Foster Care Training

This training teaches how to understand family dynamics from a relational perspective that supports the development of plans for system-involved youth using a strength-based lens with the Pain in the Heart (PITH) healing questions. These questions were developed to utilize evidence-based elements from structural & attachment-based family theories in an applied way for youth who have experienced multiple serious trauma & attachment ruptures. We will explore the link between past trauma, current feelings about the past trauma, & fear of what might happen in the future. Since system-involved youth can act out traumas in their behavioral symptoms, it is important to be able to understand these from their perspective so that we can more easily respond and foster the healing necessary to increase positive outcomes using evidence-informed principles. This training is for anyone who supports system-involved youth in ANY capacity.