[Home-on-the-Range] FW: ConnectCenter Webinars: Empower Yourself – Including a virtual origami session coming up Saturday!

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From: 'Chancey Fleet' via Technology Programs at Andrew Heiskell Braille & Talking Book Library <HeiskellTech at googlegroups.com> 
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Subject: Fwd: ConnectCenter Webinars: Empower Yourself – Including a virtual origami session coming up Saturday!

Hello everyone, please note the latest events from our friends at APH. These are free and open to the public and include offerings for youth and adults. Please contact APH directly with any questions.

Reply-To: APH ConnectCenter <connectcenter at aph.org>

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The APH ConnectCenter includes FamilyConnect, CareerConnect, and VisionAware – a hub of websites that offer curated advice and resources to assist children, parents, adults, job seekers who are blind or visually impaired, and their associated professionals, leading to greater independence and success in their lives.

Origami, Making Folding Fun  
April 23, 2022, 12:00 – 1:30 PM EST
Have you ever encountered those intricate paper creations that someone folded into tiny swans, boats, or even flowers? Have you ever thought, “how can folding paper be fun?” Origami, or traditional Japanese paper folding is an art that’s typically taught through visual images. Over the last few years, a group of friends have worked together to make origami accessible to blind and low-vision people through written instructions. So pull out some pieces of paper and join Lisamaria Martinez for a 90 minute fun and informative exploration of origami, and unlock your inner artist! This workshop is recommended for teens and adults. Materials Recommended: 3 to 5 pieces of printer paper; origami paper is great, but not necessary    
Register Here for Origami, Making Folding Fun <https://aph.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f36877787e431c3edc0020ff5&id=4aafafe559&e=b4dba2d04c> 

May 4, 2022, 7:30 – 8:30 PM EST
ParentConnect: a family support group offered in partnership with The Chicago Lighthouse’s Virtual Parent Support Group. (Ongoing)
APH FamilyConnect and The Chicago Lighthouse are pleased to offer this virtual support group for parents and families of children who are blind or visually impaired. These monthly sessions are for families to connect with and learn from each other about the joys, challenges, and adventures of raising children with visual impairments and blindness. These sessions are open to families. You only need to register once for this ongoing series. No ACVREP or professional development credits will not be available.
Register Here for the ParentConnect Support Group <https://aph.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f36877787e431c3edc0020ff5&id=e49d8e6a35&e=b4dba2d04c> 

Career Conversations with Psychologist, Heidi Joshi
May 5, 2022, 6:00 – 7:00 PM EST
Join the team at APH CareerConnect for our very popular Career Conversations 
Series. Richard Rueda, Digital Content Manager , and guest cohosts will welcome, introduce, and engage with working blind and low vision professionals from all backgrounds. Doctors, lawyers, teachers, Musicians, Scientists, and many others will step onto the CareerConnect stage on zoom throughout 2022. Each interview will begin with a discussion on how our featured working professional started and ended up in their career, including how advocacy, determination and confidence played a role throughout their successful journey.  
The remainder of the hour-long session will provide an opportunity for Transition age students and curious job seekers to follow up with  choice career related questions. Registered attendees including young adults, job seekers, teachers and rehabilitation professionals can engage with our guest through real time networking by practicing informational interviewing. 
Join us and meet Heidi Joshi, Psychologist,  
Behavioral Health Manager with John Muir Health Family Medicine Residency. 
As a Licensed Psychologist and accomplished leader in Behavioral Health, Heidi excels in building and leading educational programs for medical and graduate students, fellows, and residents while overseeing clinical activities and personally treating patients of all ages across multiple areas of mental health. 
In her current role as Behavior Health Manager and Faculty for Family Medicine Residency at John Muir Health, Heidi leads training, patient treatment, and residents’ clinical hours while overseeing two rotations for 24 residents (in their first and third year of the program). Heidi also instructs residents in depression management, motivational interviewing, communications, and physician wellness. Join CareerConversations on May 5 as we meet Heidi Joshi and learn how her blindness doesn’t stop her from achieving her professional goals and ambitions. 
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April 23, 2022, 6:00 – 7:00 PM EST
Fighting Through Frustration: Emotional Regulation Strategies 
Academy Audience:  Elementary school students   
Frustration and Anger are normal feelings, but what we do when we have those feelings can have big consequences. Students in this class will learn to recognize those feelings when they appear in their body and discuss healthy and appropriate ways to deal with them. Learners will be engaged in light informal discussions and lecture style teaching and we will be supported to come up with a Frustration Plan that they can implement next time they are angry or frustrated, plans will include redirection strategies, mantras and quick scripts that they can practice so they won't be overtaken with emotion.
Register Here for Fighting Through Frustration: Emotional Regulation Strategies <https://aph.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f36877787e431c3edc0020ff5&id=1d2cc8d131&e=b4dba2d04c>  

April 27, May 11, and May 25, 2022, 6:00 – 7:00 PM EST
College Prep Series
Academy Audience:  High school and post-high school students   
SESSION TITLES:  
April 27: College Prep – How to Make a Good Match  
May 11: College Prep – How to Determine if You’re REALLY Ready 
May 25: College Prep – How Do I Chose a Major and Other Important Questions 
When you’re asked the question, what do you want to do after high school, it might be easy to say, “I’m going to go to college.”  But just what IS college in 2022?  And how can you make sure you have the knowledge and skills to really prepare for the changes that college-and life after high school, will ask of you. We will explore this and more in this three session Excel Academy series.   
Attending college and entering the workforce with vision loss requires that you work now, to be the advocate and student that colleges assume you’re going to be. There are many ways to think about your post high school education to help you meet your goals.  This series will help you understand how to search for a college (they are not all the same!), consider the skills (academic and blindness skills) you need to meet the demands, and to explore the pros and cons of college, including other ways to prepare for your life after high school, and entering the workforce. Topics will include college search, financial aid, choosing a major, the change in support from high school to college and work, The key to all of it?  Your own knowledge, skills, and determination to do hard things. 
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