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Talking with Teens... About Depression and Suicide Trainers
Barb Asimakopoulos has a B.S. in Psychology and a Masters Degree in Counseling from Arizona State University. She is Nationally Certified Counselor and a Certified Adolescent Health Trainer. While Barb worked with the Arizona Prevention Resource as a Consultant and Senior Program Coordinator, she trained hundred of health educators in curriculum designed to prevent teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, and worked with 6th - 9th grade students across the state, to accomplish these goals. She has developed curricula and presented trainings on many adolescent health issues, including Demystifying Adolescence, Talking with Teens: Adult-Adolescent Communication, and Talking with Teens…About Depression and Suicide. Barb is the Director of the Adolescent Health Training Institute, teaches in Phoenix Colleges Certificate in Adolescent Studies Program, and has a counseling and consulting practice in Mesa. Barb is a past President of the Arizona Adolescent Health Coalition.
Marcy Cameron is an R.N. and a Certified School Nurse, with a B.S. in Nursing from Arizona State University. Marcy is working on an M.Ed. from Northern Arizona University and expects to graduate in May 2004. She is employed by Scottsdale Unified Schools as a School Nurse and the District Sex Education Programs Coordinator. Marcy also has worked with adolescents for over 20 years in behavioral health inpatient settings. She is a Certified Adolescent Health Trainer, and has provided trainings in the Reducing the Risk and Get Real About AIDS curricula to health educators for the past five years, as a consultant for the Arizona Prevention Resource Center. Marcy serves on the Board of the Arizona Adolescent Health Coalition.
Dr. James W. Eitner received a Doctorate of Osteopathic Medicine from the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific in Pomona, California. He received his Masters in Health and Secondary Education from Arizona State University. Additionally, he obtained Bachelor degrees in Biology, Chemistry, and Secondary Education from ASU. He has been a Certified Adolescent Health Trainer since 1992, and is a Trainer for the Adolescent Health Training Institute. Dr. Eitner is Board Certified in Family Practice and works as an independent medical consultant. He has provided care in indigent and correctional settings, as well as, public health clinics. After teaching in the Paradise Valley Unified School District, he continued to work closely with various school districts and is currently the team physician for North High School in Phoenix. He has provided numerous trainings around the state, including Demystifying Adolescence, Talking With Teens... Adult-Adolescent Communication, and Talking With Teens... About Depression and Suicide. He has also provided in-services and community lectures on adolescent nutrition, sexually transmitted diseases, HIV, and various adolescent health issues.
Juli Kelly has a B.S. in Psychology from Arizona State University and a M.S. in Child & Family Development, from the University of Georgia. She is currently employed by the Pinal County Division of Public Health in Coolidge as the Education and Outreach Administrator, where she supervises prevention education grant programs, coordinates public health events and community awareness issues, and provides trainings and parent education classes. Juli has implemented teen pregnancy prevention services and teen parenting support groups as a Program Coordinator for the Pinal County Division of Public Health. She has also worked as a therapist at Park Place Outreach and Counseling Center in Coolidge, and has taught the Friends First and W.A.I.T. Training abstinence education curricula.
Debi Neat has a M.Ed. from Northern Arizona University and currently is the Safe and Drug Free Schools Trainer for the Phoenix Union High School District. In this position, Debi provides staff development workshops to over 2500 employees who work at 10 comprehensive campuses and 3 alternative campuses and trains the Peer Mentors and Mediators for the campuses, as well as the facilitation and oversight of prevention/intervention programs and staff who run those programs on the campuses. Mrs. Neat has over 20 years experience (since 1980) in working with adolescents, including seven as a teacher and part of the therapeutic treatment program at the Nevada State correctional facility for youth and 13 years as the Prevention Programs Coordinator for Tolleson Union High School District. Mrs. Neat has been a PeopleLinks Prevention Specialist with the Arizona Prevention Resource Center since 1991 and an adolescent health trainer for the Arizona Adolescent Health Coalition, Arizona Department of Education and Arizona Department of Health. Debi has provided the Demystifying Adolescence; Talking with Teens: Adult-Adolescent Communication; Talking with Teens…About Depression and Suicide and the Reducing the Risk training workshops for hundreds of participants in both large and small group formats on a statewide basis. Debi is a Certified Adolescent Health Trainer, a Lead Trainer for the Adolescent Health Training Institute, and a past President of the Arizona Adolescent Health Coalition.
Sara A. Sandy, a Registered Nurse and owner of Sara Sandy & Associates, has provided over a thousand hours of community education and consultation for schools, businesses, organizations and the general public. In addition to working in the nursing field for 30 years, she has provided training and community education in the areas of drug, alcohol & tobacco use prevention, HIV/AIDS, Depression & Suicide prevention, and other high-risk health and social concerns. She has coordinated a statewide technical assistance system for the Arizona Department of Education to assist schools in implementing tobacco use prevention policies and programs, and provided Tobacco Prevention Curriculum Training of Trainers to the Florida, New Mexico & Arizona. Currently, she provides prevention programming to High Schools and senior centers through agency contracts. She received her Nursing degree from the University of Albuquerque and is a member if the APRC PeopleLinks technical assistance network as well as volunteering with the Red Cross Mental Health Disaster Team, previously acting as the West Side Coordinator.
Jim Eitner and Sara Sandy will provide the Talking with Teens…About Depression and Suicide Training in Phoenix on October 27th.
Barb Asimakopoulos and Marcy Cameron will provide the Talking with Teens…About Depression and Suicide: Warning Signs and Symptoms Training in Phoenix on October 31st.
Debi Neat and Juli Kelly will provide the Talking with Teens…About Depression and Suicide Training on November 3rd, and the Talking with Teens…About Depression and Suicide: Warning Signs and Symptoms Training on November 4th, in Tucson.
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