Understanding the Impacts of Intergenerational Trauma on System Involved Youth

Nola Kesia Brantley

Training Description

Working with foster and juvenile justice involved youth can be challenging given the generational patterns of trauma, poverty, incarceration, etc. So, it’s essential for providers to understand generational trauma and how to work with foster and juvenile justice involved youth from a generational perspective. Without this perspective, we can have unrealistic expectations for youth and their families and encounter barriers to engagement. Providers will learn strategies to support system involved youth with generational patterns of trauma within their families.

Learning Objectives

· Participants will be able to explain at least one way generational trauma can impacts system involved youth and families.

· Participants will be able to identify at least one reason a family member may not acknowledge a system involved youth’s trauma.

· Participants will be able to identify at least 2 unintended consequences when providers only serve the system involved youth and not the family as a whole.

Agenda

1:00-1:15pm Trainer and Topic Introductions

1:15-1:30pm How the Generations Before Us Impact Our Development

1:30-1:45pm Why Family Members May not Acknowledge Youth’s Trauma

1:45-2:00pm The Impact of Not Understanding Generational Trauma

2:00-2:15pm Intergenerational Patterns

2:15-2:30pm The Impact of Unresolved Trauma

2:30-2:45pm The Impact of Choosing Health/Health Vs Family

2:45-3:00pm Parents with Unresolved Trauma

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

3:15-3:30pm Health Disparities

3:30-3:45pm  Trauma and Epigenetic

3:45-4:00pm  Intergenerational Poverty/Incarceration

4:00-4:15pm  Resiliency

4:15-4:30pm What Can We Do

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 (3.25) 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.