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about us
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free community presentation: fictional explanations of autistic behavior
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Free community presentation is scheduled for Friday, February 14 from 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
 Lee Mason, PhD, board certified behavior analyst and an assistant professor of special education at the University of Texas at San Antonio, will be the featured speaker for the Clarity CGC monthly community event on February 14. The topic of his presentation is "Fictional Explanations of Autistic Behavior."
During this 2-hour presentation, Dr. Mason will discuss autism as a contingency-shaped disorder of verbal behavior, and how conceptualizing it this way provides a more effective paradigm for behavioral research and treatment.
Attendees of this session will learn how to:
- Define autism as a verbal behavior disorder
- Identify explanatory fictions, and
- Identify characteristics of behavior analytic interventions.
The program qualifies for 2 hours of CEU credit (LPC, LMSW, NAADAC and PhD). Space is limited, so please RSVP.
Location: Clarity Child Guidance Center (main campus), 8535 Tom Slick, San Antonio, Texas 78229.
Click here to register online.
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february 25: special one in five minds presentation: a forum on mental health care funding for texas children
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Join us on Tuesday, February 25 at 9:30 am for this FREE community event
 Please plan to join us at 9:30 am, on Tuesday, February 25, at the headquarters of the Valero Energy Corporation as we celebrate the first anniversary of the One in Five Minds advocacy campaign and host A Forum on Mental Health Care Funding for Texas Children.
Justice Luz Elena Chapa will deliver the keynote address at this special event. She will be joined by The Texas Tribune Editor in Chief and CEO, Evan Smith, as moderator of a special panel discussion - A Forum on Mental Health Care Funding for Texas Children.
Members of the panel include:
Ed Dickey - Vice President Texas Board of Directors, National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
Melissa Rowan - Health Care Policy Director, Texas Council of Community Centers
John Theiss, PhD - Chair-Elect, Mental Health America of Texas
Stacy Wilson, JD - Associate General Counsel, Texas Hospital Association
We are also expecting a number of community leaders, mental health advocates, educators and parents to join us. Attendance is free. Please RSVP here to be a part of this important conversation!
WHAT: A Forum on Mental Health Care Funding for Texas Children
WHEN: Tuesday, February 25, 9:30 - 11:00 a.m. (Registration is from 8:30 - 9:30 a.m.)
WHERE: Valero Energy Corporation, The Vista, 1 Valero Way, San Antonio, 78249
RSVP: Click here
For more information, please see our website.
One in Five Minds is an advocacy campaign, sponsored by Clarity Child Guidance Center, to raise awareness about children's mental illness, decrease stigma, and increase access to treatment.
Please click here to reserve your space. Seating is limited.
This special One in Five Minds Presentation: A Forum on Mental Health Care Funding for Texas Children is sponsored by:
 
Funding for the NOWCastSA live-stream of this event is sponsored by:
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teen authors needed: become part of a powerful book project
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Teens can share their story with others in a new book - YOU Make a Difference
Chicken Soup for the Soul meets Freedom Writers - that's one way to describe an exciting new project to help teenagers share their stories of making a difference.
One in Five Minds, the advocacy campaign sponsored by Clarity Child Guidance Center, has been invited to participate in a powerful book project featuring teens.
Teens will have a chance to become published authors, receive valuable training from a book publisher, and make a difference in the world - all at the same time!
The YOU Make a Difference: 50 Amazing Young People Share Their Stories of Inspiration and Transformation book project was created for teens to tell their stories. One in Five Minds has agreed to support this project for the opportunity it provides teens to answer three questions:
- Who has made the greatest difference in your life, and what did they do?
- In whose life have you made the greatest difference, and what did you do?
- What difference would you like to see in the world, and what are you doing to contribute to it?
Stories selected to be included in the YOU Make a Difference book will allow the teenage author to tell their story, while also protecting the identity of the families and others.
To read more about how your teen can become a published author in YOU Make a Difference, please click here.
One in Five Minds was founded to raise awareness, to end stigma and to increase access to treatment for children whether or not their families can pay for it. Will you become an advocate? Learn more here.
To participate in this One in Five Minds book project click here.
One in Five Minds is sponsored by Clarity Child Guidance Center. |
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june 12 & 13: more important dates to save - claritycon2014 is coming
| Nationally-recognized speakers, educational workshops & CEU's during our 2014 summit on children's mental health!
 Please save the dates, Thursday, June 12, and Friday morning, June 13 for claritycon2014: A Summit on Children's Mental Health.
There will be a variety of workshops and presentations on children's mental health topics, spread over one and a half days.
We're excited to announce that in addition to CEU credits for CLE, LMSW, LPC, NAADAC, PhD, RN & TCLEOSE, we also plan to offer CME's, with speakers and topics beneficial for physicians, especially pediatricians.
We have already lined up some nationally-known speakers we will be revealing in the coming weeks. Until then, please reserve Thursday, June 12 and Friday morning June 13 on your calendar for what promises to be an informative and memorable event!
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february 6: new parenting class sessions - now on thursdays
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Register to attend our English or Spanish parenting classes, on Thursday mornings or evenings
A new session of 2014 parenting classes have begun on Thursdays at Clarity CGC. Classes in English are held 9:30 - 11:00 a.m. Thursday mornings at our Outpatient Campus on Babcock, and 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. Thursday evenings at the Main Campus on Tom Slick Drive.
Classes in Spanish are held Thursday mornings 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. at the Outpatient Campus, and 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. Thursday evenings at the Main Campus.
- February 6 - Nurturing Children's Self-Esteem
- February 13 - Raising 21st Century Kids
Cost: $5.00 per session (financial assistance available)
Space is limited, and available on a first come-first seated basis
Locations:
Thursday mornings: Clarity Child Guidance Center (Outpatient Campus), 2135 Babcock Road, San Antonio, Texas 78229
Thursday evenings:
Clarity Child Guidance Center
(Main Campus) 8535 Tom Slick Drive, San Antonio, Texas 78229
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