Foster Care Training

The focus of this training/seminar series is to honor the toll of racial trauma on queer & trans youth of color, to explore ways to support their cultural needs in complex systems. The training will facilitate conversations around accountability, collective action, and collective healing by connecting liberation psychology theory and praxis to achieve mental health justice and explore ways to support youth and families around mental health needs. This training will focus on connecting liberation social movements within liberation movements in mental health services. This training addresses how these concepts impact the overall health of foster youth, youth in probation, or youth at risk of involvement in systems. In the training, we address ways to shape change in systems that have been historically oppressive to queer, black, indigenous youth and children of color. This training will foster dialogues on accountability of service providers working to support queer and trans youth of color.