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Hi all. I know things are really scary right now with the outbreak, and a lot of us are practicing social distancing either through choice or government orders. This is very important, and we need to all be doing our part to flatten the curve and try to keep the

Not that community. (Image from NBC's Community)I've been meaning to set up D&D social skills groups within the community mental health agency I work at for some time. The agency focuses on high need children and their families within the Pierce County region, and uses a wraparound framework

One question I've gotten a lot is “How do I do what you're doing?” and it's making me realize I should have written a post about this question a long time ago, as I feel that the core of the question is 'How can I use D&D/RPGs for

I posted a request to Twitter asking for Nonviolent D&D encounters suitable for a therapeutic group, and the tweet sort of blew up a bit with people sending in ideas. So, I decided that there was definitely enough demand to come up with a list to be made public

Happy New Years! It's been a while since I've posted, but a lot of that has been because I've been busy with my community mental health job. However, this has given me a lot of time to look at the complex needs of kids in the community mental healthcare system,

Creating character driven plot elements is always a challenge with any game, but when working with a social skills group, it's both important for building engagement but also encouraging interaction at the table. Last night marked my last session for my social skills group, and while it was one of

I haven't posted much lately, because frankly, this quarter has been one of the most difficult quarters I've run. I had three consecutive sessions go poorly, where it felt like the group was just out of control, kids were getting escalated, and I had to implement a lot of behavioral