Foster Care Training

Many providers do not practice stress reduction techniques despite endorsing the importance of self-care ideas, techniques, and recommendations with caregivers, youth, and families. With research demonstrating that the amount of time spent working with traumatized clients strongly predicted secondary trauma in helping professionals and caregivers, the necessity of self-care as a critical component of managing vicarious trauma is clear. Learning self-care practices experientially provides professionals with an additional level of familiarity in working with caregivers to implement their own self-care practices.

This two-hour course reviews the concept of the Escalation Curve when working with youth in care and provides opportunities for participants to discuss and practice support strategies to maintain safety as well as means of deescalating situations verbally.

Clients who have Substance Use Disorders are in every part of our system in work with foster youth. This 2-day 15-hour in-depth pre-licensure class will review assessment of substance-related disorders and strategies to support caregivers with Substance Use Disorder. It is also appropriate for anyone else in the behavioral health field who wants simply to learn more about this important issue to improve the outcomes for foster youth.

Clients who have Substance Use Disorders are in every part of our system in work with foster youth. This 2-day 15-hour in-depth pre-licensure class will review assessment of substance-related disorders and strategies to support caregivers with Substance Use Disorder. It is also appropriate for anyone else in the behavioral health field who wants simply to learn more about this important issue to improve the outcomes for foster youth.

If you are a supervisor and are supervising unlicensed support providers who are working with system-involved youth and their families, this is an important training for you. We will focus on issues of culture in supervision and also on ethical boundaries in supervision and how this parallels boundaries that support providers need to establish and maintain their relationships with system-involved youth and their families. We will also review the relevance of countertransference in the supervisory relationship and how to help supervisees identify this in order to stay focused on, and most effectively address, the needs of system-involved youth and their families.

Groups play a crucial role in the treatment and wellness of many individuals. Groups provide opportunities for youth to learn new skills, get support from peers, etc. Many social service providers provide workshops and groups for at-risk youth and many have not been formally taught how to facilitate groups. This training will provide an overview of best practices of group facilitation. Participants will also learn how to navigate challenging situations in groups such as redirecting a youth, a youth monopolizing the conversation, etc.

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.

When caring for and supporting foster youth you can often face challenges of crises, placement instability, or system pressures. These can lead to quick decisions or unintended consequences for youth and families, especially when the needs and strengths of youth are not maintained as a guiding force. This training focuses on the importance of self-reflection, humility and self-care as a means of building capacity to deliver care for foster youth who experience trauma.

This training session is designed to prepare Intensive Care Coordinators at WestCoast Children’s Clinic to effectively utilize connection maps when working with ofster 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.

In this training session, the trainer will present information on self-care and its importance in managing the effects of secondary trauma on caregivers and support personnel working with foster youth, using a combination of lecture and PowerPoint presentation. The trainer will explore the personal and professional impacts of compassion fatigue on helping professionals. The training materials will also outline ethical self-care principles, along with a statement of responsibility for self-care within the team of professionals supporting foster youth. Included in the materials will be assessment tools for identifying vulnerability to stress and quality of life scales. The session will also address how many caregivers may use denial as a coping […]

In this training session, the trainer will present information on self-care and its importance in managing the effects of secondary trauma on caregivers and support personnel working with foster youth, using a combination of lecture and PowerPoint presentation. The trainer will explore the personal and professional impacts of compassion fatigue on helping professionals. The training materials will also outline ethical self-care principles, along with a statement of responsibility for self-care within the team of professionals supporting foster youth. Included in the materials will be assessment tools for identifying vulnerability to stress and quality of life scales. The session will also address how many caregivers may use denial as a coping […]

In this training session, the trainer will present information on self-care and its importance in managing the effects of secondary trauma on caregivers and support personnel working with foster youth, using a combination of lecture and PowerPoint presentation. The trainer will explore the personal and professional impacts of compassion fatigue on helping professionals. The training materials will also outline ethical self-care principles, along with a statement of responsibility for self-care within the team of professionals supporting foster youth. Included in the materials will be assessment tools for identifying vulnerability to stress and quality of life scales. The session will also address how many caregivers may use denial as a coping […]

Many providers do not practice stress reduction techniques despite endorsing the importance of self-care ideas, techniques, and recommendations with caregivers, youth, and families. With research demonstrating that the amount of time spent working with traumatized clients strongly predicted secondary trauma in helping professionals and caregivers, the necessity of self-care as a critical component of managing vicarious trauma is clear. Learning self-care practices experientially provides professionals with an additional level of familiarity in working with caregivers to implement their own self-care practices.

This two-hour course reviews the concept of the Escalation Curve when working with youth in care and provides opportunities for participants to discuss and practice support strategies to maintain safety as well as means of deescalating situations verbally.

Clients who have Substance Use Disorders are in every part of our system in work with foster youth. This 2-day 15-hour in-depth pre-licensure class will review assessment of substance-related disorders and strategies to support caregivers with Substance Use Disorder. It is also appropriate for anyone else in the behavioral health field who wants simply to learn more about this important issue to improve the outcomes for foster youth.

Clients who have Substance Use Disorders are in every part of our system in work with foster youth. This 2-day 15-hour in-depth pre-licensure class will review assessment of substance-related disorders and strategies to support caregivers with Substance Use Disorder. It is also appropriate for anyone else in the behavioral health field who wants simply to learn more about this important issue to improve the outcomes for foster youth.

If you are a supervisor and are supervising unlicensed support providers who are working with system-involved youth and their families, this is an important training for you. We will focus on issues of culture in supervision and also on ethical boundaries in supervision and how this parallels boundaries that support providers need to establish and maintain their relationships with system-involved youth and their families. We will also review the relevance of countertransference in the supervisory relationship and how to help supervisees identify this in order to stay focused on, and most effectively address, the needs of system-involved youth and their families.

Groups play a crucial role in the treatment and wellness of many individuals. Groups provide opportunities for youth to learn new skills, get support from peers, etc. Many social service providers provide workshops and groups for at-risk youth and many have not been formally taught how to facilitate groups. This training will provide an overview of best practices of group facilitation. Participants will also learn how to navigate challenging situations in groups such as redirecting a youth, a youth monopolizing the conversation, etc.

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.

When caring for and supporting foster youth you can often face challenges of crises, placement instability, or system pressures. These can lead to quick decisions or unintended consequences for youth and families, especially when the needs and strengths of youth are not maintained as a guiding force. This training focuses on the importance of self-reflection, humility and self-care as a means of building capacity to deliver care for foster youth who experience trauma.

This training session is designed to prepare Intensive Care Coordinators at WestCoast Children’s Clinic to effectively utilize connection maps when working with ofster 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.

In this training session, the trainer will present information on self-care and its importance in managing the effects of secondary trauma on caregivers and support personnel working with foster youth, using a combination of lecture and PowerPoint presentation. The trainer will explore the personal and professional impacts of compassion fatigue on helping professionals. The training materials will also outline ethical self-care principles, along with a statement of responsibility for self-care within the team of professionals supporting foster youth. Included in the materials will be assessment tools for identifying vulnerability to stress and quality of life scales. The session will also address how many caregivers may use denial as a coping […]

In this training session, the trainer will present information on self-care and its importance in managing the effects of secondary trauma on caregivers and support personnel working with foster youth, using a combination of lecture and PowerPoint presentation. The trainer will explore the personal and professional impacts of compassion fatigue on helping professionals. The training materials will also outline ethical self-care principles, along with a statement of responsibility for self-care within the team of professionals supporting foster youth. Included in the materials will be assessment tools for identifying vulnerability to stress and quality of life scales. The session will also address how many caregivers may use denial as a coping […]

In this training session, the trainer will present information on self-care and its importance in managing the effects of secondary trauma on caregivers and support personnel working with foster youth, using a combination of lecture and PowerPoint presentation. The trainer will explore the personal and professional impacts of compassion fatigue on helping professionals. The training materials will also outline ethical self-care principles, along with a statement of responsibility for self-care within the team of professionals supporting foster youth. Included in the materials will be assessment tools for identifying vulnerability to stress and quality of life scales. The session will also address how many caregivers may use denial as a coping […]

Many providers do not practice stress reduction techniques despite endorsing the importance of self-care ideas, techniques, and recommendations with caregivers, youth, and families. With research demonstrating that the amount of time spent working with traumatized clients strongly predicted secondary trauma in helping professionals and caregivers, the necessity of self-care as a critical component of managing vicarious trauma is clear. Learning self-care practices experientially provides professionals with an additional level of familiarity in working with caregivers to implement their own self-care practices.

This two-hour course reviews the concept of the Escalation Curve when working with youth in care and provides opportunities for participants to discuss and practice support strategies to maintain safety as well as means of deescalating situations verbally.

Clients who have Substance Use Disorders are in every part of our system in work with foster youth. This 2-day 15-hour in-depth pre-licensure class will review assessment of substance-related disorders and strategies to support caregivers with Substance Use Disorder. It is also appropriate for anyone else in the behavioral health field who wants simply to learn more about this important issue to improve the outcomes for foster youth.

Clients who have Substance Use Disorders are in every part of our system in work with foster youth. This 2-day 15-hour in-depth pre-licensure class will review assessment of substance-related disorders and strategies to support caregivers with Substance Use Disorder. It is also appropriate for anyone else in the behavioral health field who wants simply to learn more about this important issue to improve the outcomes for foster youth.

If you are a supervisor and are supervising unlicensed support providers who are working with system-involved youth and their families, this is an important training for you. We will focus on issues of culture in supervision and also on ethical boundaries in supervision and how this parallels boundaries that support providers need to establish and maintain their relationships with system-involved youth and their families. We will also review the relevance of countertransference in the supervisory relationship and how to help supervisees identify this in order to stay focused on, and most effectively address, the needs of system-involved youth and their families.

Groups play a crucial role in the treatment and wellness of many individuals. Groups provide opportunities for youth to learn new skills, get support from peers, etc. Many social service providers provide workshops and groups for at-risk youth and many have not been formally taught how to facilitate groups. This training will provide an overview of best practices of group facilitation. Participants will also learn how to navigate challenging situations in groups such as redirecting a youth, a youth monopolizing the conversation, etc.

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.

When caring for and supporting foster youth you can often face challenges of crises, placement instability, or system pressures. These can lead to quick decisions or unintended consequences for youth and families, especially when the needs and strengths of youth are not maintained as a guiding force. This training focuses on the importance of self-reflection, humility and self-care as a means of building capacity to deliver care for foster youth who experience trauma.

This training session is designed to prepare Intensive Care Coordinators at WestCoast Children’s Clinic to effectively utilize connection maps when working with ofster 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.

In this training session, the trainer will present information on self-care and its importance in managing the effects of secondary trauma on caregivers and support personnel working with foster youth, using a combination of lecture and PowerPoint presentation. The trainer will explore the personal and professional impacts of compassion fatigue on helping professionals. The training materials will also outline ethical self-care principles, along with a statement of responsibility for self-care within the team of professionals supporting foster youth. Included in the materials will be assessment tools for identifying vulnerability to stress and quality of life scales. The session will also address how many caregivers may use denial as a coping […]

In this training session, the trainer will present information on self-care and its importance in managing the effects of secondary trauma on caregivers and support personnel working with foster youth, using a combination of lecture and PowerPoint presentation. The trainer will explore the personal and professional impacts of compassion fatigue on helping professionals. The training materials will also outline ethical self-care principles, along with a statement of responsibility for self-care within the team of professionals supporting foster youth. Included in the materials will be assessment tools for identifying vulnerability to stress and quality of life scales. The session will also address how many caregivers may use denial as a coping […]

In this training session, the trainer will present information on self-care and its importance in managing the effects of secondary trauma on caregivers and support personnel working with foster youth, using a combination of lecture and PowerPoint presentation. The trainer will explore the personal and professional impacts of compassion fatigue on helping professionals. The training materials will also outline ethical self-care principles, along with a statement of responsibility for self-care within the team of professionals supporting foster youth. Included in the materials will be assessment tools for identifying vulnerability to stress and quality of life scales. The session will also address how many caregivers may use denial as a coping […]

Many providers do not practice stress reduction techniques despite endorsing the importance of self-care ideas, techniques, and recommendations with caregivers, youth, and families. With research demonstrating that the amount of time spent working with traumatized clients strongly predicted secondary trauma in helping professionals and caregivers, the necessity of self-care as a critical component of managing vicarious trauma is clear. Learning self-care practices experientially provides professionals with an additional level of familiarity in working with caregivers to implement their own self-care practices.

This two-hour course reviews the concept of the Escalation Curve when working with youth in care and provides opportunities for participants to discuss and practice support strategies to maintain safety as well as means of deescalating situations verbally.

Clients who have Substance Use Disorders are in every part of our system in work with foster youth. This 2-day 15-hour in-depth pre-licensure class will review assessment of substance-related disorders and strategies to support caregivers with Substance Use Disorder. It is also appropriate for anyone else in the behavioral health field who wants simply to learn more about this important issue to improve the outcomes for foster youth.

Clients who have Substance Use Disorders are in every part of our system in work with foster youth. This 2-day 15-hour in-depth pre-licensure class will review assessment of substance-related disorders and strategies to support caregivers with Substance Use Disorder. It is also appropriate for anyone else in the behavioral health field who wants simply to learn more about this important issue to improve the outcomes for foster youth.

If you are a supervisor and are supervising unlicensed support providers who are working with system-involved youth and their families, this is an important training for you. We will focus on issues of culture in supervision and also on ethical boundaries in supervision and how this parallels boundaries that support providers need to establish and maintain their relationships with system-involved youth and their families. We will also review the relevance of countertransference in the supervisory relationship and how to help supervisees identify this in order to stay focused on, and most effectively address, the needs of system-involved youth and their families.

Groups play a crucial role in the treatment and wellness of many individuals. Groups provide opportunities for youth to learn new skills, get support from peers, etc. Many social service providers provide workshops and groups for at-risk youth and many have not been formally taught how to facilitate groups. This training will provide an overview of best practices of group facilitation. Participants will also learn how to navigate challenging situations in groups such as redirecting a youth, a youth monopolizing the conversation, etc.

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.

When caring for and supporting foster youth you can often face challenges of crises, placement instability, or system pressures. These can lead to quick decisions or unintended consequences for youth and families, especially when the needs and strengths of youth are not maintained as a guiding force. This training focuses on the importance of self-reflection, humility and self-care as a means of building capacity to deliver care for foster youth who experience trauma.

This training session is designed to prepare Intensive Care Coordinators at WestCoast Children’s Clinic to effectively utilize connection maps when working with ofster 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.

In this training session, the trainer will present information on self-care and its importance in managing the effects of secondary trauma on caregivers and support personnel working with foster youth, using a combination of lecture and PowerPoint presentation. The trainer will explore the personal and professional impacts of compassion fatigue on helping professionals. The training materials will also outline ethical self-care principles, along with a statement of responsibility for self-care within the team of professionals supporting foster youth. Included in the materials will be assessment tools for identifying vulnerability to stress and quality of life scales. The session will also address how many caregivers may use denial as a coping […]

In this training session, the trainer will present information on self-care and its importance in managing the effects of secondary trauma on caregivers and support personnel working with foster youth, using a combination of lecture and PowerPoint presentation. The trainer will explore the personal and professional impacts of compassion fatigue on helping professionals. The training materials will also outline ethical self-care principles, along with a statement of responsibility for self-care within the team of professionals supporting foster youth. Included in the materials will be assessment tools for identifying vulnerability to stress and quality of life scales. The session will also address how many caregivers may use denial as a coping […]

In this training session, the trainer will present information on self-care and its importance in managing the effects of secondary trauma on caregivers and support personnel working with foster youth, using a combination of lecture and PowerPoint presentation. The trainer will explore the personal and professional impacts of compassion fatigue on helping professionals. The training materials will also outline ethical self-care principles, along with a statement of responsibility for self-care within the team of professionals supporting foster youth. Included in the materials will be assessment tools for identifying vulnerability to stress and quality of life scales. The session will also address how many caregivers may use denial as a coping […]

Many providers do not practice stress reduction techniques despite endorsing the importance of self-care ideas, techniques, and recommendations with caregivers, youth, and families. With research demonstrating that the amount of time spent working with traumatized clients strongly predicted secondary trauma in helping professionals and caregivers, the necessity of self-care as a critical component of managing vicarious trauma is clear. Learning self-care practices experientially provides professionals with an additional level of familiarity in working with caregivers to implement their own self-care practices.

This two-hour course reviews the concept of the Escalation Curve when working with youth in care and provides opportunities for participants to discuss and practice support strategies to maintain safety as well as means of deescalating situations verbally.

Clients who have Substance Use Disorders are in every part of our system in work with foster youth. This 2-day 15-hour in-depth pre-licensure class will review assessment of substance-related disorders and strategies to support caregivers with Substance Use Disorder. It is also appropriate for anyone else in the behavioral health field who wants simply to learn more about this important issue to improve the outcomes for foster youth.

Clients who have Substance Use Disorders are in every part of our system in work with foster youth. This 2-day 15-hour in-depth pre-licensure class will review assessment of substance-related disorders and strategies to support caregivers with Substance Use Disorder. It is also appropriate for anyone else in the behavioral health field who wants simply to learn more about this important issue to improve the outcomes for foster youth.

If you are a supervisor and are supervising unlicensed support providers who are working with system-involved youth and their families, this is an important training for you. We will focus on issues of culture in supervision and also on ethical boundaries in supervision and how this parallels boundaries that support providers need to establish and maintain their relationships with system-involved youth and their families. We will also review the relevance of countertransference in the supervisory relationship and how to help supervisees identify this in order to stay focused on, and most effectively address, the needs of system-involved youth and their families.

Groups play a crucial role in the treatment and wellness of many individuals. Groups provide opportunities for youth to learn new skills, get support from peers, etc. Many social service providers provide workshops and groups for at-risk youth and many have not been formally taught how to facilitate groups. This training will provide an overview of best practices of group facilitation. Participants will also learn how to navigate challenging situations in groups such as redirecting a youth, a youth monopolizing the conversation, etc.

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.

When caring for and supporting foster youth you can often face challenges of crises, placement instability, or system pressures. These can lead to quick decisions or unintended consequences for youth and families, especially when the needs and strengths of youth are not maintained as a guiding force. This training focuses on the importance of self-reflection, humility and self-care as a means of building capacity to deliver care for foster youth who experience trauma.

This training session is designed to prepare Intensive Care Coordinators at WestCoast Children’s Clinic to effectively utilize connection maps when working with ofster 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.

In this training session, the trainer will present information on self-care and its importance in managing the effects of secondary trauma on caregivers and support personnel working with foster youth, using a combination of lecture and PowerPoint presentation. The trainer will explore the personal and professional impacts of compassion fatigue on helping professionals. The training materials will also outline ethical self-care principles, along with a statement of responsibility for self-care within the team of professionals supporting foster youth. Included in the materials will be assessment tools for identifying vulnerability to stress and quality of life scales. The session will also address how many caregivers may use denial as a coping […]

In this training session, the trainer will present information on self-care and its importance in managing the effects of secondary trauma on caregivers and support personnel working with foster youth, using a combination of lecture and PowerPoint presentation. The trainer will explore the personal and professional impacts of compassion fatigue on helping professionals. The training materials will also outline ethical self-care principles, along with a statement of responsibility for self-care within the team of professionals supporting foster youth. Included in the materials will be assessment tools for identifying vulnerability to stress and quality of life scales. The session will also address how many caregivers may use denial as a coping […]

In this training session, the trainer will present information on self-care and its importance in managing the effects of secondary trauma on caregivers and support personnel working with foster youth, using a combination of lecture and PowerPoint presentation. The trainer will explore the personal and professional impacts of compassion fatigue on helping professionals. The training materials will also outline ethical self-care principles, along with a statement of responsibility for self-care within the team of professionals supporting foster youth. Included in the materials will be assessment tools for identifying vulnerability to stress and quality of life scales. The session will also address how many caregivers may use denial as a coping […]

Many providers do not practice stress reduction techniques despite endorsing the importance of self-care ideas, techniques, and recommendations with caregivers, youth, and families. With research demonstrating that the amount of time spent working with traumatized clients strongly predicted secondary trauma in helping professionals and caregivers, the necessity of self-care as a critical component of managing vicarious trauma is clear. Learning self-care practices experientially provides professionals with an additional level of familiarity in working with caregivers to implement their own self-care practices.

This two-hour course reviews the concept of the Escalation Curve when working with youth in care and provides opportunities for participants to discuss and practice support strategies to maintain safety as well as means of deescalating situations verbally.

Clients who have Substance Use Disorders are in every part of our system in work with foster youth. This 2-day 15-hour in-depth pre-licensure class will review assessment of substance-related disorders and strategies to support caregivers with Substance Use Disorder. It is also appropriate for anyone else in the behavioral health field who wants simply to learn more about this important issue to improve the outcomes for foster youth.

Clients who have Substance Use Disorders are in every part of our system in work with foster youth. This 2-day 15-hour in-depth pre-licensure class will review assessment of substance-related disorders and strategies to support caregivers with Substance Use Disorder. It is also appropriate for anyone else in the behavioral health field who wants simply to learn more about this important issue to improve the outcomes for foster youth.

If you are a supervisor and are supervising unlicensed support providers who are working with system-involved youth and their families, this is an important training for you. We will focus on issues of culture in supervision and also on ethical boundaries in supervision and how this parallels boundaries that support providers need to establish and maintain their relationships with system-involved youth and their families. We will also review the relevance of countertransference in the supervisory relationship and how to help supervisees identify this in order to stay focused on, and most effectively address, the needs of system-involved youth and their families.

Groups play a crucial role in the treatment and wellness of many individuals. Groups provide opportunities for youth to learn new skills, get support from peers, etc. Many social service providers provide workshops and groups for at-risk youth and many have not been formally taught how to facilitate groups. This training will provide an overview of best practices of group facilitation. Participants will also learn how to navigate challenging situations in groups such as redirecting a youth, a youth monopolizing the conversation, etc.

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.

When caring for and supporting foster youth you can often face challenges of crises, placement instability, or system pressures. These can lead to quick decisions or unintended consequences for youth and families, especially when the needs and strengths of youth are not maintained as a guiding force. This training focuses on the importance of self-reflection, humility and self-care as a means of building capacity to deliver care for foster youth who experience trauma.

This training session is designed to prepare Intensive Care Coordinators at WestCoast Children’s Clinic to effectively utilize connection maps when working with ofster 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.

In this training session, the trainer will present information on self-care and its importance in managing the effects of secondary trauma on caregivers and support personnel working with foster youth, using a combination of lecture and PowerPoint presentation. The trainer will explore the personal and professional impacts of compassion fatigue on helping professionals. The training materials will also outline ethical self-care principles, along with a statement of responsibility for self-care within the team of professionals supporting foster youth. Included in the materials will be assessment tools for identifying vulnerability to stress and quality of life scales. The session will also address how many caregivers may use denial as a coping […]

In this training session, the trainer will present information on self-care and its importance in managing the effects of secondary trauma on caregivers and support personnel working with foster youth, using a combination of lecture and PowerPoint presentation. The trainer will explore the personal and professional impacts of compassion fatigue on helping professionals. The training materials will also outline ethical self-care principles, along with a statement of responsibility for self-care within the team of professionals supporting foster youth. Included in the materials will be assessment tools for identifying vulnerability to stress and quality of life scales. The session will also address how many caregivers may use denial as a coping […]

In this training session, the trainer will present information on self-care and its importance in managing the effects of secondary trauma on caregivers and support personnel working with foster youth, using a combination of lecture and PowerPoint presentation. The trainer will explore the personal and professional impacts of compassion fatigue on helping professionals. The training materials will also outline ethical self-care principles, along with a statement of responsibility for self-care within the team of professionals supporting foster youth. Included in the materials will be assessment tools for identifying vulnerability to stress and quality of life scales. The session will also address how many caregivers may use denial as a coping […]

Many providers do not practice stress reduction techniques despite endorsing the importance of self-care ideas, techniques, and recommendations with caregivers, youth, and families. With research demonstrating that the amount of time spent working with traumatized clients strongly predicted secondary trauma in helping professionals and caregivers, the necessity of self-care as a critical component of managing vicarious trauma is clear. Learning self-care practices experientially provides professionals with an additional level of familiarity in working with caregivers to implement their own self-care practices.

This two-hour course reviews the concept of the Escalation Curve when working with youth in care and provides opportunities for participants to discuss and practice support strategies to maintain safety as well as means of deescalating situations verbally.

Clients who have Substance Use Disorders are in every part of our system in work with foster youth. This 2-day 15-hour in-depth pre-licensure class will review assessment of substance-related disorders and strategies to support caregivers with Substance Use Disorder. It is also appropriate for anyone else in the behavioral health field who wants simply to learn more about this important issue to improve the outcomes for foster youth.

Clients who have Substance Use Disorders are in every part of our system in work with foster youth. This 2-day 15-hour in-depth pre-licensure class will review assessment of substance-related disorders and strategies to support caregivers with Substance Use Disorder. It is also appropriate for anyone else in the behavioral health field who wants simply to learn more about this important issue to improve the outcomes for foster youth.

If you are a supervisor and are supervising unlicensed support providers who are working with system-involved youth and their families, this is an important training for you. We will focus on issues of culture in supervision and also on ethical boundaries in supervision and how this parallels boundaries that support providers need to establish and maintain their relationships with system-involved youth and their families. We will also review the relevance of countertransference in the supervisory relationship and how to help supervisees identify this in order to stay focused on, and most effectively address, the needs of system-involved youth and their families.

Groups play a crucial role in the treatment and wellness of many individuals. Groups provide opportunities for youth to learn new skills, get support from peers, etc. Many social service providers provide workshops and groups for at-risk youth and many have not been formally taught how to facilitate groups. This training will provide an overview of best practices of group facilitation. Participants will also learn how to navigate challenging situations in groups such as redirecting a youth, a youth monopolizing the conversation, etc.

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.

When caring for and supporting foster youth you can often face challenges of crises, placement instability, or system pressures. These can lead to quick decisions or unintended consequences for youth and families, especially when the needs and strengths of youth are not maintained as a guiding force. This training focuses on the importance of self-reflection, humility and self-care as a means of building capacity to deliver care for foster youth who experience trauma.

This training session is designed to prepare Intensive Care Coordinators at WestCoast Children’s Clinic to effectively utilize connection maps when working with ofster 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.

In this training session, the trainer will present information on self-care and its importance in managing the effects of secondary trauma on caregivers and support personnel working with foster youth, using a combination of lecture and PowerPoint presentation. The trainer will explore the personal and professional impacts of compassion fatigue on helping professionals. The training materials will also outline ethical self-care principles, along with a statement of responsibility for self-care within the team of professionals supporting foster youth. Included in the materials will be assessment tools for identifying vulnerability to stress and quality of life scales. The session will also address how many caregivers may use denial as a coping […]

In this training session, the trainer will present information on self-care and its importance in managing the effects of secondary trauma on caregivers and support personnel working with foster youth, using a combination of lecture and PowerPoint presentation. The trainer will explore the personal and professional impacts of compassion fatigue on helping professionals. The training materials will also outline ethical self-care principles, along with a statement of responsibility for self-care within the team of professionals supporting foster youth. Included in the materials will be assessment tools for identifying vulnerability to stress and quality of life scales. The session will also address how many caregivers may use denial as a coping […]

In this training session, the trainer will present information on self-care and its importance in managing the effects of secondary trauma on caregivers and support personnel working with foster youth, using a combination of lecture and PowerPoint presentation. The trainer will explore the personal and professional impacts of compassion fatigue on helping professionals. The training materials will also outline ethical self-care principles, along with a statement of responsibility for self-care within the team of professionals supporting foster youth. Included in the materials will be assessment tools for identifying vulnerability to stress and quality of life scales. The session will also address how many caregivers may use denial as a coping […]

Many providers do not practice stress reduction techniques despite endorsing the importance of self-care ideas, techniques, and recommendations with caregivers, youth, and families. With research demonstrating that the amount of time spent working with traumatized clients strongly predicted secondary trauma in helping professionals and caregivers, the necessity of self-care as a critical component of managing vicarious trauma is clear. Learning self-care practices experientially provides professionals with an additional level of familiarity in working with caregivers to implement their own self-care practices.

This two-hour course reviews the concept of the Escalation Curve when working with youth in care and provides opportunities for participants to discuss and practice support strategies to maintain safety as well as means of deescalating situations verbally.

Clients who have Substance Use Disorders are in every part of our system in work with foster youth. This 2-day 15-hour in-depth pre-licensure class will review assessment of substance-related disorders and strategies to support caregivers with Substance Use Disorder. It is also appropriate for anyone else in the behavioral health field who wants simply to learn more about this important issue to improve the outcomes for foster youth.

Clients who have Substance Use Disorders are in every part of our system in work with foster youth. This 2-day 15-hour in-depth pre-licensure class will review assessment of substance-related disorders and strategies to support caregivers with Substance Use Disorder. It is also appropriate for anyone else in the behavioral health field who wants simply to learn more about this important issue to improve the outcomes for foster youth.

If you are a supervisor and are supervising unlicensed support providers who are working with system-involved youth and their families, this is an important training for you. We will focus on issues of culture in supervision and also on ethical boundaries in supervision and how this parallels boundaries that support providers need to establish and maintain their relationships with system-involved youth and their families. We will also review the relevance of countertransference in the supervisory relationship and how to help supervisees identify this in order to stay focused on, and most effectively address, the needs of system-involved youth and their families.

Groups play a crucial role in the treatment and wellness of many individuals. Groups provide opportunities for youth to learn new skills, get support from peers, etc. Many social service providers provide workshops and groups for at-risk youth and many have not been formally taught how to facilitate groups. This training will provide an overview of best practices of group facilitation. Participants will also learn how to navigate challenging situations in groups such as redirecting a youth, a youth monopolizing the conversation, etc.

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.

When caring for and supporting foster youth you can often face challenges of crises, placement instability, or system pressures. These can lead to quick decisions or unintended consequences for youth and families, especially when the needs and strengths of youth are not maintained as a guiding force. This training focuses on the importance of self-reflection, humility and self-care as a means of building capacity to deliver care for foster youth who experience trauma.

This training session is designed to prepare Intensive Care Coordinators at WestCoast Children’s Clinic to effectively utilize connection maps when working with ofster 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.

In this training session, the trainer will present information on self-care and its importance in managing the effects of secondary trauma on caregivers and support personnel working with foster youth, using a combination of lecture and PowerPoint presentation. The trainer will explore the personal and professional impacts of compassion fatigue on helping professionals. The training materials will also outline ethical self-care principles, along with a statement of responsibility for self-care within the team of professionals supporting foster youth. Included in the materials will be assessment tools for identifying vulnerability to stress and quality of life scales. The session will also address how many caregivers may use denial as a coping […]

In this training session, the trainer will present information on self-care and its importance in managing the effects of secondary trauma on caregivers and support personnel working with foster youth, using a combination of lecture and PowerPoint presentation. The trainer will explore the personal and professional impacts of compassion fatigue on helping professionals. The training materials will also outline ethical self-care principles, along with a statement of responsibility for self-care within the team of professionals supporting foster youth. Included in the materials will be assessment tools for identifying vulnerability to stress and quality of life scales. The session will also address how many caregivers may use denial as a coping […]

In this training session, the trainer will present information on self-care and its importance in managing the effects of secondary trauma on caregivers and support personnel working with foster youth, using a combination of lecture and PowerPoint presentation. The trainer will explore the personal and professional impacts of compassion fatigue on helping professionals. The training materials will also outline ethical self-care principles, along with a statement of responsibility for self-care within the team of professionals supporting foster youth. Included in the materials will be assessment tools for identifying vulnerability to stress and quality of life scales. The session will also address how many caregivers may use denial as a coping […]

Many providers do not practice stress reduction techniques despite endorsing the importance of self-care ideas, techniques, and recommendations with caregivers, youth, and families. With research demonstrating that the amount of time spent working with traumatized clients strongly predicted secondary trauma in helping professionals and caregivers, the necessity of self-care as a critical component of managing vicarious trauma is clear. Learning self-care practices experientially provides professionals with an additional level of familiarity in working with caregivers to implement their own self-care practices.

This two-hour course reviews the concept of the Escalation Curve when working with youth in care and provides opportunities for participants to discuss and practice support strategies to maintain safety as well as means of deescalating situations verbally.

Clients who have Substance Use Disorders are in every part of our system in work with foster youth. This 2-day 15-hour in-depth pre-licensure class will review assessment of substance-related disorders and strategies to support caregivers with Substance Use Disorder. It is also appropriate for anyone else in the behavioral health field who wants simply to learn more about this important issue to improve the outcomes for foster youth.

Clients who have Substance Use Disorders are in every part of our system in work with foster youth. This 2-day 15-hour in-depth pre-licensure class will review assessment of substance-related disorders and strategies to support caregivers with Substance Use Disorder. It is also appropriate for anyone else in the behavioral health field who wants simply to learn more about this important issue to improve the outcomes for foster youth.

If you are a supervisor and are supervising unlicensed support providers who are working with system-involved youth and their families, this is an important training for you. We will focus on issues of culture in supervision and also on ethical boundaries in supervision and how this parallels boundaries that support providers need to establish and maintain their relationships with system-involved youth and their families. We will also review the relevance of countertransference in the supervisory relationship and how to help supervisees identify this in order to stay focused on, and most effectively address, the needs of system-involved youth and their families.

Groups play a crucial role in the treatment and wellness of many individuals. Groups provide opportunities for youth to learn new skills, get support from peers, etc. Many social service providers provide workshops and groups for at-risk youth and many have not been formally taught how to facilitate groups. This training will provide an overview of best practices of group facilitation. Participants will also learn how to navigate challenging situations in groups such as redirecting a youth, a youth monopolizing the conversation, etc.

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.

When caring for and supporting foster youth you can often face challenges of crises, placement instability, or system pressures. These can lead to quick decisions or unintended consequences for youth and families, especially when the needs and strengths of youth are not maintained as a guiding force. This training focuses on the importance of self-reflection, humility and self-care as a means of building capacity to deliver care for foster youth who experience trauma.

This training session is designed to prepare Intensive Care Coordinators at WestCoast Children’s Clinic to effectively utilize connection maps when working with ofster 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.

In this training session, the trainer will present information on self-care and its importance in managing the effects of secondary trauma on caregivers and support personnel working with foster youth, using a combination of lecture and PowerPoint presentation. The trainer will explore the personal and professional impacts of compassion fatigue on helping professionals. The training materials will also outline ethical self-care principles, along with a statement of responsibility for self-care within the team of professionals supporting foster youth. Included in the materials will be assessment tools for identifying vulnerability to stress and quality of life scales. The session will also address how many caregivers may use denial as a coping […]

In this training session, the trainer will present information on self-care and its importance in managing the effects of secondary trauma on caregivers and support personnel working with foster youth, using a combination of lecture and PowerPoint presentation. The trainer will explore the personal and professional impacts of compassion fatigue on helping professionals. The training materials will also outline ethical self-care principles, along with a statement of responsibility for self-care within the team of professionals supporting foster youth. Included in the materials will be assessment tools for identifying vulnerability to stress and quality of life scales. The session will also address how many caregivers may use denial as a coping […]

In this training session, the trainer will present information on self-care and its importance in managing the effects of secondary trauma on caregivers and support personnel working with foster youth, using a combination of lecture and PowerPoint presentation. The trainer will explore the personal and professional impacts of compassion fatigue on helping professionals. The training materials will also outline ethical self-care principles, along with a statement of responsibility for self-care within the team of professionals supporting foster youth. Included in the materials will be assessment tools for identifying vulnerability to stress and quality of life scales. The session will also address how many caregivers may use denial as a coping […]

Many providers do not practice stress reduction techniques despite endorsing the importance of self-care ideas, techniques, and recommendations with caregivers, youth, and families. With research demonstrating that the amount of time spent working with traumatized clients strongly predicted secondary trauma in helping professionals and caregivers, the necessity of self-care as a critical component of managing vicarious trauma is clear. Learning self-care practices experientially provides professionals with an additional level of familiarity in working with caregivers to implement their own self-care practices.

This two-hour course reviews the concept of the Escalation Curve when working with youth in care and provides opportunities for participants to discuss and practice support strategies to maintain safety as well as means of deescalating situations verbally.

Clients who have Substance Use Disorders are in every part of our system in work with foster youth. This 2-day 15-hour in-depth pre-licensure class will review assessment of substance-related disorders and strategies to support caregivers with Substance Use Disorder. It is also appropriate for anyone else in the behavioral health field who wants simply to learn more about this important issue to improve the outcomes for foster youth.

Clients who have Substance Use Disorders are in every part of our system in work with foster youth. This 2-day 15-hour in-depth pre-licensure class will review assessment of substance-related disorders and strategies to support caregivers with Substance Use Disorder. It is also appropriate for anyone else in the behavioral health field who wants simply to learn more about this important issue to improve the outcomes for foster youth.

If you are a supervisor and are supervising unlicensed support providers who are working with system-involved youth and their families, this is an important training for you. We will focus on issues of culture in supervision and also on ethical boundaries in supervision and how this parallels boundaries that support providers need to establish and maintain their relationships with system-involved youth and their families. We will also review the relevance of countertransference in the supervisory relationship and how to help supervisees identify this in order to stay focused on, and most effectively address, the needs of system-involved youth and their families.

Groups play a crucial role in the treatment and wellness of many individuals. Groups provide opportunities for youth to learn new skills, get support from peers, etc. Many social service providers provide workshops and groups for at-risk youth and many have not been formally taught how to facilitate groups. This training will provide an overview of best practices of group facilitation. Participants will also learn how to navigate challenging situations in groups such as redirecting a youth, a youth monopolizing the conversation, etc.

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.

When caring for and supporting foster youth you can often face challenges of crises, placement instability, or system pressures. These can lead to quick decisions or unintended consequences for youth and families, especially when the needs and strengths of youth are not maintained as a guiding force. This training focuses on the importance of self-reflection, humility and self-care as a means of building capacity to deliver care for foster youth who experience trauma.

This training session is designed to prepare Intensive Care Coordinators at WestCoast Children’s Clinic to effectively utilize connection maps when working with ofster 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.

In this training session, the trainer will present information on self-care and its importance in managing the effects of secondary trauma on caregivers and support personnel working with foster youth, using a combination of lecture and PowerPoint presentation. The trainer will explore the personal and professional impacts of compassion fatigue on helping professionals. The training materials will also outline ethical self-care principles, along with a statement of responsibility for self-care within the team of professionals supporting foster youth. Included in the materials will be assessment tools for identifying vulnerability to stress and quality of life scales. The session will also address how many caregivers may use denial as a coping […]

In this training session, the trainer will present information on self-care and its importance in managing the effects of secondary trauma on caregivers and support personnel working with foster youth, using a combination of lecture and PowerPoint presentation. The trainer will explore the personal and professional impacts of compassion fatigue on helping professionals. The training materials will also outline ethical self-care principles, along with a statement of responsibility for self-care within the team of professionals supporting foster youth. Included in the materials will be assessment tools for identifying vulnerability to stress and quality of life scales. The session will also address how many caregivers may use denial as a coping […]

In this training session, the trainer will present information on self-care and its importance in managing the effects of secondary trauma on caregivers and support personnel working with foster youth, using a combination of lecture and PowerPoint presentation. The trainer will explore the personal and professional impacts of compassion fatigue on helping professionals. The training materials will also outline ethical self-care principles, along with a statement of responsibility for self-care within the team of professionals supporting foster youth. Included in the materials will be assessment tools for identifying vulnerability to stress and quality of life scales. The session will also address how many caregivers may use denial as a coping […]