Foster Care Training

Violence is becoming prevalent in all sectors of society and we are spinning towards becoming a nation of cultivated destructiveness. Violence touches our intra and interpersonal lives, spills into our communities and schools, our worldviews and global intentions. Violence is engulfing the world and discussions of deconstructing violence must necessarily consider, the lens of perception of those impacted. Joseph Chilton Pearce once said, that young children hear only about 7% of what adults say to them,  but intuit about 93% of what adults feel about them. What are the implications for children who intuit what teachers and social service providers think about them, their communities of origin, their abilities, their deservability, etc. In this training participants will learn about violence as a multi-determined phenomenon and will become familiar with notions of violence as public health issues. Participants will examine the preventability of violence in a variety of interpersonal and institutional aspects. We will learn about prevention and intervention tools and discuss their applicability to our work with families, in schools and within and between community dynamics. Participants will gain knowledge of violence embedded in our language and attitudes regarding diverse and marginalized populations. Additionally, participants will acquire skills at identifying the dynamics of power and dominance vs., cooperation and collaboration and note their impact on personal, socio-political relations. Together we will consider violence prevention solutions, learn about deliberative dialogues and study circles forming to dismantle the face and forms of violence.