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| Dr. Jerry Yager DCAC's Director of Education & Training |
Dr. Yager is a Clinical Psychologist with more than 25 years of experience in the assessment and treatment of traumatized children and adolescents. He specializes in working with adolescents who exhibit self-destructive behavior and have severe mental illness such as clinical depression, bipolar mood disorder, post-traumatic distress disorder and psychosis. Before joining DCAC, Jerry was the Executive Director of the Denver Children's Home, which shares a mission with DCAC to provide high quality mental health care for low-income children whose problems would otherwise go undiagnosed and untreated. Jerry received his Doctorate in Psychology from Nova University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Colorado. He is a ChildTrauma fellow with the ChildTrauma Academy, and conducts professional training in Colorado and nationally.
In this newly created position, Jerry will lead the expansion of DCAC's training program for mental health professionals and community members, with a dual focus on child abuse prevention and the assessment and treatment for child trauma. The multi-level training program is designed to equip all those who work with children-therapists, foster parents, social service caseworkers, police, prosecutors, victim advocates, medical doctors, school personnel and family members-with the tools to meet the complex needs of children along the continuum of need from at-risk to severely traumatized. By providing high quality training, DCAC's goal is to create a seamless web of care for children in our state.
I know you will want to visit this blog weekly to see what Dr. Jerry has to share. You may contact him directly by CLICKING HERE with your questions and responses.
Welcome, Dr. Jerry. We're happy to have you aboard!
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