2025 JV Caprez Social Work Field Day
Fall 2025 Symposium
Title: “Understanding the Brain, the Neuroscience of the Brain”.
Date: October 16th, 2025 from 1:00PM-4:00PM CST
Location: Black and Gold Room
Understanding the Brain / Trauma Informed Care: This training is 3 hours long.
- Based off the Dr. Bruce Perry Neurosequential Brain Development. Participants will learn how the brain develops and the importance of early childhood. The participants will also understand timelines when parts of the brain develop. Participants will understand ACEs and how trauma affects the develop brain. The participants will also go over different mental health disorders and how to help with them. Participants will learn techniques on how to re-wire the brain. This training is certified by KDH&E
Objective 1: Participants will learn how generations affect the brain and how genetics play a part of the brain development. How early development from conception to 24 years of age plays a part in brain development. How you build a healthy brain from the beginning.
Objective 2: Participants will learn how trauma affects the developing brain and the effects of Adverse Childhood Experience cause the brain to under develop. Participants will see what parts of the brain get underdeveloped and how they can develop every part of the brain. We will also cover disorders seen in children and how you can help with these disorders.
Objective 3: Participants will learn how to rewire the brain. Participants will also learn why the new generation of children have a different wired brain and what caused it, and how do we fix it. Classroom techniques on how you can start rewiring the brain and how you can help traumatic children become more efficient with their brains.
Social Work Field Work Information
This event is free, open to the public, and offered face to face as well as zoom. If you wish to attend and do not need CEUs, email socialwork@fhsu.edu your name, email address and if you are attending in person or via zoom, so we can register you.
If participants are requesting CEU for the event, the cost is $25. Registration is non-refundable. If participants register as a zoom attendee, the zoom link will be emailed one day prior to the event. Attendees will receive CEU certificates after the event.
Parking: please park in lot A2 or lot A3 by the Memorial Union and behind the President’s House/Stroup Hall.
Registration will open soon!
Complete your REGISTRATION if you are receiving CEUs.
Any questions about Field Day? Email socialwork@fhsu.edu
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Presenter Information
Richard Falcon
Program Manager ~ Compass Behavioral Health
Chair of the board of directors for Life for Life Foundation /Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Program.
Richard has been in social services for over 20 years. He started his career working for a Psychiatric Therapeutic Residential Facility. He supervised cottages for 10 years that housed violent offenders, sexual offenders and younger kids that endured major trauma. He was the trainer for the PRTF which he was certified in Trauma Informed Care, Therapeutic Crisis Intervention, and compliance. In 2014 he started working for Compass Behavioral Health as the program manager whose staff worked with kids ages 3 to 22 with mental health or behavioral health disorders. He continues to train in Trauma Informed Care and Therapeutic Crisis intervention. In 2014 Richard became a Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Trainer, in 2017 he was elected chair to the board of Yellow Ribbon International. Yellow Ribbon is the largest suicide prevention program in the world. The are in all 50 states and 48 countries around the world. Richard works with an advisor board of doctors, therapist, and professionals in creating the best suicide prevention program in the world. Richard is also certified in Clinical Applications of Neuroscience by the Mental Health Academy. The training “Understanding the Brain” was certified by KDH&E.