Foster Care Training

This training is geared towards anyone who serves and/or supports system-involved youth and families (case managers, family partners, therapists, community workers, supervisors, etc.) and will support training participants in understanding family relationships which can improve the support provided for system-involved youth/families using a strength-based lens with the PITH (Pain in the Heart) questions. Training participants will learn and gain awareness about traumatic attachment ruptures that system-involved youth and families have experienced and increase their understanding of structural and attachment-based theories which can enable service and support providers to more effectively help system-involved youth who have experienced multiple serious traumas in their lives. We will explore the link between past trauma, current feelings about the past trauma, and the fear of what might happen in the future. Since youth often act out these traumas in their behavioral symptoms, it is important to be able to understand these from their perspective so that we can more easily respond to the healing necessary to increase positive outcomes such as successful placements and reunification.