Foster Care Training

The workshop supports social service providers in building capacity for anti-carceral interventions to harm in their work with schools and systems-impacted families. The work of relational culture building requires the slow-paced presence to shift into new (and ancestral) ways of being – a cultural framework that uplifts being in right-relationship with each other and with our communities. The framework offered in this training is foundational for restorative and transformative justice practices when working with our communities, including systems impacted youth and families. Together, we will be learning through a lecture, presentation of case studies and scenarios for participants to work through, as well as tools for building emotional and somatic awareness and processing. We will be pushing back against the ways we have been socialized in our context into a culture of individualism, competition/ domination, and hierarchical relationships. The ways of being of our context encourage shame and the good/bad binary, which we will interrupt with supportive and cooperative process models, as well as a shared power model that we can practice and offer in our work with schools and families. The cultural shift towards relational culture cultivating will support us in building social-emotional / behavioral engagement that is aligned with social justice praxis, and ultimately centering our relationships as our greatest resource.