - Mental Health Association of Fauquier County

Finding Your Joy Through the Holidays… Through Music

Date: December 14, 2023

Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Location: Virtual Event

Lunch & Learn

Join us in holiday spirit for an uplifting Lunch & Learn: Finding Your Joy Through the Holidays …Through Music. We will be joined by Mary Shapiro, therapeutic musician, to learn about music’s power for connection, healing, and transformation. We will share tools and ways to use music to connect socially, improve mood, regulate emotions, and bring joy through the holidays and year-round. This event will include time to tell stories and sing-along (or just listen)–so come prepared to share your favorite music-themed memories, if you wish!

About Mary Shapiro: Mary Shapiro is a performer, songwriter, educator, and founder of Sounds of Hope, a mobile therapeutic music service, based in Marshall, Virginia. The journey with her mother and father through dementia and depression inspired her to serve older adults and their families. She is well-versed in the Music & Memory® program and a trained facilitator for the Stress-Busting Program for Family Caregivers™ through George Mason University. Mary provides therapeutic music for people with dementia at senior living homes and for those in hospice care. In 2024, she will complete her training with the Music for Healing and Transitions program as a Certified Music Practitioner.

Learning Objectives –

Participants will learn:

What is therapeutic music, its uses, and outcomes
Strategies for using music as a tool for social connection
Ways music can be used to improve mood and regulate emotions during difficult life stages
Actions we can take to implement principles of therapeutic music in our day-to-day lives

Parenting With Presence

Date: January 11, 2024

Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Location: Zoom

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Lunch & Learn

Our January Lunch & Learn aims to help families get off to the right foot with with a focus on parenting with presence for 2024. Tips for balancing obligations, limiting distractions of the screens, and the importance for being present in our daily interactions with youth will be discussed. More details to follow.

January 11, 2024 from 12pm-1pm. See you there!

Youth Mental Health First Aid

Date: February 1, 2024

Time: 9:00 am - 3:30 pm

Location: PATH Foundation, 321 Walker Dr. Warrenton, VA 20186

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Youth Mental Health First Aid

Youth Mental Health First Aid is designed to teach parents, family members, caregivers, teachers, school staff, peers, neighbors, health and human services workers, and other caring citizens how to help an adolescent (age 12-18) who is experiencing a mental health or addictions challenge or is in crisis. Youth Mental Health First Aid is primarily designed for adults who regularly interact with young people.

The course introduces common mental health challenges for youth, reviews typical adolescent development, and teaches a 5-step action plan for how to help young people in both crisis and non-crisis situations. Topics covered include anxiety, depression, substance use, disorders in which psychosis may occur, disruptive behavior disorders (including ADHD), and eating disorders.

Contact: Bridget Downey with any questions or to request accommodations, at
(540) 341-8732 or bdowney@mhafc1.org

Healthy Relationships & Boundaries

Date: February 8, 2024

Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Location: Zoom

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Lunch & Learn

Details coming soon.

CARE Training

Date: February 9, 2024

Time: 9:00 am - 1:00 pm

Location: PATH Building - 321 Walker Drive, Warrenton, VA 20186

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Community Event

Child-Adult Relationship Enhancement (CARE) is a trauma-informed way for any adult to interact with any child or teen. It seeks to increase positive child-adult interaction, child compliance, and child engagement.

CARE uses ideas and skills derived from evidence-based, positive parenting programs. CARE is not therapy, but can compliment ongoing therapeutic services. Participants will learn a skillset that will enhance child-adult relationships in any setting and with a multitude of child populations, ages 2-18.

This training is for any adult who works with youth and wants to improve interactions – parents, grandparents, child-care workers, youth ministers, educators, counselors.

Youth Mental Health First Aid

Date: February 22, 2024

Time: 9:00 am - 3:30 pm

Location: PATH Foundation, 321 Walker Dr. Warrenton, VA 20186

Register here

Youth Mental Health First Aid

Youth Mental Health First Aid is designed to teach parents, family members, caregivers, teachers, school staff, peers, neighbors, health and human services workers, and other caring citizens how to help an adolescent (age 12-18) who is experiencing a mental health or addictions challenge or is in crisis. Youth Mental Health First Aid is primarily designed for adults who regularly interact with young people.

The course introduces common mental health challenges for youth, reviews typical adolescent development, and teaches a 5-step action plan for how to help young people in both crisis and non-crisis situations. Topics covered include anxiety, depression, substance use, disorders in which psychosis may occur, disruptive behavior disorders (including ADHD), and eating disorders.

Contact: Bridget Downey with any questions or to request accommodations, at
(540) 341-8732 or bdowney@mhafc1.org