ENHANCE YOUR MOOD AND LEARN ABOUT PEARLS!
Tuesday, June 25th at 11am
PEARLS is the Program to Encourage Active and Rewarding Lives, an innovative and evidence-based program to help older adults recover from depression in just eight sessions. PEARLS Counselors meet individually with older adults to help them identify and solve problems—problems that can cause them to feel down or depressed. PEARLS also helps individuals to become more socially and physically active (within their level of ability), so they feel less isolated and that they are moving forward again. In this program, you will learn more about PEARLS counseling and whether it might be right for you or someone you know, and you will learn how to put some of the tools of the PEARLS program to use right away. Everyone can benefit from these problem-solving tools, even if they aren’t feeling depressed.
Sharon Dornberg-Lee, LCSW
Sharon received her Master of Arts in Social Work from the University of Chicago, Crown Family School of Social Work, Public Policy and Practice. She is currently Clinical Director of Community Services at CJE SeniorLife, where she has worked for the last 26 years. In that role, Sharon provides clinical supervision, consultation, and training for staff in a variety of community programs at CJE. She coordinates support and therapy groups across the agency, co-chairs the ethics committee, coordinates field instruction for social work students; and chairs the professional development committee. Sharon has also been an adjunct instructor at the Crown School where she taught Aging and Mental Health. She continues to teach in Crown's Professional Development Program, Clinical Practice with Older Adults and she is an executive board member of the Illinois Coalition on Mental Health and Aging.
Since 1972, CJE SeniorLife has been dedicated to helping older adults live better every day connected to the community of their choice with access to trusted care and a full range of services, rooted in Jewish values. We enhance the lives of older adults and their families regardless of religion, sex, race, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.
