Foster Care Training

Advanced Harm Reduction Online Training Series
Sponsored by Mendocino County Youth Project
In these four 1.5 hrs. live online trainings, facilitators will be guiding thoughtful and relevant conversations and exercises in order to further strengthen professional Harm Reduction skills.

Part 2: COVID-19, Trauma and Harm Reduction
We will explore how helping professionals can use trauma informed care and harm reduction tools and skills to best support our clients, co-workers and self during this challenging pandemic. In this webinar we will:

• Collectively define trauma and discuss how we see it manifest in our work
• Apply the principles of Harm Reduction to trauma-informed practice
• Explore non-clinical trauma-informed engagement with people
• Understand self, power and positionality in relationship to person who has experienced trauma
• Discuss how to apply theory to practice in (at least) three concrete, actionable ways

Register Here

Online Trainings happening on Zoom meeting platform. Register separately for each training. It is important to register for each workshop for that is how one will receive relevant information.

Helpful tips for Zoom webinars:

Before the Session:

• Zoom can be downloaded onto smart phones, but typically better on laptops.
• Give yourself time to download Zoom prior to start time
• Check your connection (Ethernet is strongest if possible) before we begin (typically mobile hotspots and public access Wi-Fi don’t have enough bandwidth for Zoom sessions
• Make sure your video camera is operational
• Have phone number to call in as back up if you are having a hard time logging in
• Zoom login information and HR PowerPoint will be sent to all registered participants in an email a few days before

During the Session:

• Use your mic mute button when you are not speaking during the session
• There is a chat box feature and a place to raise your hand