Tag: Asperger Syndrome

Join Dr. Holmes as she interviews and converses with Dr. Hunsley, known as “Doc” about everyone deserves a seat at the table and every aspect of society and community, especially the faith community, should be inclusive and aware of people with differences. “Doc” has developed an excellent buddy training program for providing support to individuals with needs, from childhood to adulthood. Experience is not necessary for this buddy training but a willingness to learn and grow and be teachable about supporting individuals is the attitude in creative and inclusive ways is a must. Dr. Holmes and “Doc’ will discuss the importance of inclusive and how to train volunteers for the best inclusive practices for various settings.

Stephen “Doc” Hunsley, M.D. is the Executive Director and founder of SOAR Special Needs in Overland Park, Kansas. SOAR (Special Opportunities, Abilities, and Relationships) serves over 900 individuals with special needs through regular respite events and a Special Needs Day Camp. Doc founded and leads the Kansas City Special Needs Ministries Network, for area church leaders. Doc also organizes the Wonderfully Made Conference held annually every October in Kansas City. Prior to creating SOAR as an independent 501(c)3, Doc created the Special Needs Ministry at Grace Church in Overland Park and Olathe, Kansas, and served as the special needs pastor. Before this, Doc was a children’s pastor. Doc is a retired pediatrician while his wife, Kay, continues practicing pediatrics. They are proud parents to three beautiful children: Luke, Mark, and Sarah. The Hunsley’s middle child, Mark, is presently running the halls of heaven. During Mark’s five-year earthly stay, he gave his family the opportunity to learn from and love a child with autism. You can follow SOAR on Facebook or Connect with Doc on Twitter: @DocHunsley.
SOARSpecialNeeds.org
Wonderfully Made Conference and the entire Buddy Training talked about today can be found at https://www.wonderfullymadekc.com/ and will available until fall of 2021. You can also find this training at https://www.youtube.com/watchv=7iMiO3bZpJk&ab_channel=SOARSpecialNeeds

Join Dr. Holmes as she discusses families of special needs and the effects of trauma. She will focus on recognizing trauma, working through trauma, and building resilience in individuals and families affected by trauma. They will discuss different language and definitions of trauma as it may pertain to the families with special needs.

Michelle M. Maris, M.A. is an educator, trainer, consultant, pastor, and developmental therapist with over 30 years of experience working with children and families. Her focus is on children with developmental disabilities, autism spectrum disorder, sensory processing disorder, and those affected by trauma. Michelle has taught at the College level for over 10 years. She is a wife and mother that happily lives in 10 wooded areas surrounded by cornfields in central Illinois.
She can be contacted at MMaris@eastview.church

Join Dr. Holmes as she interviews Silvia Verga discussing the importance of the partnership of parents and providers. This podcast will focus on parents who desire for their children to succeed and be the best versions of themselves. Silvia will discuss the importance of preparing parents to effectively communicate with their child’s service provider(s)/educators in order for them to provide the best practices and delivery services for the child. The hope is this podcat will increase parent awareness and leadership potential as an ambassador to both your child’s educational and developmental growth outcomes.

Silvia is the parent of a child with autism, and has worked with a statewide Parent Training and Information Center, with YAI a large non-profit in New York City as a bilingual behavior specialist working with families of children with developmental disabilities, and served as Executive Director of NYC Parents of Children with Autism. She has worked collaboratively with Family to Family Health Centers throughout the country and is an active member of the New York Developmental Disability Planning Council. Silvia is dedicated to supporting increased student and parent advocacy for families across the country and globally. Silvia has presented on various topics related to disability and advocacy as well as facilitated leadership training in New York as well as in Brazil and Italy. She has earned her Bachelor’s degree in Interdisciplinary Studies focusing on Social Work and Psychology through Nyack College and her Master’s degree in Human Services through Liberty University. She is Certified in Leadership, Coaching, Speaking, and Training through the John Maxwell International Certification. She is fluent in Spanish, Portuguese, and Emerging ASL.

Silvia can be contacted at nycpca@gmail.com

Join Dr. Holmes as she interviews Dr. Mark Crear on the importance of cultural humility and establishing trust and rapport when working with the African/Afro-American population. Dr. Crear will explain a bit of the history of mistrust of helping agencies from this population as well as discuss bias that well-meaning professionals may have. Dr. Crear will share with clinicians and educators some pointers on how to develop cultural competency and build trust to partner with this community for best practices.  

Rev. Mark Crear, Ph.D., is a dynamic man who is no stranger to exceeding physical challenges at high levels as well as excelling within and helping to transform academic institutions. As a two-time Olympic medalist and athlete (110 Meter Hurdles), Mark understands the importance of hard work, perseverance, and focus. These attributes have helped him as a mental health educator, published author, and all the other professional hats that Dr. Crear wears. Getting his Ph.D. from Alliant International University in Clinical Psychology, graduating from the University of Southern California with a master’s degree in counseling psychology and a bachelor’s degree in sociology, calling Dr. Crear an academic would be an understatement. On top of his impressive intellectual prowess, Dr. Mark is a therapist, coach, consultant, and motivational speaker. He has over 15 years of training, counseling, and coaching experience in many different areas; they include multicultural competency, diversity & inclusion, racial reconciliation and life, relationship, and organizational & performance. As if he weren’t doing enough already, Dr. Crear is currently the executive director of the American Association of Christian Counselors’ Multicultural division and adjunct professor of psychology at Houston Baptist University. What’s Dr. Crear’s greatest achievement? It wasn’t his role as founding principal of In the Zone Coaching, Counseling, and Consulting group, or his role as a traveling minister, speaking to both corporations and churches, but instead as loving husband and doting father. 

You can find out more about Dr. Crear and his books or contact him about speaking to your organization or agency at www.markcrear.com.  

Join Dr. Holmes as she speaks with Joscelyn Campbell about how different cultures discuss and accept special needs or mental health diagnoses. Becoming multiculturally aware is important for clinicians and social workers as they partner with families to work with children with needs. Knowing about cultural diversity and differences is important in establishing a relationship with the family. This show’s focus is on Hispanic and Latino cultures.

Joscelyn Ramos Campbell is an award-winning, on-air spokesperson, author, blogger, consultant, columnist, public speaker, respite care director, and a special needs Pastor at Hope International Church in Groveland, Florida.

Born in Brooklyn, New York to Cuban and Puerto Rican parents, Joscelyn is bilingual and bicultural. She is raising a multicultural and multigenerational family, alongside her military veteran spouse of Irish American descent. Together, they have four wonderful boys; the oldest is in college, identical twins are in junior high; the youngest is in kindergarten and has Autism. With a Legal Studies educational background and a degree in Pre-Law, Joscelyn has received several national awards in communications, public relations, and social media.

Joscelyn has over a decade of experience as an award-winning former federal government public relations spokesperson. As a principal spokesperson, her marketing efforts were key in the rapid growth of federal hiring for government agencies, including the U.S. Dept. of Transportation and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

She is the creator of Mami of Multiples, one of the nation’s recognized and award-winning parenting and lifestyle websites owned by a Latina American Mom. Joscelyn has been featured on numerous television and media outlets including CBS, NBC, NBC Latino, FOX, Univision, Telemundo, Huffington Post, and CNBC to name a few. She is considered one of the top Latino social media stars and influential Hispanic American bloggers.

As a successful “mompreneur” (mom entrepreneur), Joscelyn owns Mami Innovative Media, a communications business that has brought her experience in successful branding campaigns, national media management, and exposure. Joscelyn has partnered and collaborated with well-known brands, including but not limited to, Brawny, Britax, Chevrolet, Disney, DuPont & Teflon, Ford, Florida Space Coast, General Mills, Hormel Foods, Johnson’s Baby, Kmart, Lifetime Movie Network, Marshalls, McDonald’s, Nestle, Neutrogena, Proctor & Gamble, Target, Smuckers, State Farm, Sylvan Learning Center, T.J.Maxx, Toyota, Visit Orlando, Waldorf Astoria, and Wounded Warrior Project. The “super-connected power mom” was named by LATINA Magazine as one of the Best Latina Bloggers To Follow and Must Know and one of The 10 Best Latina Mom Bloggers on the Web. Joscelyn was selected in a joint venture by Disney and LATINA Magazine to be a Parenting and Family Columnist for LATINA Magazine.

A sought-after spokesperson, she travels across the U.S. for speaking engagements and conferences and holds leadership capacities for various organizations.

Connect with Joscelyn at joscelynramoscampbell.com
Instagram @JoscelynRamosCampbell
Facebook www.facebook.com/pastorjoscelyn
Twitter @JoscelynRC

Join Dr. Holmes as she speaks with Joscelyn Campbell about how different cultures discuss and accept special needs or mental health diagnoses. Becoming multiculturally aware is important for clinicians and social workers as they partner with families to work with children with needs. Knowing about cultural diversity and differences is important in establishing a relationship with the family. Today’s focus will discuss working with individuals from Asian culture.

Joscelyn Ramos Campbell is an award-winning, on-air spokesperson, author, blogger, consultant, columnist, public speaker, respite care director, and a special needs Pastor at Hope International Church in Groveland, Florida.

Born in Brooklyn, New York to Cuban and Puerto Rican parents, Joscelyn is bilingual and bicultural. She is raising a multicultural and multigenerational family, alongside her military veteran spouse of Irish American descent. Together, they have four wonderful boys; the oldest is in college, identical twins are in junior high; the youngest is in kindergarten and has Autism. With a Legal Studies educational background and a degree in Pre-Law, Joscelyn has received several national awards in communications, public relations, and social media.

Joscelyn has over a decade of experience as an award-winning former federal government public relations spokesperson. As a principal spokesperson, her marketing efforts were key in the rapid growth of federal hiring for government agencies, including the U.S. Dept. of Transportation and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

She is the creator of Mami of Multiples, one of the nation’s recognized and award-winning parenting and lifestyle websites owned by a Latina American Mom. Joscelyn has been featured on numerous television and media outlets including CBS, NBC, NBC Latino, FOX, Univision, Telemundo, Huffington Post, and CNBC to name a few. She is considered one of the top Latino social media stars and influential Hispanic American bloggers.

As a successful “mompreneur” (mom entrepreneur), Joscelyn owns Mami Innovative Media, a communications business that has brought her experience in successful branding campaigns, national media management, and exposure. Joscelyn has partnered and collaborated with well-known brands, including but not limited to, Brawny, Britax, Chevrolet, Disney, DuPont & Teflon, Ford, Florida Space Coast, General Mills, Hormel Foods, Johnson’s Baby, Kmart, Lifetime Movie Network, Marshalls, McDonald’s, Nestle, Neutrogena, Proctor & Gamble, Target, Smuckers, State Farm, Sylvan Learning Center, T.J.Maxx, Toyota, Visit Orlando, Waldorf Astoria, and Wounded Warrior Project. The “super-connected power mom” was named by LATINA Magazine as one of the Best Latina Bloggers To Follow and Must Know and one of The 10 Best Latina Mom Bloggers on the Web. Joscelyn was selected in a joint venture by Disney and LATINA Magazine to be a Parenting and Family Columnist for LATINA Magazine.

A sought-after spokesperson, she travels across the U.S. for speaking engagements and conferences and holds leadership capacities for various organizations.

Connect with Joscelyn at joscelynramoscampbell.com
Instagram @JoscelynRamosCampbell
Facebook www.facebook.com/pastorjoscelyn
Twitter @JoscelynRC

Join Dr. Holmes as she interviews Dr. Grcevich and they discuss adolescents on the autism spectrum. Dr. Grcevich discusses why adolescents tend to be missed and what is happening that tends to bring teens for evaluation. As a clinical associate professor for the Department of Psychiatry at NE Ohio Medical University, he discusses medication and how the autistic brain responds differently to psychotropic medications. This is a great segment for clinicians, psychiatrists, general practitioners, and parents for discussing mental health issues that can occur co-morbidly for those on the spectrum.

Dr. Stephen Grcevich (MD, Northeast Ohio Medical University) serves as the founder and President of Key Ministry. He is a child and adolescent psychiatrist who serves as the primary vision caster and spokesperson for Key and plays an important role in Key’s efforts to develop collaborations with church leaders, professionals, and organizations both within and outside the disability ministry movement. He blogs at Church4EveryChild is a regular contributor for both Moody Radio Cleveland and the ERLC and frequently speaks at national and international ministry conferences on mental health and spiritual development. His first book, Mental Health, and the Church was published by Zondervan in 2018. In his professional life, he is an experienced clinician, teacher, and researcher, with over 35 presentations at national and international medical conferences and a past recipient of the Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).
For more information: https://www.keyministry.org/staff-churches
And for the book:https://www.keyministry.org/mentalhealthandthechurch

Join Dr. Holmes as she interviews Amy Cox of Developing Potential concerning the issue that surrounds employment and the autism community. They will discuss a look at what has happened to employment for persons with special needs in the wake of Covid-19 including the impact of the change in unemployment to the social model of disability.

Amy Cox is the Development Director for Developing Potential, Inc. overseeing DPI’s presence in the communities in which they provide services as well as fundraising, advocacy, volunteer management, advertising, and marketing for the organization. Ms. Cox has served in a direct support role for DPI Employment Connections program and meets with prospective community employers and individuals seeking employment. Amy earned two BA degrees at the University of Missouri – Columbia. Ms. Cox began working for Developing Potential as a contractor in 2001 supporting DPI’s growth in the community before coming on board full-time in 2014. Amy has three children, Reagan, Noah, and Olivia.

Find out more at:
https://developingpotential.org/who-we-are

Join Dr. Holmes as she interviews Jeremy Hamburgh, referred to as the Hitch for the autistic and special needs community by The Atlantic in 2013. The article by Rula AL-Nasrawi quotes, “Jeremy Hamburgh is a New York-based dating coach for both neurotypical people and people with disabilities. He’s a Hitch for those who can hardly flirt, and he spends hours hiding behind bookshelves and potted plants in bars and restaurants as his clients attempt to initiate conversation, then offers feedback later. Hamburgh also leads workshops at Adaptations, a program through the Manhattan Jewish Community Center that teaches life skills to people with developmental disorders.” (Atlantic, Nov. 25, 2013). In a pre-show interview, Dr. Holmes asked about Hamburgh’s journey into relational coaching and he stated that in spending time with the autistic community there were much he did not know and was willing to talk to the autistic community and learn what works for them and what they are looking for in relationships. Hamburgh’s approach is not about masking or neuro-typicalizing but helping his clients be the best version of themselves to live an authentic life in friendships and romantic relationships.

Jeremy Hamburgh is the founder of My Best Social Life, where he is the first dating and friendship coach in the world to focus exclusively on transforming the social lives of autistic young adults. His clients make new friends, start dating, and attract a loving partner in less time than they ever thought possible. Using a science-based social strategy, Jeremy helps young adults with autism escape their loneliness and live a vibrant social life, filled with amazing friends and partners. Since 2010, his clients have met countless new people, made tons of new friends, gone on great dates, started amazing relationships…and even gotten married. And he helps them do it with a commitment to compassion and sensitivity that you won’t find anywhere else.

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