Coaching Caregivers of System Involved Youth on What to Know About Illicit Drugs to Guide Their Children Towards Safety

Robert Dousa

Training Description

One of the most significant challenges for those supporting system involved youth is to effectively engage youth and families and help them build constructive, transformational behaviors that are sustainable and lead to healthy community engagement and improved outcomes for system involved youth. In this training we will explore how Coaching Caregivers on What They Need to Know About Illicit Drugs can prepare them and us to foster young people’s emotional development and wellbeing and strengthen their resilience and ability to heal from traumatic events and lead a meaningful life. Practicing and sharing the methods outlined by this workshop will allow us to improve the practice of how we empower system-involved youth and families.

Learning Objective

● Participants will be able to identify at least 2 “Drug Talk” Approaches that foster greater outcomes for system-involved youth.

● Participants will be able to identify at least 2 transformational…