Understanding Values, Beliefs, & Practices About Healing Across Cultures to Improve Outcomes for System Involved Youth

Waynette Brock

Training Description

If you could start from scratch, how would you create services for “foster youth” or “system involved youth”? This interactive workshop will encourage participants to explore wellness values including those specific to different communities and cultures. It will then look at those values in comparison to how systems are providing services and see where values are aligned and in conflict. Finally, participants will take time to create action plans for well communities and systems. Training participants will explore these challenges through a social intelligence paradigm through which skills that can be learned. Participants will take away straightforward strategies to better interact with and support system involved youth as they learn and experience themselves in today’s world.

Learning Objective

· Participants will compare current healing practices and cultural wellness values.

· Participants will learn how to create goals along with system involved youth that reflect cultural needs of the youth.

· Participants will learn at least 3 strategies to cope with values in conflict.

Agenda 

12:00-12:15pm  Building a Safe Learning Environment - Group Activity: What values do we want to see in our systems that serve system involved youth and families? What values are healing? Are those congruent with current practices?

12:15-1:00pm  Small Group Activity: Creating well communities: From theory to action plans

1:00-2:30pm  Group Activity: What strategies work when we encounter values conflicts in our communities?

2:30-2:45pm  BREAK (CEUs will not be offered for this time)

2:45-3:45pm  Small Group Activity: How do we encourage a group to define its own purpose? What tools/steps lead to wellness collaboration? How do we lead with equality?

3:45-4:00pm  Summarize, Debrief, Evaluations, Close

Meet Our Trainers

Waynette Brock has lead peer teams focusing on high risk individuals and underserved populations such as those that are incarcerated, individuals seeking recovery from substance use disorder, and those with life threatening illnesses, as well as anyone who wants to make positive life changes. Waynette lives in Northern California and is the National Trainer for the Copeland Center for Wellness and Recovery.

This course meets the qualifications for (3.75) 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.