Conversations with KidsPeace

Conversations with KidsPeace


Latest Episodes

Virtual Reality Therapy Demonstration | Episode #62
June 25, 2024

How does a mental health provider incorporate technological innovations to serve its clients, but in a responsible and sustainable way? At KidsPeace, a pilot project involving the use of Virtual Reality (VR) in the therapeutic setting may present an answ

Hope Center one-year anniversary of BHUC | Episode #61
June 11, 2024

June marks the one-year anniversary of the opening of the Hope Center for Youth and Family Crisiss behavioral health urgent care service in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina. On the latest Conversations with KidsPeace podcast, host Bob Martin talks with Ex

Roundtable discussion for Foster Care Month | Episode #60
May 30, 2024

May is National Foster Care Month, and on the latest Conversations with KidsPeace podcast host Bob Martin talks with three KidsPeace associates in the foster care field - about the state of fostering post-pandemic, how mentoring is becoming an important a

Reflections on Education | Episode #59
May 07, 2024

On the latest Conversations with KidsPeace podcast, KidsPeace teachers from Georgia, Pennsylvania and Maine reflect on the role education plays in KidsPeaces treatment programming.

LVHN Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow | Dr. Joseph Venditto | Episode #58
April 25, 2024

In addition to providing kids in crisis therapeutic help, KidsPeace also offers opportunities for real-world training to medical professionals beginning their careers in mental healthcare. In 2024 KidsPeace serves as a clinical rotation site for physicia

Autism Awareness Month | Episode #57
April 09, 2024

April is Autism Awareness Month, and on the latest Conversations podcast Rob Harvey, Director of Intensive Behavioral Health Services, offers his perspectives on the state of autism programming in the post-pandemic period, how the continuum of autism serv

Toxic Friendships with Madelyn Almonte | Episode #56
March 06, 2024

What is a toxic friendship? How can I tell if a friendship is toxic and if it is, what can I do about it? These are questions addressed in a new learning section of KidsPeaces therapeutic support service TeenCentral.com. TeenCentrals Madelyn A

Lobbying for more funding to support child welfare professionals | Episode #55
February 05, 2024

As program manager for KidsPeace Foster Care in Kingston, NY, Jennifer Udvardi-Morris works to connect kids in need with foster families and other services. But shes also taken on a different task lobbying legislators in her state to address the needs

KidsPeace President and CEO Mike Slack discussing highlights of 2023 | Episode #54
January 18, 2024

The sixth season of the Conversations with KidsPeace podcast kicks off with KidsPeace President and CEO Mike Slack discussing highlights of 2023 and what challenges he expects the organization and the mental healthcare field will face in the new year.

Autism Focused Foster Care | Episode #53
June 12, 2023

According to a recent study, children with autism are more than twice as likely to enter foster care than those without that diagnosis. In one county in Pennsylvania, KidsPeace is launching an effort to meld its expertise in foster care with its understa

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