This presentation aims to help you as an adult understand the value of building resiliency skills in our youth by: 

• Providing healthy alternatives to manage stress
• Helping with emotional regulation
• Cultivate more effective thought patterns 
• Exploring research on resiliency building and upstream crisis prevention

• Discussing evidence-based strategies so they can live their best lives

Presenter: Jenny Strom is the Director at North Shore Center. She specializes in working with children, adolescents, young adults, and families by creating a safe context from which change can occur. Jenny is devoted to helping clients navigate their way through difficult life issues, whatever those may be, in order to heal.

She has worked with clients to make positive and long-lasting changes around issues such as: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Complex trauma histories, ADHD, Anxiety, Depression, Child sexual abuse, Self-injurious behavior, Family violence/conflict, Grief and loss, as well as emotional, behavioral and relational struggles effecting children. 
 
She is intensively trained in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and believes heavily in its principles. "The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started." - Norman Cousins