Foster Care Training

Supporting system-involved youth (SIY) requires extra supports to transcending their negative past experiences and “acting out” that comes with it, to effectively engaging them towards building a life that is constructive, brings value, provides income, inspires joy, and promotes success in social settings, academics, and career related activities, and brings about a feeling of security in the individual that leads to healthy engagement with community. Children and youth with anxious or avoidant spectrum relationship attachment styles may not respond to dopamine releasing praise from an adult. In order to guide these children and youth to “find their way”, a suggested approach would be to utilize restorative actions and strategic core verbal strategies. In this interactive training, we will explore how to enhance our capacity to support SIY by exploring the use of Restorative Actions and Strategic Core Verbal Strategies for Responding to Behavioral Challenges that foster the relationship building and strengths approaches with SIY that can motivate them to get excited about building a life worth living… to them! The practices shared in this training will enhance the skills of participants to promote SIY’s emotional development and wellbeing as well as strengthen their resilience and ability to heal from traumatic events and lead a meaningful life. Practicing and sharing the methods outlined by this training will allow us to improve the practice of how we empower system-involved youth.