Strengthening Systems: Understanding Adaptive Tasks in Grief that Support System-Involved Youth

Jessica Porté

Training Description

Children and teens are naturally dependent on various systems, including family, schools, and communities, but it is important to build upon the strengths in those resources when youth are system-involved. Participants will examine the core components that promote healthy adaptation in youth, with a focus on understanding the adaptive tasks that bolster resiliency and lead to positive outcomes for system-involved youth. The training will emphasize the importance of recognizing and supporting these adaptive tasks within the context of grief, providing those who support system-involved youth with strategies to strengthen the systems that surround youth.

Learning Objectives

● Participants will be able to identify and explain four adaptive tasks to consider within efforts to support system-involved youth.

● Participants will be able to identify and explain the five domains that impact posttraumatic growth.

● Participants will be able to identify and integrate three techniques for working with youth and the systems that support them.

Agenda

10:00 - 10:10am  Introduction and Overview

10:10 - 10:45am  Adaptive Task in Grieving Children and Family Systems

● Partnering with Caregivers/Adults as Co-Facilitators

● Learn about the four adaptive task that impact positive outcomes in grieving children and systems

10:45 - 11:00am  Break out groups - Assessing Opportunities to Build

11:00 - 11:15am  BREAK (CE hours will not be offered for this time)

11:15 - 11:45am  A look at Posttraumatic Growth (PTG) and Considerations

● What does this look like in bereavement?

● Learn about the domains that foster PTG and strategies that support development

11:45am - 12pm  Facilitated Discussion, Questions & Answers + Wrap-up

Meet Our Trainer

Jessica Porté is a consultant and grief educator with over 13 years of experience in the nonprofit sector. As the founder of Wayfinder Family Co., she focuses on person-centered change management and adaptive leadership. Jessica has been a driving force in supporting children, families, and communities dealing with grief, substance use disorders, foster care, and impactful losses. Her expertise includes program development, leadership, change management, and crisis response. With a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Masters in Leadership, Jessica utilizes science-based strategies and human design thinking to equip individuals and communities with tools to navigate the multifaceted impacts of loss. She is certified in Psychological First Aid and a Lego® Serious Play® facilitator. Active in organizations such as the National Alliance for Children Grieving and the Coalition for Grieving Students, Jessica also volunteers for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

This course meets the qualifications for (1.75) 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.