Virtual Webinar

Zero to Five: Helping Families Thrive

Presented by Ben Magnussen, MPA
1.0 CE Hours General Introductory
Zero to Five: Helping Families Thrive

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Description

This workshop will review the Children’s System of Care’s (CSOC’s) current efforts to support families with young children, with a focus on the “Zero to Five: Helping Families Thrive” initiative. The “Zero to Five” initiative is a collaboration between CSOC and the Montclair State University Center for Autism and Early Childhood Mental Health. Through this initiative, CSOC will increase its capacity to provide effective mental health interventions for infants and young children that strengthen caregiver-child connections; ensure parents and caregivers have the skills and resources necessary to support the healthy social and emotional development of their children and reduce the need for higher intensity treatment interventions at later ages.

Presenters

Ben Magnussen, MPA
Ben Magnussen
Ben Magnussen MPA
Supervisor, Community-based Provider Network Oversight
Children’s System of Care, New Jersey Department of Children and Families
Ben Magnussen is the Supervisor of Community-based Provider Network Oversight for the Department of Children and Families’ Children’s System of Care. Ben provides supervisory support to the Office of Community Services to ensure that organizational outcomes are met, and families have access to high quality, family-centered and community-based services. Ben has worked for the Department of Children and Families for eighteen years, holding positions with the Division of Child Protection and Permanency, the Office of Adoption Operations, the Office of Adolescent Services and the Division of Family and Community Partnerships. Ben obtained his Bachelor’s degree in psychology from Bucknell University and holds a Master’s of Public Administration degree from Rutgers University. He lives in Yardley, Pennsylvania with his wife, son and puppy.