Foster Care Training

Online Class

This first workshop of a 2-part series is designed to present and consider the impact of multiple forms of trauma and oppression on adolescent foster youth and their families and communities as well as build shared language and commitment to implementing and sustaining trauma-informed, culturally-grounded healing policies and practices. The aim of the training is to work together to gain new insights into the dynamic and systemic impact of violence on individual and community development, the impacts of personal and collective trauma on adolescent mental health, and strengthen successful clinical and organizational practices for serving trauma-exposed youth and communities.

The training builds on the efforts and findings of the RYSE Center’s Listening Campaign in Richmond, CA, a community-grounded, participatory research process that engaged over 450 youth to understand with more sensitivity, clarity, and empathy the lived experiences of young people burdened with trauma exposure, marginalization, and histories of oppression. The training’s aim is to highlight the needs and insights that adolescents have shared to inform more effective services for foster youth exposed to multiple layers of trauma.