Foster Care Training

This training will assist providers in reflecting on their own power and privilege within their personal identities, while also considering the intersectional context of their youth clients in out of home care. Through personal assessment, group discussion, and multimedia, participants will define microaggressions, bias, power, privilege, and learn to recognize them. Participants will review four frameworks (Client-Centered, Critical Race Theory, Person-in-Environment, and Trauma-Informed Care) to reflect on power & privilege dynamics within their work with youth and families. Finally, through group activity and roleplay, participants will develop personal strategies to intervene when witnessing the perpetration of damaging messages and embody what it feels like to respond in uncomfortable situations, particularly if clients or colleagues are not responsive to feedback. All definitions will be discussed in the context of system-involved youth, and the federal & California state laws & statutes governing non-discrimination in provision of care.