Healthy vs Unhealthy Relationships:
What's the difference?
Team Dynamics, LLC is collaborating with the Louisiana Developmental Disabilities Council to offer the Taking Action Against Abuse in an interactive workshop. This workshop is designed to equip individuals with IDD, caregivers, families, and community partners with the knowledge and skills to recognize, prevent, and respond to abuse and neglect.
Healthy and Unhealthy Relationships—What’s the Difference?
Many people with disabilities struggle with discussing the topic of relationships, intimacy, sexuality, and safety. Healthy Relationships Matter for everyone and if you a person with an intellectual or developmental disability you need information about keeping yourself safe and having safe, healthy relationships. This information will help you make decisions about relationships and about what to do if you think your relationship is not healthy.
Learn whether you have healthy relationships.
Understand the difference between healthy and unhealthy relationships.
Learn what to do if your relationship is not healthy.
Join us to be part of the solution—because awareness leads to action, and action leads to change.
About the speakers:
Sharon Delvisco, DSW, has over 30 years of experience supporting, educating, and providing technical assistance to people with disabilities to live and work in the community, their families, their service providers. She has received the Mentorship Award, the Humanitarian Award, and the Education Award from the American Association of Intellectual Disabilities Louisiana Chapter. She also received the Professional Advocate Award from the Advocacy Center in Louisiana. She has served on FPHSA Regional Advisory Committee and State OCDD Advisory Committee. Sharon is the parent of a young man that has IDD. She has lived experience as a person with long-term, persistent, chronic mental illness. Sharon is also a member of the LGBTQIA+ community.
Dr. Rebecca Mandal-Blasio is the Clinical Director in Louisiana for Autism Spectrum Therapies and is a BCBA-D. She leads a team of BCBA Supervisors and Behavior Interventionists serving families in and around the New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and the Florida Parishes areas. A Louisiana native, Dr. Mandal-Blasio received her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Southern Mississippi and completed her pre-doctoral internship at the Kennedy Krieger Institute of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine as part of the Neurobehavioral Outpatient Unit and Pervasive Developmental Disorders Clinic. She also completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill's Center for Development and Learning where she studied mental health issues in people with developmental disabilities across the lifespan.
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This workshop is an in-person training event. It is not virtual.
There is no cost to attend.
