Foster Care Training

This workshop will discuss the importance and the power of relationships especially for youth and families involved in the welfare/probation systems. This workshop will discuss the importance of attachment through the 0-5 years and how that impacts ongoing relationships. This workshop will address what it is that relationships need in order to thrive. Additionally, this workshop will provide experiential activities in order to practice reflective listening and empathic responding with clients during nonverbal communication in play. Participants will also learn about the importance of parallel process in therapy and learn specific interventions for co-regulation as well as self-regulation in order to help improve relationships between clients and their caregivers. This training is relevant to working with youth and families involved in the welfare/probation systems as it provides participants with tools to help youth and their families repair ruptures in attachment.