Derek Saker
Director of Communications
OHEL Children’s Home and Family Services
dsaker@ohelfamily.org
718-686-3333 direct | 347 920 0199 mobile | 718 851 2772 fax
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Joint OHEL and YARC Community Training for Parents of Children with ADHD a Success
A group of over 80 parents joined together on Sunday, June 6th at the Yeshiva of Spring Valley for the First Annual Community Training for Parents of Children with ADHD. The event, which was sponsored by OHEL and the Yeshiva Association of Rockland County featured Rabbi Doniel Frank, M.Ed., LMFT, coordinator of OHEL’s operations in Rockland and Northern New Jersey and Dr. Michael Steinhardt.

Rabbi Frank spoke on understanding the challenges of ADHD children, removing the stigma of ADHD and seeing its upside, and practical strategies for managing the ADHD and working with schools. Dr. Steinhardt, a neuropsychologist at Hackensack University Medical Center, focused his presentation on evaluating for ADHD in children.

OHEL’s Monsey school based services has been serving the community since 2001, offering free school based counseling to students and professional trainings to educators and parents. During its first few years of service, the staff at OHEL of Rockland County noticed that much of the counseling issues that were being referred to them were related to ADHD. In response, OHEL has been on a mission to educate and empower the community of educators and parents regarding the struggles of children with ADHD, as well as to continue working individually with students. Since 2007, OHEL has focused its training on administrators and teachers and have already trained close to 300 educators in the Monsey community. At Sunday’s event, the second dimension of the vision – the training of parents – has begun. There has already been discussion, as a result of this latest training, for OHEL to begin support groups for parents of children with ADHD. 

For any further information on the ADHD initiative or to discuss any of our other school based services, call OHEL Monsey at 845-425.7965.

OHEL Children's Home and Family Services is a pioneering social services agency that is markeing its 40th milestone this year. From the early to senior years, OHEL delivers a breadth of community services through OHEL Bais Ezra, OHEL Lifetime Care, OHEL Foster Care, OHEL Mental Health Services , OHEL Camp Kaylie and the OHEL Institute for Training. OHEL provides innovative and cutting-edge programs and services for individuals and families at risk, and individuals with developmental or psychiatric disabilities, in both residential and out-patient settings. Touching the lives of thousands of individuals at every stage, and every day, OHEL’s professional services are available throughout New York, New Jersey and South Florida.