Strategies to Talk with System-Involved Youth About Dating, Boundaries and Sex

Nola Kesia Brantley

Training Description

It’s important social service providers, foster parents, guardians, and natural supports have ongoing dialogue with system-involved youth about dating, boundaries, and sex. Without these conversations, system-involved youth are left to navigate these topics on their own or with their peers. This training will equip you to have these crucial conversations which can improve outcomes for system involved youth.

Learning Objective

· Participants will be able to distinguish between healthy boundaries and unhealthy boundaries with system-involved youth.

· Participants will be able to identify 4 strategies for carrying-out conversations with system-involved youth about dating, sex and boundaries.

· Participants will be able to identify 3 different types of boundaries.

Agenda

12:30-12:45pm  Welcome and Introductions

12:45-2:30pm  Boundaries, sex and dating overview 

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

2:45-4:00pm  Vignettes

4:00-4:15pm  Internet and social media safety strategies for supporting system involved youth

4:15-4:30pm  Questions & Answers, Closing

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 (3.75) 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.