February 27 Heal KC Network Dinner Gathering

The Heal KC Network is designed to be a diverse community of church staff and others networking in the context of care, counseling, recovery, and trauma healing ministry. Imagine a citywide Body of Christ in the KC area that is working together well as it provides ministries of emotional healing.

FEATURED PRESENTER: JASON BOHN

Jason Bohn, Clinical Director of Adolescents at Renew Counseling, will share powerful examples, practical tools and a model developmentally designed to help teens “increase thriving” whether already on a path to the Ivy League or on the edge of despair and suicide by utilizing BOLD Living Skills.

Jason is the producer of the BOLD Living Skills which are based upon the evidence-based models of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy - Skills (DBT-S), ACT (Acceptance Commitment Therapy) for Adolescents in the form of DNA-V and exposure therapy. The BOLD Living Skills are designed to help young people and their families find more effective ways to manage their distress, regulate their emotions and thereby, their behaviors.

Adolescent Mental Healing: Giving Hope…Direction

“Hope without direction can too easily turn into despair.” - B. Willingham

Excellence in athletics, academics, the arts…anything… requires continuous advancing and the grit to persevere through life’s challenges. The grit literature defines “hope” as the belief that you can make tomorrow better than today regardless of the challenges.

There will be time for Q&A.

MORE ABOUT/FROM JASON BOHN:

I’m a GenX, postmodern, question everything person who happens to be blessed with parents who took in orphans, prayed for food, answered their callings & sacrificed so their children knew they were loved. That mix created an irreverent soul that has cared deeply for children, families and especially adolescents for over 30 years. I have a wonderful wife, Kori, who founded and runs the Renew Counseling Center in Olathe, a beautiful 14-year-old, Nora, twin boys (Grayson who is 9 and Jude who went to heaven way too early) & have adopted two foster siblings (9 & 7) Chandler and Milla into our home.

I have more than thirty years of experience working with and for children, youth and families catalyzing change at the individual, family, organizational and systems levels. With a Masters in clinical psychology, I have provided crisis management, intensive in-home therapy and wrap-around services for children with emotional and behavioral challenges. I have 25+ years working or volunteering with youth and young adults through youth ministry and community programs. For the past 6 years I have developed and direct the Two Tents Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) for adolescents struggling with anxiety/depression and served nearly 700 young people and their families. Recently, I have added a role with Mercy and Truth Healthcare Ministry to direct their integrated care services and add counseling services to both their locations. Soon we are opening the Mercy and Truth Family Resiliency Center at the Shawnee location to serve foster, adoptive and bio families with trauma informed care.

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