FREEPORT — Nationally renowned speaker and author Dr. Ben Garber, Ph.D., will be the keynote speaker at the Kids First Center’s 2016 conference Oct. 20.

It will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Harraseeket Inn. Topic is Keeping Kids Out of the Middle: Evaluating, Intervening and Adjudicating the Needs of Children Caught in their Parents’ Conflicts.

This interactive, full-day presentation will provide child-centered professionals with a broad overview of child development in the context of high conflict family dynamics.

Child-centered legal and mental health professional participants in this presentation will acquire practical tools with which to more effectively and efficiently assess and intervene so as to help assure that children have the opportunity to enjoy a healthy childhood. A subsequent panel discussion including both attorneys and mental health professionals will cast these dynamics upon the stage set by the 2015 Maine Parentage Act.

For more information, call 207-761-2709; email: [email protected]; or go to: www.kidsfirstcenter.org