Navigating Difficult Conversations with System Involved Youth About Social Injustices

Nola Kesia Brantley

Training Description

It is important to have discussions with foster and juvenile justice involved youth about social injustices that impact their families and their communities. In this training we will explore racism, structural racism, historical oppression and over-policing and its impact on foster and juvenile justice involved youth, their families and communities. The trainer will share strategies to navigate these difficult conversations.

Learning Objectives

· Participants will be able to discuss social injustices with foster and juvenile justice involved youth.

· Participants will be able to adapt their discussions about social injustice based on the youth’s developmental age.

· Participants will be able to actively listen to youth share their thoughts and emotions about recent social injustices.

Agenda 

9:30-9:45am  Trainer/Topic Introductions

9:45-10:15am  Getting Started: holding space/why do we avoid the conversation/growing up black

10:15-10:50am  Racism and Structural Racism

10:50-11:05am  Break (CEUs will not be offered for this time)

11:05am-11:30am  Racism and Structural Racism Continued

11:30am-12pm  Historical Oppression

12:00-12:30pm  The Talk

12:30-1:00pm  Lunch break (CEUs will not be offered for this time)

1:00-1:30pm  Police Violence and Over Policing

1:30-2pm  Mass Incarceration

2:00-2:30pm  Starting Conversations with Youth

2:30-2:45pm  What can we do?

2:45-3pm  Questions and Course Evaluations

Meet Our Trainers

Nola Brantley, CEO & Founder of Nola Brantley Speaks has become nationally recognized as a powerful Survivor voice for the issue of child sex trafficking through her moving and information packed public speaking. Her hard work and perpetual vigilance has brought both focus and concrete resources to this chronically underserved and largely unrecognized population of victimized youth. Nola’s approach aims to be holistic!

This course meets the qualifications for (4.75) 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.