The Impact of Poverty

Nola Brantley

Training Description

Growing up in poverty can have lasting impacts on system-involved youth and their families so it’s essential for social service providers, caregivers, parents, and natural support people working with system-involved youth to understand how their socioeconomic upbringing impacts their ability to understand poverty and the challenges to get out of it. The trainers will discuss strategies for more effectively engaging individuals and families in poverty and ways to empower them. This is crucial for providers, caregivers, and natural support people to learn as many system-involved youth live in or near poverty, with some youth living in communities plagued by poverty.

Learning Objectives

· Participants will be able to discuss how their socioeconomic upbringing impacts their efforts to support system-involved youth

· Participants will be able to describe how poverty impacts system-involved youth’s emotional heath

· Participants will be able to describe how poverty can impact youth’s physical performance

· Participants will be able to identify at least 1 strategy to support system-involved youth in poverty

Agenda 

9:00am-9:15am  Welcome and introduction

9:15am-10:30am  Self-reflection of socioeconomic upbringing

10:30am-10:45am  Break (CEUs are not offered during this time)

10:45am-12:00pm  Poverty overview

12:00pm-1:00pm  Lunch (CEUs are not offered during this time)

1:00pm-2:30pm  Poverty overview (continued)

2:30pm-2:45pm  Break (CEUs are not offered during this time)

2:45pm-3:45pm  Poverty’s impact and engagement strategies

3:45pm-4:00pm  Questions & Answers 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 (5.5) 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.