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.