Foster Care Training

This course will focus on the importance of developing self-care practices for youth in care through exploring the social-emotional competencies of self-awareness and self-management. We will define and examine self-care as a practice for health and well-being, and explore how our emotional vocabulary helps build our capacity to understand ourselves, appreciate the impermanence of feelings, and enhance self-care skills. Through didactic, collaborative, and interactive learning, participants will explore why self-care is an essential practice for children/youth who have been traumatized, grieving, or distressed. Participants will learn how creative arts-based tools can foster self-compassion, deepen insight and connection with ourselves, and strengthen our mental, physical, and emotional well-being.