Being Strength-Based with System Involved Youth: Avoiding the Labeling Trap!

Pamela Parkinson, Ph.D., LCSW

Training Description

Strength-based, strength-based, strength-based! Wow, this seems to be an important mantra in our field! Since all of us , I hope that anyone supporting system involved youth and their families will attend! This training is about how we can remain when we have to use pathologizing/stigmatizing labels. While I hope that we are all advocating (in our own ways) for important changes that will allow us to be more strength-based and individualized, what do we do NOW to make sure that these negative labels (foster care, juvenile justice and mental health systems)?understand our youth in our own waysstrength-baseddon’t follow our youth in the system of care

This training is meant to help us see the and how we can provide services for them without using negative labels! If we can get better at this, it will be a win-win for system involved youth an…