Understanding How Poverty Impacts System Involved Youth

Nola Kesia Brantley & Withelma TiOra “T” Ortiz Walker Pettigrew

Training Description

Growing up in poverty can have lasting impacts on system-involved youth and their families so it’s essential for social service providers, caregivers, parents, and natural support people working with system-involved youth to understand how their socioeconomic upbringing impacts their ability to understand poverty and the challenges to get out of it. This is crucial for providers, caregivers, and natural support people to understand that many system-involved youth live in or near poverty, with some youth living in communities plagued by poverty. The trainers will discuss strategies for more effectively engaging individuals and families in poverty and ways to empower them.

Learning Objectives

· Participants will be able to explain how their socioeconomic upbringing impacts their efforts to support system-involved youth.

· Participants will be able to identify at least 1 way poverty can impact system-involved youth emotional health…