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Is Your Environment Making You Lonely? Evidence-Based Strategies for Designing Connected Communities

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1 CE Hour
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Presented By

  • Erin Peavy, AIA, EDAC, WELL AP, LEED BD+C, LSSYB
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In a time of hyper connection and communication, many of us report feeling lonely and detached, and there is strong evidence that this has a toxic effect on our health and happiness. Peavey will share an evidence-based framework to design for social connection, examine scalable strategies — some unexpected — that lead to social environments that promote meaningful connections. Huge opportunities await entrepreneurs who can leverage this knowledge to build a future marked by connections that boost our collective health.

Target Audience
  • Counselors
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Psychologists
Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Identify 3 or more toxic health outcomes associated with loneliness.

  • Describe 2 ways in which the built environment is a determinant of social health.

  • Describe 2 ways "third places" impact social health.

  • Identify 2 or more scalable, evidence-based strategies that lead to social environments that promote meaningful connections.

References
  • Alrasheed, D. S. (2019). The relationship between neighborhood design and social capital as measured by carpooling. Journal of Regional Science, 59(5), 962-987. https://doi.org/10.1111/jors. 12457

  • Bayne K. (2018). Environmental enrichment and mouse models: Current perspectives. ANimal Models and Experimental Medicine, 1 (2), 82-90. https://doi.org /10.1002/ame2. 12015

  • Cabrera, J.F., & Najarian, J.C. (2015). How the built environment shapes spatial bridging ties and social capital. Environment and Behavior, 47 (3), 239-267. https://doi.org/10. 1177/0013916500275

Introductory
General
Counselors

TPN.health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7267. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. TPN.health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

 

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

 

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0220.

Addiction Counselors

This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programming. Counselor Skill Group: Legal, Ethical and Professional Development.

Social Workers

TPN.health, #1766, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/31/2022 – 03/31/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 1 continuing education credit.

 

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

 

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0654.

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

 

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0097.

Psychologists

TPN.health is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

CE Policy
This course is fiscally sponsored by Exchange Events. There may be potential biases or conflicts of interest inherent to this relationship, and it must be disclosed to participants. These conflicts of interest have no bearing on the course content and have been resolved.
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Erin Peavy, AIA, EDAC, WELL AP, LEED BD+C, LSSYB

Erin is on a mission to cultivate health, well-being, and belonging through evidence-based, human-centered design. As Vice President, Health & Well-being Design Leader at HKS, she helps integrate research and practice to advance design for health and resilience across the globe. Erin has seen the power of architecture and design to help (or harm) our mental and social health, and has dedicated her career to create places that foster connection, advance health, and combat loneliness. Erin has a talent for making new insights accessible to a wide audience, with work featured in Psychology Today, TEDx, Metropolis, Curbed, Dallas Morning News, Healthline, SXSW, and her own podcast, Shared Space.

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