Strategies to Support Parents and/or Caregivers of System-Involved Youth

Nola Kesia Brantley

Training Description

To effectively support system-involved youth it's necessary to involve their parents or caregivers. However, many social service and behavioral health providers have struggled to work with their parents. In this training, you will learn common challenges to engaging parents and strategies to enhance engagement with them.

Learning Objectives

1. Participants will be able to identify at least 1 barrier to supporting parents or caregivers of system involved youth.

2. Participants will be able to identify at least 1 reason why it’s important to involve youth parents and/or caregivers of system involved youth.

3. Participants will be able to identify at least 1 strategy to engage parents and/or caregivers of system involved youth.

Agenda

1:30-1:45pm  Welcome & Introductions

1:45-3:00pm  Barriers to engaging parents/caregivers of system involved youth

3:00-3:15pm  Break (CE hours will not be offered during this time)

3:15-4:15pm  Strategies to support parents/caregivers of system involved youth

4:15-4:30pm  Closing and Wrap-up

Meet Our Trainer

Nola Kesia 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 (2.75) BBS CE hours 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.