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Jungle Tracks: A Therapeutic Storytelling Program for Children and Adolescents
Format Workshop
Presenters Pearl Fernandes
Description Workshop outline
This one-day workshop is designed to equip participants with appropriate knowledge and skills to run Jungle Tracks within an integrated therapeutic model. Jungle Tracks is a program that includes five short stories that mirror real life struggles related to the lives of children, adolescents and parents with a background of refugee trauma. The stories promote hope and empowerment and assist the reader/listener to process and reconcile their past experiences and ongoing difficulties in transition.

Workshop program:
- The Refugee Experience and its Impact on Children and Adolescents
- Therapeutic Storytelling
- The Therapeutic Strategy in Jungle Tracks
- The Road Ahead - Outcomes and Integrating Therapeutic Approaches
Location NSW Metro, Australia
Venue STARTTS - Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors
152-168 The Horsley Dr, Carramar

Please contact the event organiser to confirm if this venue is wheelchair accessible
Start/End Date 12 Oct 2012
Time 9.30am-4.30pm
Cost $199/$149 for students (Includes a Jungle Tracks kit)
Notes Please refer to STARTTS' website (www.startts.org.au) for the flyer and to register.
Organiser STARTTS
Contact Name Melanie Leemon
Telephone 02 9794-1900
Email melanie.leemon@sswahs.nsw.gov.au
Fax 02 9794-1910
Website www.startts.org.au
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