Western Reserve Area Agency on Aging Presents:

Treating Addiction Across Generations: Tweets Vs. Talking and Everything In between

 Can generational differences interfere with effective treatment when there is a significant age gap between clients and clinicians? Do similar issues occur when a supervisor is from a different generation than the staff who report to them? Has the electronic era created a communication barrier that causes rapport between the generations to diminish?  Attend to discuss and overcome these and other generationally driven issues that create challenges when providing targeted treatment to clients and building synergistic treatment teams.

Learning Objectives:                                                                           

• Practice with case studies involving treatment and leadership issues in cross-generational parings.
• Describe the impact of the choice of communication modalities on team and client processes and outcomes.
• Identify options to overcome communication and generational differences and foster synergy between supervisors, staff and clients.

Time: 9:00am – 12:15pm (Registration begins at 8:30am)

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Sex and the Single Senior

Why should the social service professional care whether or not their senior client is sexually active? Questions regarding sex and the senior almost always seem invasive, and no one really wants to ask them, even though the answers might be vital to the health and safety of our senior clients. Attend this workshop to learn how to comfortably interview seniors about sex related matters. Join us to discuss healthy senior sexuality, the rise of STDs as Baby Boomers age, the impact of Viagra on senior life, online senior dating, and senior sexual abuse. Leave with a better understanding of the sexual habits of today’s seniors.

 Learning Objectives:

• Identify gaps in personal knowledge of senior sexual behavior.
• Demonstrate how to instruct seniors as to how to be sure they are having safe sex.
• Explain how aging impacts sexual activity and appreciate the psychological and physiological benefits and challenges of senior sex.
• Compare the pros and cons of online dating for seniors.
• Recognize the rise of specific STDs in the senior population.
• Describe the signs of senior sexual abuse.

Time: 1:00pm – 4:15pm (Registration begins at 12:30pm)

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Speaker: Rita Rizzo is the Principal of Rizzo & Associates LLC, an Ohio based consulting and training firm established in 1984. She holds a Master’s Degree in Training and Human Resource Management from the University of Leicester in Leicester, England, (1999) and received her undergraduate education in the fields of psychology and nursing. Rita has been a professional development trainer for over three decades and is the author of the books Greater Woman in a Lesser World (2015), Family Footprints (2015), The Culture of Generational Poverty: Providing Meaningful Help to the Impoverished (2009) and co-author of the books Workplace Violence: A Seven Step Process to Address and Manage Potentially Violent Situations in the Workplace (2010) and Health Mind Body Soul (2012). Rita has 33 years of experience training social service, healthcare and government professionals. The training topics Rita offers include diversity, workforce violence and bullying prevention, leadership, management, team building, customer service and professional development.

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CEU Information: 

• Each program is approved for 3.0 continuing education units for LSWs, LISWs, SWA, Nurses (via reciprocity with the SW board).
• The Ohio Board of Nursing will accept sessions approved for Social Workers for Continuing Nurse Education.
• To comply with the State of Ohio Counselor and Social Worker Board: Late Arrivals will NOT be admitted.

Views and written materials presented during the presentations are those of the individual presenter and do not necessarily represent the official views and/or opinions of the Western Reserve Area Agency on Aging.

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