Foster Care Training

The experience of loss and secondary trauma for service providers, caregivers, and others who work with foster youth can at times impact quality care that is offered. This training looks at how vicarious and secondary trauma may impact those who work with system involved youth. This is an opportunity to explore the trauma that exists at micro and macro levels, and how these dynamics influence and are influenced by the direct dynamics within families and teams. Participants learn strategies to mitigate the effects of secondary trauma and strategies of sustainability for those who work long term with foster care.

From the time they enter the state’s care and likely long before, foster youth experience trauma that can severely alter their physical, emotional, and psychological well-being. The impact of trauma on foster youth can mean that this vulnerable population faces numerous additional challenges as they grow and develop into adulthood. Foster youth experience trauma in many ways, often starting at home. Youth will enter the foster care system because they have experienced physical or sexual abuse, neglect, a loss of a parent, or abandonment, forcing the state to step in. Other family stress factors such as poverty, substance abuse, mental illness, and incarceration can lead to a child’s removal from […]

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. Frequently the relationships we build with clients can have ambiguous boundaries, making it important to develop an awareness of possible danger signs for boundary issues that might result in poor practice or which might be red flags for potential exploitation of clients.

This training session is designed to prepare Intensive Care Coordinators at WestCoast Children’s Clinic to effectively utilize connection maps when working with foster youth. Participants will gain a deep understanding of the purpose and structure of connection maps, develop practical skills in creating and interpreting them, and learn to apply these maps with foster youth. The training also emphasizes enhancing youth engagement, fostering cultural competence, and promoting collaboration.

This training helps resource parents identify and respond to child abuse, focusing on signs of physical, emotional, sexual abuse, and neglect. It covers building trust, creating a safe environment, and understanding the effects of trauma. Resourse parents will also learn reporting protocols and how to work with agencies to ensure the child’s safety and well-being. The goal is to equip resource parents with the skills to protect and support children in their care.

This training helps resource parents identify and respond to child abuse, focusing on signs of physical, emotional, sexual abuse, and neglect. It covers building trust, creating a safe environment, and understanding the effects of trauma. Resource parents will also learn reporting protocols and how to work with agencies to ensure the child’s safety and well-being. The goal is to equip resource parents with the skills to protect and support children in their care.

This training presented in Spanish helps resource parents identify and respond to child abuse, focusing on signs of physical, emotional, sexual abuse, and neglect. It covers building trust, creating a safe environment, and understanding the effects of trauma. Resource parents will also learn reporting protocols and how to work with agencies to ensure the child’s safety and well-being. The goal is to equip resource parents with the skills to protect and support children in their care.

The experience of loss and secondary trauma for service providers, caregivers, and others who work with foster youth can at times impact quality care that is offered. This training looks at how vicarious and secondary trauma may impact those who work with system involved youth. This is an opportunity to explore the trauma that exists at micro and macro levels, and how these dynamics influence and are influenced by the direct dynamics within families and teams. Participants learn strategies to mitigate the effects of secondary trauma and strategies of sustainability for those who work long term with foster care.

From the time they enter the state’s care and likely long before, foster youth experience trauma that can severely alter their physical, emotional, and psychological well-being. The impact of trauma on foster youth can mean that this vulnerable population faces numerous additional challenges as they grow and develop into adulthood. Foster youth experience trauma in many ways, often starting at home. Youth will enter the foster care system because they have experienced physical or sexual abuse, neglect, a loss of a parent, or abandonment, forcing the state to step in. Other family stress factors such as poverty, substance abuse, mental illness, and incarceration can lead to a child’s removal from […]

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. Frequently the relationships we build with clients can have ambiguous boundaries, making it important to develop an awareness of possible danger signs for boundary issues that might result in poor practice or which might be red flags for potential exploitation of clients.

This training session is designed to prepare Intensive Care Coordinators at WestCoast Children’s Clinic to effectively utilize connection maps when working with foster youth. Participants will gain a deep understanding of the purpose and structure of connection maps, develop practical skills in creating and interpreting them, and learn to apply these maps with foster youth. The training also emphasizes enhancing youth engagement, fostering cultural competence, and promoting collaboration.

This training helps resource parents identify and respond to child abuse, focusing on signs of physical, emotional, sexual abuse, and neglect. It covers building trust, creating a safe environment, and understanding the effects of trauma. Resourse parents will also learn reporting protocols and how to work with agencies to ensure the child’s safety and well-being. The goal is to equip resource parents with the skills to protect and support children in their care.

This training helps resource parents identify and respond to child abuse, focusing on signs of physical, emotional, sexual abuse, and neglect. It covers building trust, creating a safe environment, and understanding the effects of trauma. Resource parents will also learn reporting protocols and how to work with agencies to ensure the child’s safety and well-being. The goal is to equip resource parents with the skills to protect and support children in their care.

This training presented in Spanish helps resource parents identify and respond to child abuse, focusing on signs of physical, emotional, sexual abuse, and neglect. It covers building trust, creating a safe environment, and understanding the effects of trauma. Resource parents will also learn reporting protocols and how to work with agencies to ensure the child’s safety and well-being. The goal is to equip resource parents with the skills to protect and support children in their care.

The experience of loss and secondary trauma for service providers, caregivers, and others who work with foster youth can at times impact quality care that is offered. This training looks at how vicarious and secondary trauma may impact those who work with system involved youth. This is an opportunity to explore the trauma that exists at micro and macro levels, and how these dynamics influence and are influenced by the direct dynamics within families and teams. Participants learn strategies to mitigate the effects of secondary trauma and strategies of sustainability for those who work long term with foster care.

From the time they enter the state’s care and likely long before, foster youth experience trauma that can severely alter their physical, emotional, and psychological well-being. The impact of trauma on foster youth can mean that this vulnerable population faces numerous additional challenges as they grow and develop into adulthood. Foster youth experience trauma in many ways, often starting at home. Youth will enter the foster care system because they have experienced physical or sexual abuse, neglect, a loss of a parent, or abandonment, forcing the state to step in. Other family stress factors such as poverty, substance abuse, mental illness, and incarceration can lead to a child’s removal from […]

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. Frequently the relationships we build with clients can have ambiguous boundaries, making it important to develop an awareness of possible danger signs for boundary issues that might result in poor practice or which might be red flags for potential exploitation of clients.

This training session is designed to prepare Intensive Care Coordinators at WestCoast Children’s Clinic to effectively utilize connection maps when working with foster youth. Participants will gain a deep understanding of the purpose and structure of connection maps, develop practical skills in creating and interpreting them, and learn to apply these maps with foster youth. The training also emphasizes enhancing youth engagement, fostering cultural competence, and promoting collaboration.

This training helps resource parents identify and respond to child abuse, focusing on signs of physical, emotional, sexual abuse, and neglect. It covers building trust, creating a safe environment, and understanding the effects of trauma. Resourse parents will also learn reporting protocols and how to work with agencies to ensure the child’s safety and well-being. The goal is to equip resource parents with the skills to protect and support children in their care.

This training helps resource parents identify and respond to child abuse, focusing on signs of physical, emotional, sexual abuse, and neglect. It covers building trust, creating a safe environment, and understanding the effects of trauma. Resource parents will also learn reporting protocols and how to work with agencies to ensure the child’s safety and well-being. The goal is to equip resource parents with the skills to protect and support children in their care.

This training presented in Spanish helps resource parents identify and respond to child abuse, focusing on signs of physical, emotional, sexual abuse, and neglect. It covers building trust, creating a safe environment, and understanding the effects of trauma. Resource parents will also learn reporting protocols and how to work with agencies to ensure the child’s safety and well-being. The goal is to equip resource parents with the skills to protect and support children in their care.

The experience of loss and secondary trauma for service providers, caregivers, and others who work with foster youth can at times impact quality care that is offered. This training looks at how vicarious and secondary trauma may impact those who work with system involved youth. This is an opportunity to explore the trauma that exists at micro and macro levels, and how these dynamics influence and are influenced by the direct dynamics within families and teams. Participants learn strategies to mitigate the effects of secondary trauma and strategies of sustainability for those who work long term with foster care.

From the time they enter the state’s care and likely long before, foster youth experience trauma that can severely alter their physical, emotional, and psychological well-being. The impact of trauma on foster youth can mean that this vulnerable population faces numerous additional challenges as they grow and develop into adulthood. Foster youth experience trauma in many ways, often starting at home. Youth will enter the foster care system because they have experienced physical or sexual abuse, neglect, a loss of a parent, or abandonment, forcing the state to step in. Other family stress factors such as poverty, substance abuse, mental illness, and incarceration can lead to a child’s removal from […]

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. Frequently the relationships we build with clients can have ambiguous boundaries, making it important to develop an awareness of possible danger signs for boundary issues that might result in poor practice or which might be red flags for potential exploitation of clients.

This training session is designed to prepare Intensive Care Coordinators at WestCoast Children’s Clinic to effectively utilize connection maps when working with foster youth. Participants will gain a deep understanding of the purpose and structure of connection maps, develop practical skills in creating and interpreting them, and learn to apply these maps with foster youth. The training also emphasizes enhancing youth engagement, fostering cultural competence, and promoting collaboration.

This training helps resource parents identify and respond to child abuse, focusing on signs of physical, emotional, sexual abuse, and neglect. It covers building trust, creating a safe environment, and understanding the effects of trauma. Resourse parents will also learn reporting protocols and how to work with agencies to ensure the child’s safety and well-being. The goal is to equip resource parents with the skills to protect and support children in their care.

This training helps resource parents identify and respond to child abuse, focusing on signs of physical, emotional, sexual abuse, and neglect. It covers building trust, creating a safe environment, and understanding the effects of trauma. Resource parents will also learn reporting protocols and how to work with agencies to ensure the child’s safety and well-being. The goal is to equip resource parents with the skills to protect and support children in their care.

This training presented in Spanish helps resource parents identify and respond to child abuse, focusing on signs of physical, emotional, sexual abuse, and neglect. It covers building trust, creating a safe environment, and understanding the effects of trauma. Resource parents will also learn reporting protocols and how to work with agencies to ensure the child’s safety and well-being. The goal is to equip resource parents with the skills to protect and support children in their care.

The experience of loss and secondary trauma for service providers, caregivers, and others who work with foster youth can at times impact quality care that is offered. This training looks at how vicarious and secondary trauma may impact those who work with system involved youth. This is an opportunity to explore the trauma that exists at micro and macro levels, and how these dynamics influence and are influenced by the direct dynamics within families and teams. Participants learn strategies to mitigate the effects of secondary trauma and strategies of sustainability for those who work long term with foster care.

From the time they enter the state’s care and likely long before, foster youth experience trauma that can severely alter their physical, emotional, and psychological well-being. The impact of trauma on foster youth can mean that this vulnerable population faces numerous additional challenges as they grow and develop into adulthood. Foster youth experience trauma in many ways, often starting at home. Youth will enter the foster care system because they have experienced physical or sexual abuse, neglect, a loss of a parent, or abandonment, forcing the state to step in. Other family stress factors such as poverty, substance abuse, mental illness, and incarceration can lead to a child’s removal from […]

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. Frequently the relationships we build with clients can have ambiguous boundaries, making it important to develop an awareness of possible danger signs for boundary issues that might result in poor practice or which might be red flags for potential exploitation of clients.

This training session is designed to prepare Intensive Care Coordinators at WestCoast Children’s Clinic to effectively utilize connection maps when working with foster youth. Participants will gain a deep understanding of the purpose and structure of connection maps, develop practical skills in creating and interpreting them, and learn to apply these maps with foster youth. The training also emphasizes enhancing youth engagement, fostering cultural competence, and promoting collaboration.

This training helps resource parents identify and respond to child abuse, focusing on signs of physical, emotional, sexual abuse, and neglect. It covers building trust, creating a safe environment, and understanding the effects of trauma. Resourse parents will also learn reporting protocols and how to work with agencies to ensure the child’s safety and well-being. The goal is to equip resource parents with the skills to protect and support children in their care.

This training helps resource parents identify and respond to child abuse, focusing on signs of physical, emotional, sexual abuse, and neglect. It covers building trust, creating a safe environment, and understanding the effects of trauma. Resource parents will also learn reporting protocols and how to work with agencies to ensure the child’s safety and well-being. The goal is to equip resource parents with the skills to protect and support children in their care.

This training presented in Spanish helps resource parents identify and respond to child abuse, focusing on signs of physical, emotional, sexual abuse, and neglect. It covers building trust, creating a safe environment, and understanding the effects of trauma. Resource parents will also learn reporting protocols and how to work with agencies to ensure the child’s safety and well-being. The goal is to equip resource parents with the skills to protect and support children in their care.

The experience of loss and secondary trauma for service providers, caregivers, and others who work with foster youth can at times impact quality care that is offered. This training looks at how vicarious and secondary trauma may impact those who work with system involved youth. This is an opportunity to explore the trauma that exists at micro and macro levels, and how these dynamics influence and are influenced by the direct dynamics within families and teams. Participants learn strategies to mitigate the effects of secondary trauma and strategies of sustainability for those who work long term with foster care.

From the time they enter the state’s care and likely long before, foster youth experience trauma that can severely alter their physical, emotional, and psychological well-being. The impact of trauma on foster youth can mean that this vulnerable population faces numerous additional challenges as they grow and develop into adulthood. Foster youth experience trauma in many ways, often starting at home. Youth will enter the foster care system because they have experienced physical or sexual abuse, neglect, a loss of a parent, or abandonment, forcing the state to step in. Other family stress factors such as poverty, substance abuse, mental illness, and incarceration can lead to a child’s removal from […]

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. Frequently the relationships we build with clients can have ambiguous boundaries, making it important to develop an awareness of possible danger signs for boundary issues that might result in poor practice or which might be red flags for potential exploitation of clients.

This training session is designed to prepare Intensive Care Coordinators at WestCoast Children’s Clinic to effectively utilize connection maps when working with foster youth. Participants will gain a deep understanding of the purpose and structure of connection maps, develop practical skills in creating and interpreting them, and learn to apply these maps with foster youth. The training also emphasizes enhancing youth engagement, fostering cultural competence, and promoting collaboration.

This training helps resource parents identify and respond to child abuse, focusing on signs of physical, emotional, sexual abuse, and neglect. It covers building trust, creating a safe environment, and understanding the effects of trauma. Resourse parents will also learn reporting protocols and how to work with agencies to ensure the child’s safety and well-being. The goal is to equip resource parents with the skills to protect and support children in their care.

This training helps resource parents identify and respond to child abuse, focusing on signs of physical, emotional, sexual abuse, and neglect. It covers building trust, creating a safe environment, and understanding the effects of trauma. Resource parents will also learn reporting protocols and how to work with agencies to ensure the child’s safety and well-being. The goal is to equip resource parents with the skills to protect and support children in their care.

This training presented in Spanish helps resource parents identify and respond to child abuse, focusing on signs of physical, emotional, sexual abuse, and neglect. It covers building trust, creating a safe environment, and understanding the effects of trauma. Resource parents will also learn reporting protocols and how to work with agencies to ensure the child’s safety and well-being. The goal is to equip resource parents with the skills to protect and support children in their care.

The experience of loss and secondary trauma for service providers, caregivers, and others who work with foster youth can at times impact quality care that is offered. This training looks at how vicarious and secondary trauma may impact those who work with system involved youth. This is an opportunity to explore the trauma that exists at micro and macro levels, and how these dynamics influence and are influenced by the direct dynamics within families and teams. Participants learn strategies to mitigate the effects of secondary trauma and strategies of sustainability for those who work long term with foster care.

From the time they enter the state’s care and likely long before, foster youth experience trauma that can severely alter their physical, emotional, and psychological well-being. The impact of trauma on foster youth can mean that this vulnerable population faces numerous additional challenges as they grow and develop into adulthood. Foster youth experience trauma in many ways, often starting at home. Youth will enter the foster care system because they have experienced physical or sexual abuse, neglect, a loss of a parent, or abandonment, forcing the state to step in. Other family stress factors such as poverty, substance abuse, mental illness, and incarceration can lead to a child’s removal from […]

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. Frequently the relationships we build with clients can have ambiguous boundaries, making it important to develop an awareness of possible danger signs for boundary issues that might result in poor practice or which might be red flags for potential exploitation of clients.

This training session is designed to prepare Intensive Care Coordinators at WestCoast Children’s Clinic to effectively utilize connection maps when working with foster youth. Participants will gain a deep understanding of the purpose and structure of connection maps, develop practical skills in creating and interpreting them, and learn to apply these maps with foster youth. The training also emphasizes enhancing youth engagement, fostering cultural competence, and promoting collaboration.

This training helps resource parents identify and respond to child abuse, focusing on signs of physical, emotional, sexual abuse, and neglect. It covers building trust, creating a safe environment, and understanding the effects of trauma. Resourse parents will also learn reporting protocols and how to work with agencies to ensure the child’s safety and well-being. The goal is to equip resource parents with the skills to protect and support children in their care.

This training helps resource parents identify and respond to child abuse, focusing on signs of physical, emotional, sexual abuse, and neglect. It covers building trust, creating a safe environment, and understanding the effects of trauma. Resource parents will also learn reporting protocols and how to work with agencies to ensure the child’s safety and well-being. The goal is to equip resource parents with the skills to protect and support children in their care.

This training presented in Spanish helps resource parents identify and respond to child abuse, focusing on signs of physical, emotional, sexual abuse, and neglect. It covers building trust, creating a safe environment, and understanding the effects of trauma. Resource parents will also learn reporting protocols and how to work with agencies to ensure the child’s safety and well-being. The goal is to equip resource parents with the skills to protect and support children in their care.

The experience of loss and secondary trauma for service providers, caregivers, and others who work with foster youth can at times impact quality care that is offered. This training looks at how vicarious and secondary trauma may impact those who work with system involved youth. This is an opportunity to explore the trauma that exists at micro and macro levels, and how these dynamics influence and are influenced by the direct dynamics within families and teams. Participants learn strategies to mitigate the effects of secondary trauma and strategies of sustainability for those who work long term with foster care.

From the time they enter the state’s care and likely long before, foster youth experience trauma that can severely alter their physical, emotional, and psychological well-being. The impact of trauma on foster youth can mean that this vulnerable population faces numerous additional challenges as they grow and develop into adulthood. Foster youth experience trauma in many ways, often starting at home. Youth will enter the foster care system because they have experienced physical or sexual abuse, neglect, a loss of a parent, or abandonment, forcing the state to step in. Other family stress factors such as poverty, substance abuse, mental illness, and incarceration can lead to a child’s removal from […]

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. Frequently the relationships we build with clients can have ambiguous boundaries, making it important to develop an awareness of possible danger signs for boundary issues that might result in poor practice or which might be red flags for potential exploitation of clients.

This training session is designed to prepare Intensive Care Coordinators at WestCoast Children’s Clinic to effectively utilize connection maps when working with foster youth. Participants will gain a deep understanding of the purpose and structure of connection maps, develop practical skills in creating and interpreting them, and learn to apply these maps with foster youth. The training also emphasizes enhancing youth engagement, fostering cultural competence, and promoting collaboration.

This training helps resource parents identify and respond to child abuse, focusing on signs of physical, emotional, sexual abuse, and neglect. It covers building trust, creating a safe environment, and understanding the effects of trauma. Resourse parents will also learn reporting protocols and how to work with agencies to ensure the child’s safety and well-being. The goal is to equip resource parents with the skills to protect and support children in their care.

This training helps resource parents identify and respond to child abuse, focusing on signs of physical, emotional, sexual abuse, and neglect. It covers building trust, creating a safe environment, and understanding the effects of trauma. Resource parents will also learn reporting protocols and how to work with agencies to ensure the child’s safety and well-being. The goal is to equip resource parents with the skills to protect and support children in their care.

This training presented in Spanish helps resource parents identify and respond to child abuse, focusing on signs of physical, emotional, sexual abuse, and neglect. It covers building trust, creating a safe environment, and understanding the effects of trauma. Resource parents will also learn reporting protocols and how to work with agencies to ensure the child’s safety and well-being. The goal is to equip resource parents with the skills to protect and support children in their care.

The experience of loss and secondary trauma for service providers, caregivers, and others who work with foster youth can at times impact quality care that is offered. This training looks at how vicarious and secondary trauma may impact those who work with system involved youth. This is an opportunity to explore the trauma that exists at micro and macro levels, and how these dynamics influence and are influenced by the direct dynamics within families and teams. Participants learn strategies to mitigate the effects of secondary trauma and strategies of sustainability for those who work long term with foster care.

From the time they enter the state’s care and likely long before, foster youth experience trauma that can severely alter their physical, emotional, and psychological well-being. The impact of trauma on foster youth can mean that this vulnerable population faces numerous additional challenges as they grow and develop into adulthood. Foster youth experience trauma in many ways, often starting at home. Youth will enter the foster care system because they have experienced physical or sexual abuse, neglect, a loss of a parent, or abandonment, forcing the state to step in. Other family stress factors such as poverty, substance abuse, mental illness, and incarceration can lead to a child’s removal from […]

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. Frequently the relationships we build with clients can have ambiguous boundaries, making it important to develop an awareness of possible danger signs for boundary issues that might result in poor practice or which might be red flags for potential exploitation of clients.

This training session is designed to prepare Intensive Care Coordinators at WestCoast Children’s Clinic to effectively utilize connection maps when working with foster youth. Participants will gain a deep understanding of the purpose and structure of connection maps, develop practical skills in creating and interpreting them, and learn to apply these maps with foster youth. The training also emphasizes enhancing youth engagement, fostering cultural competence, and promoting collaboration.

This training helps resource parents identify and respond to child abuse, focusing on signs of physical, emotional, sexual abuse, and neglect. It covers building trust, creating a safe environment, and understanding the effects of trauma. Resourse parents will also learn reporting protocols and how to work with agencies to ensure the child’s safety and well-being. The goal is to equip resource parents with the skills to protect and support children in their care.

This training helps resource parents identify and respond to child abuse, focusing on signs of physical, emotional, sexual abuse, and neglect. It covers building trust, creating a safe environment, and understanding the effects of trauma. Resource parents will also learn reporting protocols and how to work with agencies to ensure the child’s safety and well-being. The goal is to equip resource parents with the skills to protect and support children in their care.

This training presented in Spanish helps resource parents identify and respond to child abuse, focusing on signs of physical, emotional, sexual abuse, and neglect. It covers building trust, creating a safe environment, and understanding the effects of trauma. Resource parents will also learn reporting protocols and how to work with agencies to ensure the child’s safety and well-being. The goal is to equip resource parents with the skills to protect and support children in their care.

The experience of loss and secondary trauma for service providers, caregivers, and others who work with foster youth can at times impact quality care that is offered. This training looks at how vicarious and secondary trauma may impact those who work with system involved youth. This is an opportunity to explore the trauma that exists at micro and macro levels, and how these dynamics influence and are influenced by the direct dynamics within families and teams. Participants learn strategies to mitigate the effects of secondary trauma and strategies of sustainability for those who work long term with foster care.

From the time they enter the state’s care and likely long before, foster youth experience trauma that can severely alter their physical, emotional, and psychological well-being. The impact of trauma on foster youth can mean that this vulnerable population faces numerous additional challenges as they grow and develop into adulthood. Foster youth experience trauma in many ways, often starting at home. Youth will enter the foster care system because they have experienced physical or sexual abuse, neglect, a loss of a parent, or abandonment, forcing the state to step in. Other family stress factors such as poverty, substance abuse, mental illness, and incarceration can lead to a child’s removal from […]

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. Frequently the relationships we build with clients can have ambiguous boundaries, making it important to develop an awareness of possible danger signs for boundary issues that might result in poor practice or which might be red flags for potential exploitation of clients.

This training session is designed to prepare Intensive Care Coordinators at WestCoast Children’s Clinic to effectively utilize connection maps when working with foster youth. Participants will gain a deep understanding of the purpose and structure of connection maps, develop practical skills in creating and interpreting them, and learn to apply these maps with foster youth. The training also emphasizes enhancing youth engagement, fostering cultural competence, and promoting collaboration.

This training helps resource parents identify and respond to child abuse, focusing on signs of physical, emotional, sexual abuse, and neglect. It covers building trust, creating a safe environment, and understanding the effects of trauma. Resourse parents will also learn reporting protocols and how to work with agencies to ensure the child’s safety and well-being. The goal is to equip resource parents with the skills to protect and support children in their care.

This training helps resource parents identify and respond to child abuse, focusing on signs of physical, emotional, sexual abuse, and neglect. It covers building trust, creating a safe environment, and understanding the effects of trauma. Resource parents will also learn reporting protocols and how to work with agencies to ensure the child’s safety and well-being. The goal is to equip resource parents with the skills to protect and support children in their care.

This training presented in Spanish helps resource parents identify and respond to child abuse, focusing on signs of physical, emotional, sexual abuse, and neglect. It covers building trust, creating a safe environment, and understanding the effects of trauma. Resource parents will also learn reporting protocols and how to work with agencies to ensure the child’s safety and well-being. The goal is to equip resource parents with the skills to protect and support children in their care.