How to Foster the Caregiver/Child Relationships of System Involved Families Through Strategies for Healing Attachment

Robert Dousa

Training Description

Effectively engaging caregivers in becoming secure attachments for their children and guiding their children towards other peer/adult healthy attachments can help them to: be successful in relationships, academics, and career related activities; build networks of support; and avoid using drugs and compulsive behavior to self-medicate. In this training, we will explore how to enhance our capacity to support system involved youth (SIY) by exploring how caregivers can empower themselves and their children to identify and build relationships with people who can become secure attachments as a means to improve relationship outcomes that lead to their own community building. We will also explore situational leadership coaching points that can prepare us to foster caregiver ability to effectively influence their children’s transformational behaviors that are sustainable and lead to healthy community engagement, as well as strengthen their resilience and ability to heal from traumatic events. Practicing and sharing the methods outlined by this workshop will allow us to improve the practice of how we empower system-involved youth and families.

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

● Identify at least 2 components of a secure attachment style;

● Identify at least 2 techniques for teaching caregivers of youth who are system involved or at high risk for system involvement on how to foster a secure attachment; and

● Identify at least 2 coaching styles which can be utilized when supporting caregiver capacity for the development of secure attachment with youth under their care.

Agenda

10:00-10:05am  Sign-in and Introduction

10:05-10:15am  Explore components of a secure attachment style

10:15-10:30am  Learn how to teach caregivers of youth who are system involved or at high risk for system involvement to foster a secure attachment for their child which strengthens and enhances inner resilience and empowers the caregiver/child relationship.

10:30-10:45am  Practice & Roleplay with Colleagues: Teaching caregivers to foster secure attachment with youth

10:45-11:00am  Learn Situational Leadership Coaching styles that can be utilized in empowering the caregiver/child relationship.

11:00-11:15am  Practice & Roleplay with Colleagues: Situational Leadership Coaching styles that can be utilized to emppwer the caregiver/child relationship.

11:15-11:30am  Learn how to coach the development of secure attachment identifications in self and others to foster long term relationship, academics, and career related successes for youth who are system involved or at high risk for system involvement

11:30-11:45am  Practice & Roleplay with Colleagues: Coaching the development of secure attachment identifications in self and others

11:45am-12:00pm  Question & Answer + Wrap Up

Meet Our Trainer

Mr. Robert Dousa is the founding Managing General Partner of Independent Strengths Building Consulting. This business includes: Individual Anger Management & Addictive Behavior Recovery Coaching, Conducting training of: Situational Leadership/Strengths-Based Life Skills Coaching, Brief Intervention & Motivational Interviewing, Drug, Anger Management, & Family interventions, Neuroscience-Based Leadership & Rapport Building, & Organizational Prevention Strategy Consultation, & Mandated Reporter Training for CA. Mr. Robert Dousa's has retired from the Marin County Office of Education Safe Schools Department and is now providing individual life coaching, intervention coach training, and consulting to those supporting system involved youth. Prior to retirement, he developed the majority of his practice from his work as the Program Manager for the Oakland Unified School District’s Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drugs Intervention program from 2005 to 2021. Prior to that, he served as a substance abuse counselor in school districts in Alameda County, CA from 2000 to 2005.

This course meets the qualifications for (2.0) 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.