Child Development Stages & the Grief Process-Developing & Promoting Healthy Family Dynamics for System Involved Youth

Shoshana Phoenixx

Training Description

This training will teach training participants how to perform creative/artistic activities they can use to help system-involved-youth to process grief experiences and build stronger relationships with those around them. First, participants will learn about how a system-involved-youth’s developmental stage interacts with their processing of grief. Then, they will learn multiple activities that can be applied to helping system involved children process their grief and communicate their feelings.

Learning Objectives

● Participants will be able to identify and explain at least 2 different models of grief and how stage of development influences how system involved youth engage in the grief process.

● Participants will be able to identify and apply at least 2 different creative and artistic activities to help system involved youth process and articulate their feelings.