Mindfulness Skills for System-Involved Youth and Transitional Age Youth

Nicole Klasey, Psy.D. 

Training Description

Many system-involved youth struggle to regulate their emotions and can dwell on self-defeating thoughts. Mindfulness is not only a helpful skill for social service providers, foster parents, guardians, and natural support people to practice in order to be present and engaged with system involved youth, but it is also a great skill to teach system-involved youth to practice themselves, so they don’t get lost in their thoughts and emotions. Mindfulness helps teach system-involved youth that it’s possible to not dwell on negative thoughts and emotions.

Learning Objectives

1. Participants will learn how to describe the benefits of mindfulness

2. Participants will learn how to teach system-involved youth about mindfulness

3. Participants will be able to practice mindfulness skills in preparation for modeling these practices for system involved youth.

Agenda 

1:00pm-1:15pm  Welcome & Introductions

1:15am-2:30pm  Mindfulness overview

2:30pm-2:45pm  Break (CEUs will not be offered for this time)

2:45pm-3:45pm  Practicing mindfulness with system-involved youth

3:45pm-4:00pm  Closing and evals

Meet Our Trainers

Nicole Klasey is a clinical psychologist who has worked with trauma survivors for 14 years. She currently consults with agencies on trauma-informed care, programming for commercially sexually exploited youth, vicarious trauma, and leadership development. Nicole has been training multidisciplinary audiences on trauma-related topics since 2015 and provides guest lectures at local universities on human trafficking.

This course meets the qualifications for (2.75) BBS CEUs 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.