Foster Care Training

Training Summary: Working with foster and juvenile justice involved youth can be challenging given the generational patterns of trauma, poverty, incarceration, etc. So, it’s essential for providers to understand generational trauma and how to work with foster and juvenile justice-involved youth from a generational perspective. Without this perspective, we can have unrealistic expectations for youth and their families and encounter barriers to engagement. Providers will learn strategies to support system-involved youth with generational patterns of trauma within their families. Class Objectives: (what knowledge, ideas or skills will participants explore, learn, practice, etc during the training) 1. Explain at least one way generational trauma can impacts system-involved youth and families. 2. Identify at least one reason a family member may not acknowledge a system-involved youth’s trauma. 3. Identify at least 2 unintended consequences when providers only serve the system-involved youth and not the family as a whole. Participants will be able to: 1. Respond more empathically to system-involved youth and families experiencing generational trauma. 2. Consider generational trauma when engaging and supporting system involved youth
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