Being Trauma-informed and Culturally Responsive within Efforts to Support System Involved Youth

Anisa Mustafa

Training Description

This engaging and immersive training will equip participants with trauma-responsive and culturally responsive knowledge and skills for working with system-involved youth. Through this experiential training, participants will explore their own experiences with these subjects, learn ways to build resilience, and gain trauma-informed strategies for working with system-involved youth to improve outcomes.

In this training, we will discuss the concepts of intersectionality as a basis for a trauma-informed and culturally responsive approaches when working with system-involved youth and their families. Participants will gain a trauma-informed and culturally responsive understanding of how traumatic system involvement impacts system-involved youth. Through lecture and breakout group discussions participants will identify the difference between compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma and create action plans to counteract the effect of these experiences, to improve the effectiveness of support for system involved youth and families.

Learning Objective

· Participants will be able to identify SAMHSA’s Six (6) Key Principles of a Trauma-Informed Approach.

· Participants will be able to explain and apply the concept of intersectionality as a basis for a trauma-informed and culturally responsive approach when working with system-involved youth.

· Participants will acquire four key trauma-informed strategies for working with system-involved youth.

Agenda 

10 :00 – 10:30am Welcome & Introductions

10:30 – 11:00am Support Statements

11:00 – 11:30 am Defining Trauma, Why It’s Not the Event and The Three E’s of Trauma

11:30 – 11:45am  Break (CE Hours will not be offered for this time)

11:45am – 12:45pm  Trauma and the Individual, Intersectionality and Cultural Responsivity

12:45 – 1:15pm  Lunch (CE Hours will not be offered for this time)

1:15 – 2:15pm  SAMHSA’s Six (6) Key Principles of a Trauma-Informed Approach

2:15 – 2:30pm  Break (CE Hours will not be offered for this time)

2:30 – 2:45pm  Four Strategies for a Trauma-Responsive Approach

2:45 – 3:00pm  Debrief and Check-Out

Meet Our Trainers

Anisa Mustafa is currently responsible for National and International Trauma, Crisis and Mental Health Recovery, Community Inclusion, Psychiatric Advanced Directives, Wellness/Recovery Education programs, certification training, curriculum development, and sourcing of initiatives through implementation.

This course meets the qualifications for (4) BBS CE hours for LCSWs, LMFTs, LPCCs, and LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences & is provided by Fred Finch Youth Center, CAMFT Provider #045295.