Foster Care Training

This training will walk the participant through the primary neurological structures that support learning and relationships. Participants will walk away from this training understanding how emotional regulation supports executive functioning in both children and adults. Our brains save historical memories regarding relationships, emotional understanding, and entrenched stress responses. This training will outline how participants can increase their personal understanding of how their brain uses past experiences to shape current thoughts, actions and emotions. We will outline the skills of mental flexibility as is necessary in support of executive functioning which is key to emotional health, new learning, and healing trauma. The activities of mental flexibility are negatively impacted by trauma, poverty, environmental stress, and social inequity.

Attendees will be invited to take the lessons learned regarding their neurobiology to the consumer populations they support. How is historical memory or early life experiencing now impacting an individual’s social responses, emotional capacity and stress response? These areas impact learning, relationships, moral development and empathy. Understanding the brain is the key to understanding self and others.