Risk Assessment: Strategies for Responding and Supporting At-Risk Youth and Families

Sarah Solis, LCSW 

Training Description

This 6-hour training focuses on high risk client situations, such as suicidality, homicidality, grave disability, neglect, community violence, domestic violence, and general crisis escalation. Participants will review common physiological and cognitive responses to crises and how to mitigate these responses in order to effectively support clients.  Each crises type will include a categorization of mild, moderate, and severe risk, and corresponding protocols, or interventions. Attendees will practice the application of protocols in small groups and then process the experience as a larger group

Learning Objectives

• Attendees will identify 1 means of mitigating work-related dysregulation, increasing risk management ability.
• Attendees will demonstrate the ability to forecast risk before a crises occurs.
• Attendees will apply the Risk Management Assessment to 1 or more scenarios

Agenda

9:00 - 9:30 Introductions and review of day

9:30 - 10:00 Dysregulation

10:00 - 10:45   Pre-mortem planning/Risk Assessment

10:45 - 11:00 Break (CEUs will not be issued for this time)

11:00 - 11:30   Suicidality

11:30 - 12:00   Homicidality

12:00 - 12:30   Grave Disability

12:30 - 1:00    Lunch (CEUs will not be issued for this time)

1:00 - 1:30     Neglect

1:30 - 2:00     Family Violence

2:00 - 2:45     Community Violence

2:45 - 3:00     Break (CEUs will not be issued for this time)

3:00 - 3:30     Crisis De-escalation

3:30 - 3:45     Review

3:45 - 4:00     Evaluations     

This course meets the qualifications for (6) BBS CEUs for LCSWs and MFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences & is provided by Fred Finch Youth Center, CAMFT Provider #045295.