Transition Planning & Independent Living Skills: Preparing System-Involved Youth for Independence and Adulthood
Tue, Oct 15
|Online Event
Nola Kesia Brantley & Gina Loring


Time & Location
Oct 15, 2024, 10:30 AM – 3:30 PM PDT
Online Event
About the Event
Nola Kesia Brantley & Gina Loring
Training Description
This training is designed to provide professionals working with system-involved youth with the knowledge and skills necessary to support system-involved youth during their transition to independence in adulthood. The training will focus on transition planning and developing essential independent living skills to empower youth to navigate the challenges of adulthood successfully. Participants will explore best practices in transition planning, learn about resources available to support youth in their journey towards independence, and engage in interactive activities to enhance their ability to guide system-involved youth towards self-sufficiency.
Learning Objectives
· Participants will be able to explain the importance of transition planning for system-involved youth and identify at least one way it can impact their successful transition to adulthood.
· Participants will be able to identify at least 2 key independent living skills necessary for system-involved youth to thrive independently in adulthood.
· Participants will acquire at least 2 effective strategies for supporting system-involved youth in developing essential life skills for independent living.
Agenda
10:30 - 10:45am Trainer and Topic Introductions
10:45 - 11:00am Understanding Transition Planning
11:00 - 11:15am Identifying Independent Living Skills
11:15 - 11:30am Break-Out Session: Skill Development Strategies
11:30 - 11:45am Resources for Transition Support
11:45am - 12:00pm Questions & Answers + Discussion of Concepts
12:00 - 12:30pm Lunch break (CE hours will not be offered for this time)
12:30 - 12:45pm Implementing Transition Plans
12:45 - 1:00pm Building Independent Life Skills
1:00 - 1:15pm Break-Sessions: Action Planning
1:15 - 1:30pm Evaluating Progress and Adjustments
1:30 - 1:45pm Interactive Activity: Peer Feedback
1:45 - 2:00pm Questions & Answers + Discussion
2:00 - 2:15pm Community Partnerships and Support
2:15 - 2:30pm Mentorship and Guidance
2:30 - 2:45pm Action Plans Presentation
2:45 - 3:00pm Action Plans Presentation Feedback
3:00 - 3:15pm Questions & Answers + Feedback
3:15 - 3:30pm Closing Remarks and Post-Training Discussions
Meet Our Trainer
Nola Brantley, CEO & Founder of Nola Brantley Speaks has become nationally recognized as a powerful Survivor voice for the issue of child sex trafficking through her moving and information packed public speaking. Her hard work and perpetual vigilance has brought both focus and concrete resources to this chronically underserved and largely unrecognized population of victimized youth. Nola’s approach aims to be holistic!
Of African American, Eastern European Jewish and Muscogee Creek Native American descent, Gina Loring is a poet, vocalist, scholar and teaching artist. She has served as the Poet-in-Residence at UC Berkeley Law School and is the current Poet Laureate of the African American Policy Forum. Through state department cultural programming, she facilitated writing workshops and performed in over ten countries, and toured nationwide with Norman Lear’s Declare Yourself project. With a BA from Spelman College, an MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles, and a Doctorate for which she studied at the University of Southern California and Clark Atlanta University, she teaches in the Los Angeles Community College district and has provided curriculum development and cultural event planning for various youth-centered organizations, including extensive work with incarcerated teens and youth transitioning out of trafficking. She was featured on Jane Fonda’s Fire Drill Fridays, Rosario Dawson’s The Assembly, two De La Soul albums, two seasons of HBO’s Def Poetry, and has been commissioned to write poems for Susan and David Rockefeller, Mickalene Thomas, Greenpeace, and Quincy Jones.
This course meets the qualifications for (4.5) 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.