NHASP Fall Conference 2024

Connection and Belonging: 

Understanding and Addressing Invisible Wounds of Trauma

Monday, OCTOBER 28th, 2024 

8:00am - 3:30pm

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Workshop Description

This workshop will focus on introducing participants to the various wounds related to historical trauma.  In this workshop, we ask educators (school psychologists, teachers, administrators, etc.) to contextualize the experiences of people who have been marginalized within a historical-socio-political framework and to work towards understanding the signs of these wounds.

6.0 CE credits are available for this event!

NHASP is a NASP-approved provider of CPD hours and Certificates of Attendance will be accepted toward NCSP. A total of 4.0 CE credits will be awarded for this event.

NH Licensed Psychologists should note that NASP is an approved CE provider and these credits count towards licensure renewal requirements. 

Target Audience

This workshop is appropriate for School Psychologists, Psychologists, School Social Workers, School Counselors, Special Education Teachers and Administrators, Regular Education Teachers, and Speech Pathologists. The workshop is available to current NHASP members at a special reduced rate as a membership benefit. Additionally, members of other Northeast Regional state associations can attend at the NH member rate as part of our regional collaboration. 

Keynote Presenter 

Dr. Silas Otniel Rodrigues Pinto (Mestre Tigri) is currently the Deputy Chief of People & Culture - Equity, Inclusion and Talent for the City of Providence – and is serving as the inaugural director of the Department for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging, for which he remains the interim director while supporting directorship of the department of Talent Acquisition, Learning and Development.  Prior to working for the City of Providence, he worked as a full-time faculty at Tufts University’s Department of Education, where he directed the School Psychology Graduate Program and Co-Directed the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice Leadership Program for 12 years.  He continues in the teaching capacity as Part-time Professor of the Practice for Tufts University and Lab Faculty at College Unbound.

Dr. Pinto teaches and works in the areas of social justice, diversity & inclusion, education law, immigrant populations & bridging communication, biological bases of learning & behavior, methods of research, school-based consultation, and social-emotional learning initiatives.

Beyond his government and academic contributions, Dr. Pinto is often known as "Mestre Tigri," the founder of the only Capoeira Martial Arts group in Rhode Island, and director at New Wave Martial Arts & Fitness, where he has focused on wellness, addressing the impacts of intergenerational trauma, colonization and language education for over 25 years.

Group Session Presenters