Engaging System-Involved Youth with Effective Rapport Building & Advanced Motivational Interviewing Techniques

Robert Dousa

Training Description

One of the most significant challenges for those supporting system-involved youth is to effectively engage youth and families and help them build constructive, transformational behaviors that are sustainable and lead to healthy community engagement and improved outcomes for system involved youth. In this training, participants will learn how to enhance our capacity to support the caregivers of system-involved youth by exploring how to use motivational interviewing (MI) techniques during the early phases of engagement and redirect their energy towards theirs and their children’s emotional development and wellbeing, as well as foster their resilience to be able to heal from traumatic events. Practicing and sharing the methods outlined by this workshop will allow us to deepen our effectiveness with system-involved youth and their families while supporting them towards healthier lifestyles.

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

● Identify at least 2 strategies that foster engagement &…