February 25, 2025 6:30pm

Managing Anxiety With Children and Youth

Practical Tools to Support Kids and Teens

What You’ll Learn

  • Why stress and anxiety are rising in all ages

  • Play-based strategies to ease anxiety at home

  • Social media’s impact on youth anxiety

  • When and how to seek professional help

Sydney is a North Carolina Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and has additional training in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Play Therapy. Sydney has extensive experience working with high- acuity children and adolescents ages 3- 17 and their families. She specializes in behavioral issues, family / interpersonal conflict, anxiety, depression, trauma, and grief.

Sydney Jenkins, MSSA, LCSW

JoAnn applies a systemic lens to presenting issues and enjoys working with individuals of all ages, couples, families, and extended families. She helps with issues like: anxiety, depression, communication, sexuality, spirituality, loss/grief, trauma, childhood abuse, infidelity, and separation/divorce.

JoAnn Mullinix, M.A., LMFT

Empowering Parents, Supporting Families, a ministry of St. Francis United Methodist Church, offers parents and care givers research-based education to support the healthy growth and development of children and youth. Our speaker series focuses on learning together in a non-judgmental setting to foster a more joyful parenting journey with strong family connections where children and adolescents can thrive and flourish.

The speaker series was launched in 2023 with “Parenting with Love, Respect, and Natural Consequences” and “Helping Children and Adolescents Navigate Friendships.” In October 2024, Empowering Parents is hosting ScreenStrong’s “Kids’ Brains and Screens” workshop, providing a basic overview of the science behind healthy brain development, the effects of screen use on developing brains, symptoms of screen overuse, and solutions to prevent and reverse the effects of addictive screen habits. The series continues in February 2025 with education about stress and anxiety experienced by children and youth.

 

Located at: St. Francis United Methodist Church