Foster Care Training

Examine the reasons why you chose to support system involved youth and families. They can be a “double-edged sword”— by being both the very things that make us excellent at supporting them and they can also cause our burn-out. Explore how our own “stuff” impacts our efforts to support system-involved youth and their families and, if you work with others who support system involved youth, how to support each other. Discuss self-disclosure with system involved youth and families, explore ourselves and countertransference, identify how we know when we are over-involved with system involved youth we support, and review ways to address this.