Foster Care Training

Shame often accompanies trauma and can delay one’s ability to disclose their abuse which can delay one’s healing journey as well as create barriers to utilizing one’s support system. It is crucial for social service providers to understand the connection between shame and trauma. In this training, we will talk about how shame presents in services and what we can do to combat shame. One of the strategies that will be highlighted is self-compassion. Register Here

This Anger Management and Conflict Resolution Skills for System-Involved Youth training equips probation officers, caregivers and all other support/service providers of system-involved youth with trauma-informed strategies to recognize, de-escalate, and respond effectively to anger and conflict behaviors. Participants will explore the underlying causes of anger, including trauma, shame, and unmet needs, while learning how to model emotional regulation and teach constructive coping skills. Through interactive discussions and role-play, participants will practice communication techniques that foster trust, accountability, and resilience. The training emphasizes a healing-centered and relational approach, helping adults guide youth toward positive decision-making and emotional growth.

Foster youth are at high risk of unsafe/unhealthy behaviors, so it is necessary for those who support them to learn how to most effectively do so. Harm reduction is being identified as a best practice for reducing harm and increasing safety. This training will provide an overview of harm reduction and how apply it with at-risk system-involved youth. The trainer will focus on applying harm reduction principles in alignment with the Stages of Change model with system-involved youth. The trainer will also touch on risk identification and safety planning.

While mindfulness has grown in popularity to support individuals experiencing trauma, anxiety, depression, etc., it’s starting to be recognized as a helpful tool in addressing substance use with system-involved youth and transitional age youth. Join us as we’ll talk about how to apply mindfulness strategies with individuals in substance use recovery. Please register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/applying-mindfulness-strategies-for-youth-who-use-substance-tickets-1975636818908?aff=oddtdtcreator

Examine the reasons why you chose to work in this field. They can be a “double-edged sword”- by being both the very things that make us excellent at our work and that can also lead to compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma. Explore how our own “stuff” impacts our work with system-involved youth (SIY) and their families and, if you are a supervisor, how to support those you supervise with all of this. Discuss self-disclosure with system-involved youth and families, explore ourselves and countertransference, identify how we know when we are over-involved with those we support, and review ways to address this.

This course will provide an overview and introduction (or refresher) on the impact of domestic violence (DV) and intimate partner violence (IPV) on families and children for both new and experienced clinicians.

This course will provide an overview and introduction (or refresher) on the impact of domestic violence (DV) and intimate partner violence (IPV) on families and children for both new and experienced clinicians.

During this introductory training, facilitated fully in Spanish, designed for caregivers, professionals, social workers, educators and others who work with system-involved youth and families who have experienced trauma. The training will cover the principles of trauma-informed care, the effects of trauma on the brain and body, common responses to trauma, screening and assessment for trauma, trauma-informed communication and language, implementing trauma-informed care in organizations and practices and self-care for providers. The material will be delivered by PowerPoint presentation, short video clips, group discussion, breakout (small group) discussions and participant workbook (handout). Register Here

If you are a supervisor and are supervising unlicensed support providers who are working with system-involved youth and their families, this is an important training for you. We will focus on issues of culture in supervision and also on ethical boundaries in supervision and how this parallels boundaries that support providers need to establish and maintain their relationships with system-involved youth and their families.  We will also review the relevance of countertransference in the supervisory relationship and how to help supervisees identify this in order to stay focused on, and most effectively address, the needs of system-involved youth and their families.

This training will be provided in two parts: (Part 1) Facilitation Fundamentals and (Part 2) Advanced Facilitation. Participants can attend one or both Parts and will deepen their understanding of the importance of required elements in a Child and Family Team meeting, and be able to practice facilitation strategies and address common challenges that can arise in these meetings when working to improve outcomes for foster youth and other system-involved youth.

This training will be provided in two parts: (Part 1) Facilitation Fundamentals and (Part 2) Advanced Facilitation. Participants can attend one or both Parts and will deepen their understanding of the importance of required elements in a Child and Family Team meeting, and be able to practice facilitation strategies and address common challenges that can arise in these meetings when working to improve outcomes for foster youth and other system-involved youth.

As social services case planning, mental health care, and general support has become more commonly provided via telehealth, it is important that those who support system-involved youth are aware of the legal and ethical issues related to services and support provided via telehealth. In this class participants will learn: 1) California Telehealth legal codes and Telehealth professional codes of ethics including: informed consent, privacy, working with people out of state, preparing for crisis, and handling technology failure; 2) Research on Telemental Health and 3) best practices when providing online support for system-involved youth.

The purpose of this training is to create a renewed and heightened awareness of boundary issues in work with foster youth. Having boundaries is not just a matter of being professional. Appropriate boundaries are a key ingredient in providing the children in our care with the highest quality of care, which often times requires us to build trusting and healing relationships with them.

This training will provide examples of extraordinary frameworks that could improve safety, well-being, and permanency outcomes for children in out-of-home care and how they can be used to find families of children who have no families and help permanently connect children with their kin.

In this training attendees will explore crisis interventions, case management approaches and resources using team based care. This training will feature tools and frameworks to provide youth centered trauma-informed care. This training will also use tools to navigate barriers and limitations to services to improve engagement.

Shame often accompanies trauma and can delay one’s ability to disclose their abuse which can delay one’s healing journey as well as create barriers to utilizing one’s support system. It is crucial for social service providers to understand the connection between shame and trauma. In this training, we will talk about how shame presents in services and what we can do to combat shame. One of the strategies that will be highlighted is self-compassion. Register Here

This Anger Management and Conflict Resolution Skills for System-Involved Youth training equips probation officers, caregivers and all other support/service providers of system-involved youth with trauma-informed strategies to recognize, de-escalate, and respond effectively to anger and conflict behaviors. Participants will explore the underlying causes of anger, including trauma, shame, and unmet needs, while learning how to model emotional regulation and teach constructive coping skills. Through interactive discussions and role-play, participants will practice communication techniques that foster trust, accountability, and resilience. The training emphasizes a healing-centered and relational approach, helping adults guide youth toward positive decision-making and emotional growth.

Foster youth are at high risk of unsafe/unhealthy behaviors, so it is necessary for those who support them to learn how to most effectively do so. Harm reduction is being identified as a best practice for reducing harm and increasing safety. This training will provide an overview of harm reduction and how apply it with at-risk system-involved youth. The trainer will focus on applying harm reduction principles in alignment with the Stages of Change model with system-involved youth. The trainer will also touch on risk identification and safety planning.

While mindfulness has grown in popularity to support individuals experiencing trauma, anxiety, depression, etc., it’s starting to be recognized as a helpful tool in addressing substance use with system-involved youth and transitional age youth. Join us as we’ll talk about how to apply mindfulness strategies with individuals in substance use recovery. Please register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/applying-mindfulness-strategies-for-youth-who-use-substance-tickets-1975636818908?aff=oddtdtcreator

Examine the reasons why you chose to work in this field. They can be a “double-edged sword”- by being both the very things that make us excellent at our work and that can also lead to compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma. Explore how our own “stuff” impacts our work with system-involved youth (SIY) and their families and, if you are a supervisor, how to support those you supervise with all of this. Discuss self-disclosure with system-involved youth and families, explore ourselves and countertransference, identify how we know when we are over-involved with those we support, and review ways to address this.

This course will provide an overview and introduction (or refresher) on the impact of domestic violence (DV) and intimate partner violence (IPV) on families and children for both new and experienced clinicians.

This course will provide an overview and introduction (or refresher) on the impact of domestic violence (DV) and intimate partner violence (IPV) on families and children for both new and experienced clinicians.

During this introductory training, facilitated fully in Spanish, designed for caregivers, professionals, social workers, educators and others who work with system-involved youth and families who have experienced trauma. The training will cover the principles of trauma-informed care, the effects of trauma on the brain and body, common responses to trauma, screening and assessment for trauma, trauma-informed communication and language, implementing trauma-informed care in organizations and practices and self-care for providers. The material will be delivered by PowerPoint presentation, short video clips, group discussion, breakout (small group) discussions and participant workbook (handout). Register Here

If you are a supervisor and are supervising unlicensed support providers who are working with system-involved youth and their families, this is an important training for you. We will focus on issues of culture in supervision and also on ethical boundaries in supervision and how this parallels boundaries that support providers need to establish and maintain their relationships with system-involved youth and their families.  We will also review the relevance of countertransference in the supervisory relationship and how to help supervisees identify this in order to stay focused on, and most effectively address, the needs of system-involved youth and their families.

This training will be provided in two parts: (Part 1) Facilitation Fundamentals and (Part 2) Advanced Facilitation. Participants can attend one or both Parts and will deepen their understanding of the importance of required elements in a Child and Family Team meeting, and be able to practice facilitation strategies and address common challenges that can arise in these meetings when working to improve outcomes for foster youth and other system-involved youth.

This training will be provided in two parts: (Part 1) Facilitation Fundamentals and (Part 2) Advanced Facilitation. Participants can attend one or both Parts and will deepen their understanding of the importance of required elements in a Child and Family Team meeting, and be able to practice facilitation strategies and address common challenges that can arise in these meetings when working to improve outcomes for foster youth and other system-involved youth.

As social services case planning, mental health care, and general support has become more commonly provided via telehealth, it is important that those who support system-involved youth are aware of the legal and ethical issues related to services and support provided via telehealth. In this class participants will learn: 1) California Telehealth legal codes and Telehealth professional codes of ethics including: informed consent, privacy, working with people out of state, preparing for crisis, and handling technology failure; 2) Research on Telemental Health and 3) best practices when providing online support for system-involved youth.

The purpose of this training is to create a renewed and heightened awareness of boundary issues in work with foster youth. Having boundaries is not just a matter of being professional. Appropriate boundaries are a key ingredient in providing the children in our care with the highest quality of care, which often times requires us to build trusting and healing relationships with them.

This training will provide examples of extraordinary frameworks that could improve safety, well-being, and permanency outcomes for children in out-of-home care and how they can be used to find families of children who have no families and help permanently connect children with their kin.

In this training attendees will explore crisis interventions, case management approaches and resources using team based care. This training will feature tools and frameworks to provide youth centered trauma-informed care. This training will also use tools to navigate barriers and limitations to services to improve engagement.

Shame often accompanies trauma and can delay one’s ability to disclose their abuse which can delay one’s healing journey as well as create barriers to utilizing one’s support system. It is crucial for social service providers to understand the connection between shame and trauma. In this training, we will talk about how shame presents in services and what we can do to combat shame. One of the strategies that will be highlighted is self-compassion. Register Here

This Anger Management and Conflict Resolution Skills for System-Involved Youth training equips probation officers, caregivers and all other support/service providers of system-involved youth with trauma-informed strategies to recognize, de-escalate, and respond effectively to anger and conflict behaviors. Participants will explore the underlying causes of anger, including trauma, shame, and unmet needs, while learning how to model emotional regulation and teach constructive coping skills. Through interactive discussions and role-play, participants will practice communication techniques that foster trust, accountability, and resilience. The training emphasizes a healing-centered and relational approach, helping adults guide youth toward positive decision-making and emotional growth.

Foster youth are at high risk of unsafe/unhealthy behaviors, so it is necessary for those who support them to learn how to most effectively do so. Harm reduction is being identified as a best practice for reducing harm and increasing safety. This training will provide an overview of harm reduction and how apply it with at-risk system-involved youth. The trainer will focus on applying harm reduction principles in alignment with the Stages of Change model with system-involved youth. The trainer will also touch on risk identification and safety planning.

While mindfulness has grown in popularity to support individuals experiencing trauma, anxiety, depression, etc., it’s starting to be recognized as a helpful tool in addressing substance use with system-involved youth and transitional age youth. Join us as we’ll talk about how to apply mindfulness strategies with individuals in substance use recovery. Please register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/applying-mindfulness-strategies-for-youth-who-use-substance-tickets-1975636818908?aff=oddtdtcreator

Examine the reasons why you chose to work in this field. They can be a “double-edged sword”- by being both the very things that make us excellent at our work and that can also lead to compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma. Explore how our own “stuff” impacts our work with system-involved youth (SIY) and their families and, if you are a supervisor, how to support those you supervise with all of this. Discuss self-disclosure with system-involved youth and families, explore ourselves and countertransference, identify how we know when we are over-involved with those we support, and review ways to address this.

This course will provide an overview and introduction (or refresher) on the impact of domestic violence (DV) and intimate partner violence (IPV) on families and children for both new and experienced clinicians.

This course will provide an overview and introduction (or refresher) on the impact of domestic violence (DV) and intimate partner violence (IPV) on families and children for both new and experienced clinicians.

During this introductory training, facilitated fully in Spanish, designed for caregivers, professionals, social workers, educators and others who work with system-involved youth and families who have experienced trauma. The training will cover the principles of trauma-informed care, the effects of trauma on the brain and body, common responses to trauma, screening and assessment for trauma, trauma-informed communication and language, implementing trauma-informed care in organizations and practices and self-care for providers. The material will be delivered by PowerPoint presentation, short video clips, group discussion, breakout (small group) discussions and participant workbook (handout). Register Here

If you are a supervisor and are supervising unlicensed support providers who are working with system-involved youth and their families, this is an important training for you. We will focus on issues of culture in supervision and also on ethical boundaries in supervision and how this parallels boundaries that support providers need to establish and maintain their relationships with system-involved youth and their families.  We will also review the relevance of countertransference in the supervisory relationship and how to help supervisees identify this in order to stay focused on, and most effectively address, the needs of system-involved youth and their families.

This training will be provided in two parts: (Part 1) Facilitation Fundamentals and (Part 2) Advanced Facilitation. Participants can attend one or both Parts and will deepen their understanding of the importance of required elements in a Child and Family Team meeting, and be able to practice facilitation strategies and address common challenges that can arise in these meetings when working to improve outcomes for foster youth and other system-involved youth.

This training will be provided in two parts: (Part 1) Facilitation Fundamentals and (Part 2) Advanced Facilitation. Participants can attend one or both Parts and will deepen their understanding of the importance of required elements in a Child and Family Team meeting, and be able to practice facilitation strategies and address common challenges that can arise in these meetings when working to improve outcomes for foster youth and other system-involved youth.

As social services case planning, mental health care, and general support has become more commonly provided via telehealth, it is important that those who support system-involved youth are aware of the legal and ethical issues related to services and support provided via telehealth. In this class participants will learn: 1) California Telehealth legal codes and Telehealth professional codes of ethics including: informed consent, privacy, working with people out of state, preparing for crisis, and handling technology failure; 2) Research on Telemental Health and 3) best practices when providing online support for system-involved youth.

The purpose of this training is to create a renewed and heightened awareness of boundary issues in work with foster youth. Having boundaries is not just a matter of being professional. Appropriate boundaries are a key ingredient in providing the children in our care with the highest quality of care, which often times requires us to build trusting and healing relationships with them.

This training will provide examples of extraordinary frameworks that could improve safety, well-being, and permanency outcomes for children in out-of-home care and how they can be used to find families of children who have no families and help permanently connect children with their kin.

In this training attendees will explore crisis interventions, case management approaches and resources using team based care. This training will feature tools and frameworks to provide youth centered trauma-informed care. This training will also use tools to navigate barriers and limitations to services to improve engagement.

Shame often accompanies trauma and can delay one’s ability to disclose their abuse which can delay one’s healing journey as well as create barriers to utilizing one’s support system. It is crucial for social service providers to understand the connection between shame and trauma. In this training, we will talk about how shame presents in services and what we can do to combat shame. One of the strategies that will be highlighted is self-compassion. Register Here

This Anger Management and Conflict Resolution Skills for System-Involved Youth training equips probation officers, caregivers and all other support/service providers of system-involved youth with trauma-informed strategies to recognize, de-escalate, and respond effectively to anger and conflict behaviors. Participants will explore the underlying causes of anger, including trauma, shame, and unmet needs, while learning how to model emotional regulation and teach constructive coping skills. Through interactive discussions and role-play, participants will practice communication techniques that foster trust, accountability, and resilience. The training emphasizes a healing-centered and relational approach, helping adults guide youth toward positive decision-making and emotional growth.

Foster youth are at high risk of unsafe/unhealthy behaviors, so it is necessary for those who support them to learn how to most effectively do so. Harm reduction is being identified as a best practice for reducing harm and increasing safety. This training will provide an overview of harm reduction and how apply it with at-risk system-involved youth. The trainer will focus on applying harm reduction principles in alignment with the Stages of Change model with system-involved youth. The trainer will also touch on risk identification and safety planning.

While mindfulness has grown in popularity to support individuals experiencing trauma, anxiety, depression, etc., it’s starting to be recognized as a helpful tool in addressing substance use with system-involved youth and transitional age youth. Join us as we’ll talk about how to apply mindfulness strategies with individuals in substance use recovery. Please register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/applying-mindfulness-strategies-for-youth-who-use-substance-tickets-1975636818908?aff=oddtdtcreator

Examine the reasons why you chose to work in this field. They can be a “double-edged sword”- by being both the very things that make us excellent at our work and that can also lead to compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma. Explore how our own “stuff” impacts our work with system-involved youth (SIY) and their families and, if you are a supervisor, how to support those you supervise with all of this. Discuss self-disclosure with system-involved youth and families, explore ourselves and countertransference, identify how we know when we are over-involved with those we support, and review ways to address this.

This course will provide an overview and introduction (or refresher) on the impact of domestic violence (DV) and intimate partner violence (IPV) on families and children for both new and experienced clinicians.

This course will provide an overview and introduction (or refresher) on the impact of domestic violence (DV) and intimate partner violence (IPV) on families and children for both new and experienced clinicians.

During this introductory training, facilitated fully in Spanish, designed for caregivers, professionals, social workers, educators and others who work with system-involved youth and families who have experienced trauma. The training will cover the principles of trauma-informed care, the effects of trauma on the brain and body, common responses to trauma, screening and assessment for trauma, trauma-informed communication and language, implementing trauma-informed care in organizations and practices and self-care for providers. The material will be delivered by PowerPoint presentation, short video clips, group discussion, breakout (small group) discussions and participant workbook (handout). Register Here

If you are a supervisor and are supervising unlicensed support providers who are working with system-involved youth and their families, this is an important training for you. We will focus on issues of culture in supervision and also on ethical boundaries in supervision and how this parallels boundaries that support providers need to establish and maintain their relationships with system-involved youth and their families.  We will also review the relevance of countertransference in the supervisory relationship and how to help supervisees identify this in order to stay focused on, and most effectively address, the needs of system-involved youth and their families.

This training will be provided in two parts: (Part 1) Facilitation Fundamentals and (Part 2) Advanced Facilitation. Participants can attend one or both Parts and will deepen their understanding of the importance of required elements in a Child and Family Team meeting, and be able to practice facilitation strategies and address common challenges that can arise in these meetings when working to improve outcomes for foster youth and other system-involved youth.

This training will be provided in two parts: (Part 1) Facilitation Fundamentals and (Part 2) Advanced Facilitation. Participants can attend one or both Parts and will deepen their understanding of the importance of required elements in a Child and Family Team meeting, and be able to practice facilitation strategies and address common challenges that can arise in these meetings when working to improve outcomes for foster youth and other system-involved youth.

As social services case planning, mental health care, and general support has become more commonly provided via telehealth, it is important that those who support system-involved youth are aware of the legal and ethical issues related to services and support provided via telehealth. In this class participants will learn: 1) California Telehealth legal codes and Telehealth professional codes of ethics including: informed consent, privacy, working with people out of state, preparing for crisis, and handling technology failure; 2) Research on Telemental Health and 3) best practices when providing online support for system-involved youth.

The purpose of this training is to create a renewed and heightened awareness of boundary issues in work with foster youth. Having boundaries is not just a matter of being professional. Appropriate boundaries are a key ingredient in providing the children in our care with the highest quality of care, which often times requires us to build trusting and healing relationships with them.

This training will provide examples of extraordinary frameworks that could improve safety, well-being, and permanency outcomes for children in out-of-home care and how they can be used to find families of children who have no families and help permanently connect children with their kin.

In this training attendees will explore crisis interventions, case management approaches and resources using team based care. This training will feature tools and frameworks to provide youth centered trauma-informed care. This training will also use tools to navigate barriers and limitations to services to improve engagement.

Shame often accompanies trauma and can delay one’s ability to disclose their abuse which can delay one’s healing journey as well as create barriers to utilizing one’s support system. It is crucial for social service providers to understand the connection between shame and trauma. In this training, we will talk about how shame presents in services and what we can do to combat shame. One of the strategies that will be highlighted is self-compassion. Register Here

This Anger Management and Conflict Resolution Skills for System-Involved Youth training equips probation officers, caregivers and all other support/service providers of system-involved youth with trauma-informed strategies to recognize, de-escalate, and respond effectively to anger and conflict behaviors. Participants will explore the underlying causes of anger, including trauma, shame, and unmet needs, while learning how to model emotional regulation and teach constructive coping skills. Through interactive discussions and role-play, participants will practice communication techniques that foster trust, accountability, and resilience. The training emphasizes a healing-centered and relational approach, helping adults guide youth toward positive decision-making and emotional growth.

Foster youth are at high risk of unsafe/unhealthy behaviors, so it is necessary for those who support them to learn how to most effectively do so. Harm reduction is being identified as a best practice for reducing harm and increasing safety. This training will provide an overview of harm reduction and how apply it with at-risk system-involved youth. The trainer will focus on applying harm reduction principles in alignment with the Stages of Change model with system-involved youth. The trainer will also touch on risk identification and safety planning.

While mindfulness has grown in popularity to support individuals experiencing trauma, anxiety, depression, etc., it’s starting to be recognized as a helpful tool in addressing substance use with system-involved youth and transitional age youth. Join us as we’ll talk about how to apply mindfulness strategies with individuals in substance use recovery. Please register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/applying-mindfulness-strategies-for-youth-who-use-substance-tickets-1975636818908?aff=oddtdtcreator

Examine the reasons why you chose to work in this field. They can be a “double-edged sword”- by being both the very things that make us excellent at our work and that can also lead to compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma. Explore how our own “stuff” impacts our work with system-involved youth (SIY) and their families and, if you are a supervisor, how to support those you supervise with all of this. Discuss self-disclosure with system-involved youth and families, explore ourselves and countertransference, identify how we know when we are over-involved with those we support, and review ways to address this.

This course will provide an overview and introduction (or refresher) on the impact of domestic violence (DV) and intimate partner violence (IPV) on families and children for both new and experienced clinicians.

This course will provide an overview and introduction (or refresher) on the impact of domestic violence (DV) and intimate partner violence (IPV) on families and children for both new and experienced clinicians.

During this introductory training, facilitated fully in Spanish, designed for caregivers, professionals, social workers, educators and others who work with system-involved youth and families who have experienced trauma. The training will cover the principles of trauma-informed care, the effects of trauma on the brain and body, common responses to trauma, screening and assessment for trauma, trauma-informed communication and language, implementing trauma-informed care in organizations and practices and self-care for providers. The material will be delivered by PowerPoint presentation, short video clips, group discussion, breakout (small group) discussions and participant workbook (handout). Register Here

If you are a supervisor and are supervising unlicensed support providers who are working with system-involved youth and their families, this is an important training for you. We will focus on issues of culture in supervision and also on ethical boundaries in supervision and how this parallels boundaries that support providers need to establish and maintain their relationships with system-involved youth and their families.  We will also review the relevance of countertransference in the supervisory relationship and how to help supervisees identify this in order to stay focused on, and most effectively address, the needs of system-involved youth and their families.

This training will be provided in two parts: (Part 1) Facilitation Fundamentals and (Part 2) Advanced Facilitation. Participants can attend one or both Parts and will deepen their understanding of the importance of required elements in a Child and Family Team meeting, and be able to practice facilitation strategies and address common challenges that can arise in these meetings when working to improve outcomes for foster youth and other system-involved youth.

This training will be provided in two parts: (Part 1) Facilitation Fundamentals and (Part 2) Advanced Facilitation. Participants can attend one or both Parts and will deepen their understanding of the importance of required elements in a Child and Family Team meeting, and be able to practice facilitation strategies and address common challenges that can arise in these meetings when working to improve outcomes for foster youth and other system-involved youth.

As social services case planning, mental health care, and general support has become more commonly provided via telehealth, it is important that those who support system-involved youth are aware of the legal and ethical issues related to services and support provided via telehealth. In this class participants will learn: 1) California Telehealth legal codes and Telehealth professional codes of ethics including: informed consent, privacy, working with people out of state, preparing for crisis, and handling technology failure; 2) Research on Telemental Health and 3) best practices when providing online support for system-involved youth.

The purpose of this training is to create a renewed and heightened awareness of boundary issues in work with foster youth. Having boundaries is not just a matter of being professional. Appropriate boundaries are a key ingredient in providing the children in our care with the highest quality of care, which often times requires us to build trusting and healing relationships with them.

This training will provide examples of extraordinary frameworks that could improve safety, well-being, and permanency outcomes for children in out-of-home care and how they can be used to find families of children who have no families and help permanently connect children with their kin.

In this training attendees will explore crisis interventions, case management approaches and resources using team based care. This training will feature tools and frameworks to provide youth centered trauma-informed care. This training will also use tools to navigate barriers and limitations to services to improve engagement.

Shame often accompanies trauma and can delay one’s ability to disclose their abuse which can delay one’s healing journey as well as create barriers to utilizing one’s support system. It is crucial for social service providers to understand the connection between shame and trauma. In this training, we will talk about how shame presents in services and what we can do to combat shame. One of the strategies that will be highlighted is self-compassion. Register Here

This Anger Management and Conflict Resolution Skills for System-Involved Youth training equips probation officers, caregivers and all other support/service providers of system-involved youth with trauma-informed strategies to recognize, de-escalate, and respond effectively to anger and conflict behaviors. Participants will explore the underlying causes of anger, including trauma, shame, and unmet needs, while learning how to model emotional regulation and teach constructive coping skills. Through interactive discussions and role-play, participants will practice communication techniques that foster trust, accountability, and resilience. The training emphasizes a healing-centered and relational approach, helping adults guide youth toward positive decision-making and emotional growth.

Foster youth are at high risk of unsafe/unhealthy behaviors, so it is necessary for those who support them to learn how to most effectively do so. Harm reduction is being identified as a best practice for reducing harm and increasing safety. This training will provide an overview of harm reduction and how apply it with at-risk system-involved youth. The trainer will focus on applying harm reduction principles in alignment with the Stages of Change model with system-involved youth. The trainer will also touch on risk identification and safety planning.

While mindfulness has grown in popularity to support individuals experiencing trauma, anxiety, depression, etc., it’s starting to be recognized as a helpful tool in addressing substance use with system-involved youth and transitional age youth. Join us as we’ll talk about how to apply mindfulness strategies with individuals in substance use recovery. Please register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/applying-mindfulness-strategies-for-youth-who-use-substance-tickets-1975636818908?aff=oddtdtcreator

Examine the reasons why you chose to work in this field. They can be a “double-edged sword”- by being both the very things that make us excellent at our work and that can also lead to compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma. Explore how our own “stuff” impacts our work with system-involved youth (SIY) and their families and, if you are a supervisor, how to support those you supervise with all of this. Discuss self-disclosure with system-involved youth and families, explore ourselves and countertransference, identify how we know when we are over-involved with those we support, and review ways to address this.

This course will provide an overview and introduction (or refresher) on the impact of domestic violence (DV) and intimate partner violence (IPV) on families and children for both new and experienced clinicians.

This course will provide an overview and introduction (or refresher) on the impact of domestic violence (DV) and intimate partner violence (IPV) on families and children for both new and experienced clinicians.

During this introductory training, facilitated fully in Spanish, designed for caregivers, professionals, social workers, educators and others who work with system-involved youth and families who have experienced trauma. The training will cover the principles of trauma-informed care, the effects of trauma on the brain and body, common responses to trauma, screening and assessment for trauma, trauma-informed communication and language, implementing trauma-informed care in organizations and practices and self-care for providers. The material will be delivered by PowerPoint presentation, short video clips, group discussion, breakout (small group) discussions and participant workbook (handout). Register Here

If you are a supervisor and are supervising unlicensed support providers who are working with system-involved youth and their families, this is an important training for you. We will focus on issues of culture in supervision and also on ethical boundaries in supervision and how this parallels boundaries that support providers need to establish and maintain their relationships with system-involved youth and their families.  We will also review the relevance of countertransference in the supervisory relationship and how to help supervisees identify this in order to stay focused on, and most effectively address, the needs of system-involved youth and their families.

This training will be provided in two parts: (Part 1) Facilitation Fundamentals and (Part 2) Advanced Facilitation. Participants can attend one or both Parts and will deepen their understanding of the importance of required elements in a Child and Family Team meeting, and be able to practice facilitation strategies and address common challenges that can arise in these meetings when working to improve outcomes for foster youth and other system-involved youth.

This training will be provided in two parts: (Part 1) Facilitation Fundamentals and (Part 2) Advanced Facilitation. Participants can attend one or both Parts and will deepen their understanding of the importance of required elements in a Child and Family Team meeting, and be able to practice facilitation strategies and address common challenges that can arise in these meetings when working to improve outcomes for foster youth and other system-involved youth.

As social services case planning, mental health care, and general support has become more commonly provided via telehealth, it is important that those who support system-involved youth are aware of the legal and ethical issues related to services and support provided via telehealth. In this class participants will learn: 1) California Telehealth legal codes and Telehealth professional codes of ethics including: informed consent, privacy, working with people out of state, preparing for crisis, and handling technology failure; 2) Research on Telemental Health and 3) best practices when providing online support for system-involved youth.

The purpose of this training is to create a renewed and heightened awareness of boundary issues in work with foster youth. Having boundaries is not just a matter of being professional. Appropriate boundaries are a key ingredient in providing the children in our care with the highest quality of care, which often times requires us to build trusting and healing relationships with them.

This training will provide examples of extraordinary frameworks that could improve safety, well-being, and permanency outcomes for children in out-of-home care and how they can be used to find families of children who have no families and help permanently connect children with their kin.

In this training attendees will explore crisis interventions, case management approaches and resources using team based care. This training will feature tools and frameworks to provide youth centered trauma-informed care. This training will also use tools to navigate barriers and limitations to services to improve engagement.

Shame often accompanies trauma and can delay one’s ability to disclose their abuse which can delay one’s healing journey as well as create barriers to utilizing one’s support system. It is crucial for social service providers to understand the connection between shame and trauma. In this training, we will talk about how shame presents in services and what we can do to combat shame. One of the strategies that will be highlighted is self-compassion. Register Here

This Anger Management and Conflict Resolution Skills for System-Involved Youth training equips probation officers, caregivers and all other support/service providers of system-involved youth with trauma-informed strategies to recognize, de-escalate, and respond effectively to anger and conflict behaviors. Participants will explore the underlying causes of anger, including trauma, shame, and unmet needs, while learning how to model emotional regulation and teach constructive coping skills. Through interactive discussions and role-play, participants will practice communication techniques that foster trust, accountability, and resilience. The training emphasizes a healing-centered and relational approach, helping adults guide youth toward positive decision-making and emotional growth.

Foster youth are at high risk of unsafe/unhealthy behaviors, so it is necessary for those who support them to learn how to most effectively do so. Harm reduction is being identified as a best practice for reducing harm and increasing safety. This training will provide an overview of harm reduction and how apply it with at-risk system-involved youth. The trainer will focus on applying harm reduction principles in alignment with the Stages of Change model with system-involved youth. The trainer will also touch on risk identification and safety planning.

While mindfulness has grown in popularity to support individuals experiencing trauma, anxiety, depression, etc., it’s starting to be recognized as a helpful tool in addressing substance use with system-involved youth and transitional age youth. Join us as we’ll talk about how to apply mindfulness strategies with individuals in substance use recovery. Please register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/applying-mindfulness-strategies-for-youth-who-use-substance-tickets-1975636818908?aff=oddtdtcreator

Examine the reasons why you chose to work in this field. They can be a “double-edged sword”- by being both the very things that make us excellent at our work and that can also lead to compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma. Explore how our own “stuff” impacts our work with system-involved youth (SIY) and their families and, if you are a supervisor, how to support those you supervise with all of this. Discuss self-disclosure with system-involved youth and families, explore ourselves and countertransference, identify how we know when we are over-involved with those we support, and review ways to address this.

This course will provide an overview and introduction (or refresher) on the impact of domestic violence (DV) and intimate partner violence (IPV) on families and children for both new and experienced clinicians.

This course will provide an overview and introduction (or refresher) on the impact of domestic violence (DV) and intimate partner violence (IPV) on families and children for both new and experienced clinicians.

During this introductory training, facilitated fully in Spanish, designed for caregivers, professionals, social workers, educators and others who work with system-involved youth and families who have experienced trauma. The training will cover the principles of trauma-informed care, the effects of trauma on the brain and body, common responses to trauma, screening and assessment for trauma, trauma-informed communication and language, implementing trauma-informed care in organizations and practices and self-care for providers. The material will be delivered by PowerPoint presentation, short video clips, group discussion, breakout (small group) discussions and participant workbook (handout). Register Here

If you are a supervisor and are supervising unlicensed support providers who are working with system-involved youth and their families, this is an important training for you. We will focus on issues of culture in supervision and also on ethical boundaries in supervision and how this parallels boundaries that support providers need to establish and maintain their relationships with system-involved youth and their families.  We will also review the relevance of countertransference in the supervisory relationship and how to help supervisees identify this in order to stay focused on, and most effectively address, the needs of system-involved youth and their families.

This training will be provided in two parts: (Part 1) Facilitation Fundamentals and (Part 2) Advanced Facilitation. Participants can attend one or both Parts and will deepen their understanding of the importance of required elements in a Child and Family Team meeting, and be able to practice facilitation strategies and address common challenges that can arise in these meetings when working to improve outcomes for foster youth and other system-involved youth.

This training will be provided in two parts: (Part 1) Facilitation Fundamentals and (Part 2) Advanced Facilitation. Participants can attend one or both Parts and will deepen their understanding of the importance of required elements in a Child and Family Team meeting, and be able to practice facilitation strategies and address common challenges that can arise in these meetings when working to improve outcomes for foster youth and other system-involved youth.

As social services case planning, mental health care, and general support has become more commonly provided via telehealth, it is important that those who support system-involved youth are aware of the legal and ethical issues related to services and support provided via telehealth. In this class participants will learn: 1) California Telehealth legal codes and Telehealth professional codes of ethics including: informed consent, privacy, working with people out of state, preparing for crisis, and handling technology failure; 2) Research on Telemental Health and 3) best practices when providing online support for system-involved youth.

The purpose of this training is to create a renewed and heightened awareness of boundary issues in work with foster youth. Having boundaries is not just a matter of being professional. Appropriate boundaries are a key ingredient in providing the children in our care with the highest quality of care, which often times requires us to build trusting and healing relationships with them.

This training will provide examples of extraordinary frameworks that could improve safety, well-being, and permanency outcomes for children in out-of-home care and how they can be used to find families of children who have no families and help permanently connect children with their kin.

In this training attendees will explore crisis interventions, case management approaches and resources using team based care. This training will feature tools and frameworks to provide youth centered trauma-informed care. This training will also use tools to navigate barriers and limitations to services to improve engagement.

Shame often accompanies trauma and can delay one’s ability to disclose their abuse which can delay one’s healing journey as well as create barriers to utilizing one’s support system. It is crucial for social service providers to understand the connection between shame and trauma. In this training, we will talk about how shame presents in services and what we can do to combat shame. One of the strategies that will be highlighted is self-compassion. Register Here

This Anger Management and Conflict Resolution Skills for System-Involved Youth training equips probation officers, caregivers and all other support/service providers of system-involved youth with trauma-informed strategies to recognize, de-escalate, and respond effectively to anger and conflict behaviors. Participants will explore the underlying causes of anger, including trauma, shame, and unmet needs, while learning how to model emotional regulation and teach constructive coping skills. Through interactive discussions and role-play, participants will practice communication techniques that foster trust, accountability, and resilience. The training emphasizes a healing-centered and relational approach, helping adults guide youth toward positive decision-making and emotional growth.

Foster youth are at high risk of unsafe/unhealthy behaviors, so it is necessary for those who support them to learn how to most effectively do so. Harm reduction is being identified as a best practice for reducing harm and increasing safety. This training will provide an overview of harm reduction and how apply it with at-risk system-involved youth. The trainer will focus on applying harm reduction principles in alignment with the Stages of Change model with system-involved youth. The trainer will also touch on risk identification and safety planning.

While mindfulness has grown in popularity to support individuals experiencing trauma, anxiety, depression, etc., it’s starting to be recognized as a helpful tool in addressing substance use with system-involved youth and transitional age youth. Join us as we’ll talk about how to apply mindfulness strategies with individuals in substance use recovery. Please register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/applying-mindfulness-strategies-for-youth-who-use-substance-tickets-1975636818908?aff=oddtdtcreator

Examine the reasons why you chose to work in this field. They can be a “double-edged sword”- by being both the very things that make us excellent at our work and that can also lead to compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma. Explore how our own “stuff” impacts our work with system-involved youth (SIY) and their families and, if you are a supervisor, how to support those you supervise with all of this. Discuss self-disclosure with system-involved youth and families, explore ourselves and countertransference, identify how we know when we are over-involved with those we support, and review ways to address this.

This course will provide an overview and introduction (or refresher) on the impact of domestic violence (DV) and intimate partner violence (IPV) on families and children for both new and experienced clinicians.

This course will provide an overview and introduction (or refresher) on the impact of domestic violence (DV) and intimate partner violence (IPV) on families and children for both new and experienced clinicians.

During this introductory training, facilitated fully in Spanish, designed for caregivers, professionals, social workers, educators and others who work with system-involved youth and families who have experienced trauma. The training will cover the principles of trauma-informed care, the effects of trauma on the brain and body, common responses to trauma, screening and assessment for trauma, trauma-informed communication and language, implementing trauma-informed care in organizations and practices and self-care for providers. The material will be delivered by PowerPoint presentation, short video clips, group discussion, breakout (small group) discussions and participant workbook (handout). Register Here

If you are a supervisor and are supervising unlicensed support providers who are working with system-involved youth and their families, this is an important training for you. We will focus on issues of culture in supervision and also on ethical boundaries in supervision and how this parallels boundaries that support providers need to establish and maintain their relationships with system-involved youth and their families.  We will also review the relevance of countertransference in the supervisory relationship and how to help supervisees identify this in order to stay focused on, and most effectively address, the needs of system-involved youth and their families.

This training will be provided in two parts: (Part 1) Facilitation Fundamentals and (Part 2) Advanced Facilitation. Participants can attend one or both Parts and will deepen their understanding of the importance of required elements in a Child and Family Team meeting, and be able to practice facilitation strategies and address common challenges that can arise in these meetings when working to improve outcomes for foster youth and other system-involved youth.

This training will be provided in two parts: (Part 1) Facilitation Fundamentals and (Part 2) Advanced Facilitation. Participants can attend one or both Parts and will deepen their understanding of the importance of required elements in a Child and Family Team meeting, and be able to practice facilitation strategies and address common challenges that can arise in these meetings when working to improve outcomes for foster youth and other system-involved youth.

As social services case planning, mental health care, and general support has become more commonly provided via telehealth, it is important that those who support system-involved youth are aware of the legal and ethical issues related to services and support provided via telehealth. In this class participants will learn: 1) California Telehealth legal codes and Telehealth professional codes of ethics including: informed consent, privacy, working with people out of state, preparing for crisis, and handling technology failure; 2) Research on Telemental Health and 3) best practices when providing online support for system-involved youth.

The purpose of this training is to create a renewed and heightened awareness of boundary issues in work with foster youth. Having boundaries is not just a matter of being professional. Appropriate boundaries are a key ingredient in providing the children in our care with the highest quality of care, which often times requires us to build trusting and healing relationships with them.

This training will provide examples of extraordinary frameworks that could improve safety, well-being, and permanency outcomes for children in out-of-home care and how they can be used to find families of children who have no families and help permanently connect children with their kin.

In this training attendees will explore crisis interventions, case management approaches and resources using team based care. This training will feature tools and frameworks to provide youth centered trauma-informed care. This training will also use tools to navigate barriers and limitations to services to improve engagement.

Shame often accompanies trauma and can delay one’s ability to disclose their abuse which can delay one’s healing journey as well as create barriers to utilizing one’s support system. It is crucial for social service providers to understand the connection between shame and trauma. In this training, we will talk about how shame presents in services and what we can do to combat shame. One of the strategies that will be highlighted is self-compassion. Register Here

This Anger Management and Conflict Resolution Skills for System-Involved Youth training equips probation officers, caregivers and all other support/service providers of system-involved youth with trauma-informed strategies to recognize, de-escalate, and respond effectively to anger and conflict behaviors. Participants will explore the underlying causes of anger, including trauma, shame, and unmet needs, while learning how to model emotional regulation and teach constructive coping skills. Through interactive discussions and role-play, participants will practice communication techniques that foster trust, accountability, and resilience. The training emphasizes a healing-centered and relational approach, helping adults guide youth toward positive decision-making and emotional growth.

Foster youth are at high risk of unsafe/unhealthy behaviors, so it is necessary for those who support them to learn how to most effectively do so. Harm reduction is being identified as a best practice for reducing harm and increasing safety. This training will provide an overview of harm reduction and how apply it with at-risk system-involved youth. The trainer will focus on applying harm reduction principles in alignment with the Stages of Change model with system-involved youth. The trainer will also touch on risk identification and safety planning.

While mindfulness has grown in popularity to support individuals experiencing trauma, anxiety, depression, etc., it’s starting to be recognized as a helpful tool in addressing substance use with system-involved youth and transitional age youth. Join us as we’ll talk about how to apply mindfulness strategies with individuals in substance use recovery. Please register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/applying-mindfulness-strategies-for-youth-who-use-substance-tickets-1975636818908?aff=oddtdtcreator

Examine the reasons why you chose to work in this field. They can be a “double-edged sword”- by being both the very things that make us excellent at our work and that can also lead to compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma. Explore how our own “stuff” impacts our work with system-involved youth (SIY) and their families and, if you are a supervisor, how to support those you supervise with all of this. Discuss self-disclosure with system-involved youth and families, explore ourselves and countertransference, identify how we know when we are over-involved with those we support, and review ways to address this.

This course will provide an overview and introduction (or refresher) on the impact of domestic violence (DV) and intimate partner violence (IPV) on families and children for both new and experienced clinicians.

This course will provide an overview and introduction (or refresher) on the impact of domestic violence (DV) and intimate partner violence (IPV) on families and children for both new and experienced clinicians.

During this introductory training, facilitated fully in Spanish, designed for caregivers, professionals, social workers, educators and others who work with system-involved youth and families who have experienced trauma. The training will cover the principles of trauma-informed care, the effects of trauma on the brain and body, common responses to trauma, screening and assessment for trauma, trauma-informed communication and language, implementing trauma-informed care in organizations and practices and self-care for providers. The material will be delivered by PowerPoint presentation, short video clips, group discussion, breakout (small group) discussions and participant workbook (handout). Register Here

If you are a supervisor and are supervising unlicensed support providers who are working with system-involved youth and their families, this is an important training for you. We will focus on issues of culture in supervision and also on ethical boundaries in supervision and how this parallels boundaries that support providers need to establish and maintain their relationships with system-involved youth and their families.  We will also review the relevance of countertransference in the supervisory relationship and how to help supervisees identify this in order to stay focused on, and most effectively address, the needs of system-involved youth and their families.

This training will be provided in two parts: (Part 1) Facilitation Fundamentals and (Part 2) Advanced Facilitation. Participants can attend one or both Parts and will deepen their understanding of the importance of required elements in a Child and Family Team meeting, and be able to practice facilitation strategies and address common challenges that can arise in these meetings when working to improve outcomes for foster youth and other system-involved youth.

This training will be provided in two parts: (Part 1) Facilitation Fundamentals and (Part 2) Advanced Facilitation. Participants can attend one or both Parts and will deepen their understanding of the importance of required elements in a Child and Family Team meeting, and be able to practice facilitation strategies and address common challenges that can arise in these meetings when working to improve outcomes for foster youth and other system-involved youth.

As social services case planning, mental health care, and general support has become more commonly provided via telehealth, it is important that those who support system-involved youth are aware of the legal and ethical issues related to services and support provided via telehealth. In this class participants will learn: 1) California Telehealth legal codes and Telehealth professional codes of ethics including: informed consent, privacy, working with people out of state, preparing for crisis, and handling technology failure; 2) Research on Telemental Health and 3) best practices when providing online support for system-involved youth.

The purpose of this training is to create a renewed and heightened awareness of boundary issues in work with foster youth. Having boundaries is not just a matter of being professional. Appropriate boundaries are a key ingredient in providing the children in our care with the highest quality of care, which often times requires us to build trusting and healing relationships with them.

This training will provide examples of extraordinary frameworks that could improve safety, well-being, and permanency outcomes for children in out-of-home care and how they can be used to find families of children who have no families and help permanently connect children with their kin.

In this training attendees will explore crisis interventions, case management approaches and resources using team based care. This training will feature tools and frameworks to provide youth centered trauma-informed care. This training will also use tools to navigate barriers and limitations to services to improve engagement.

Shame often accompanies trauma and can delay one’s ability to disclose their abuse which can delay one’s healing journey as well as create barriers to utilizing one’s support system. It is crucial for social service providers to understand the connection between shame and trauma. In this training, we will talk about how shame presents in services and what we can do to combat shame. One of the strategies that will be highlighted is self-compassion. Register Here

This Anger Management and Conflict Resolution Skills for System-Involved Youth training equips probation officers, caregivers and all other support/service providers of system-involved youth with trauma-informed strategies to recognize, de-escalate, and respond effectively to anger and conflict behaviors. Participants will explore the underlying causes of anger, including trauma, shame, and unmet needs, while learning how to model emotional regulation and teach constructive coping skills. Through interactive discussions and role-play, participants will practice communication techniques that foster trust, accountability, and resilience. The training emphasizes a healing-centered and relational approach, helping adults guide youth toward positive decision-making and emotional growth.

Foster youth are at high risk of unsafe/unhealthy behaviors, so it is necessary for those who support them to learn how to most effectively do so. Harm reduction is being identified as a best practice for reducing harm and increasing safety. This training will provide an overview of harm reduction and how apply it with at-risk system-involved youth. The trainer will focus on applying harm reduction principles in alignment with the Stages of Change model with system-involved youth. The trainer will also touch on risk identification and safety planning.

While mindfulness has grown in popularity to support individuals experiencing trauma, anxiety, depression, etc., it’s starting to be recognized as a helpful tool in addressing substance use with system-involved youth and transitional age youth. Join us as we’ll talk about how to apply mindfulness strategies with individuals in substance use recovery. Please register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/applying-mindfulness-strategies-for-youth-who-use-substance-tickets-1975636818908?aff=oddtdtcreator

Examine the reasons why you chose to work in this field. They can be a “double-edged sword”- by being both the very things that make us excellent at our work and that can also lead to compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma. Explore how our own “stuff” impacts our work with system-involved youth (SIY) and their families and, if you are a supervisor, how to support those you supervise with all of this. Discuss self-disclosure with system-involved youth and families, explore ourselves and countertransference, identify how we know when we are over-involved with those we support, and review ways to address this.

This course will provide an overview and introduction (or refresher) on the impact of domestic violence (DV) and intimate partner violence (IPV) on families and children for both new and experienced clinicians.

This course will provide an overview and introduction (or refresher) on the impact of domestic violence (DV) and intimate partner violence (IPV) on families and children for both new and experienced clinicians.

During this introductory training, facilitated fully in Spanish, designed for caregivers, professionals, social workers, educators and others who work with system-involved youth and families who have experienced trauma. The training will cover the principles of trauma-informed care, the effects of trauma on the brain and body, common responses to trauma, screening and assessment for trauma, trauma-informed communication and language, implementing trauma-informed care in organizations and practices and self-care for providers. The material will be delivered by PowerPoint presentation, short video clips, group discussion, breakout (small group) discussions and participant workbook (handout). Register Here

If you are a supervisor and are supervising unlicensed support providers who are working with system-involved youth and their families, this is an important training for you. We will focus on issues of culture in supervision and also on ethical boundaries in supervision and how this parallels boundaries that support providers need to establish and maintain their relationships with system-involved youth and their families.  We will also review the relevance of countertransference in the supervisory relationship and how to help supervisees identify this in order to stay focused on, and most effectively address, the needs of system-involved youth and their families.

This training will be provided in two parts: (Part 1) Facilitation Fundamentals and (Part 2) Advanced Facilitation. Participants can attend one or both Parts and will deepen their understanding of the importance of required elements in a Child and Family Team meeting, and be able to practice facilitation strategies and address common challenges that can arise in these meetings when working to improve outcomes for foster youth and other system-involved youth.

This training will be provided in two parts: (Part 1) Facilitation Fundamentals and (Part 2) Advanced Facilitation. Participants can attend one or both Parts and will deepen their understanding of the importance of required elements in a Child and Family Team meeting, and be able to practice facilitation strategies and address common challenges that can arise in these meetings when working to improve outcomes for foster youth and other system-involved youth.

As social services case planning, mental health care, and general support has become more commonly provided via telehealth, it is important that those who support system-involved youth are aware of the legal and ethical issues related to services and support provided via telehealth. In this class participants will learn: 1) California Telehealth legal codes and Telehealth professional codes of ethics including: informed consent, privacy, working with people out of state, preparing for crisis, and handling technology failure; 2) Research on Telemental Health and 3) best practices when providing online support for system-involved youth.

The purpose of this training is to create a renewed and heightened awareness of boundary issues in work with foster youth. Having boundaries is not just a matter of being professional. Appropriate boundaries are a key ingredient in providing the children in our care with the highest quality of care, which often times requires us to build trusting and healing relationships with them.

This training will provide examples of extraordinary frameworks that could improve safety, well-being, and permanency outcomes for children in out-of-home care and how they can be used to find families of children who have no families and help permanently connect children with their kin.

In this training attendees will explore crisis interventions, case management approaches and resources using team based care. This training will feature tools and frameworks to provide youth centered trauma-informed care. This training will also use tools to navigate barriers and limitations to services to improve engagement.