Crisis Intervention and Verbal De-escalation: How Best to Support System-Involved Youth

Sonja Lenz-Rashid, PhD, LCSW

Training Description

This training is to help support those who support system-involved youth in various capacities. This training will include content on how to identify and handle crisis situations with system involved youth who are psycho-socially and cognitively escalated and agitated. It is essential that all those who support system-involved youth know and understand how to de-escalate them quickly and effectively. Powerpoints, videos, challenging case vignettes, and small group sharing of scenarios will be used.

Learning Objective

1. Identify at least 2 different levels of crises which can arise within efforts to support system-involved youth and families.

2. Acquire at least 2 strategies for responses within various crises situations with system-involved youth.