Strategies to Support System-Involved Parents and/or Caregivers

Nola Brantley

Training Description

To effectively support system-involved youth it's necessary to involve their parents or careivers. 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 system involved youth parents and/or caregivers.

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

Agenda 

2:00pm-2:15pm  Welcome & Introductions

2:15pm-3:30pm  Barriers to engaging youths’ parents/caregivers

3:30pm-3:45pm  Break (CEUs will not be offered during this time)

3:45pm-4:45pm  Strategies to support youths’ parents/caregivers

4:45pm-5:00pm  Closing and 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 (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.