Foster Care Training

Training Summary: This training will explore the many facets of ending clinical services with youth and families, particularly setting up planned endings for success and finding closure with unplanned endings. We will review some of the feelings and reactions that influence the ending quality generated from the youth and caregivers and the service providers. We will also explore factors that impact planned endings, including the developmental and chronological age of the youth along with the sociocultural experience of loss and how this intersects with the youth’s and caregiver’s experience. We will review ways to prepare the service provider, the caregiver and youth to provide predictability they may not have had before. Resources and intervention ideas focused on the final few sessions will provide service providers with practical tools that they can implement during endings, including via telehealth. Class Objectives: (what knowledge, ideas or skills will participants explore, learn, practice, etc during the training) 1. Participants learn how to use at least 2 creative ideas for art interventions in the final session. 2. Participants will be able to identify at least 2 ways to feel prepared for a planned ending with a client. 3. Participants will consider clinical implications for common issues about the final sessions, such as cards, gifts, food, and ending contact. Participants will be able to: 1. Participants will be able to set up planned endings from much earlier in the treatment process, which allows the service provider and the youth and family to be prepared. 2. Participants will be able to provide concrete resources and interventions to use in the final several sessions, so that the service provider has a variety of tools to invite a full range of responses from the youth and family.
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