Transitional Age Youth - Thinking Differently about Transitional Age Youth and “Independence”

Pamela Parkinson, Ph.D., LCSW

Training Description

This training will allow us to look at some additional ways to include the extended family and other “natural” support systems in the lives of our Transition Age Youth (TAY) as they make this very difficult transition.  This is the single largest developmental transition that we make as we launch into adulthood and we need all the support that we can get!  For kids with poor attachments and deep traumatic attachment ruptures, many will not make this transition successfully unless we can help them with this healing.

Learning Objectives

• Review the history and basics of what is meant by TAY and why we have developed programs focused on this group.

• Learn the TAY Challenges and how we are doing in our service delivery to this population.