Values, Beliefs, & Practices About Emotional Health And Healing For Youth Across Cultures

Training Description

If you could start from scratch, how would you create youth and family services? This interactive workshop will encourage participants to explore wellness values including those specific to different communities and cultures. It will then look at those values in comparison to how systems are providing services and see where values are aligned and in conflict. Provide information that could enhance the capabilities of agencies that provide services to  youth and families including; prepare youth for reintegration into communities and assist individuals and communities by delivering inclusive community-based options and other broad-based services.

Learning Objectives

• Compare current practices in youth services with wellness values
• Construct action plans that support emotional balance and  healing for  youth across different communities/cultures
• List at least 3 strategies to cope with values in conflict across cultures

Agenda

9:00 - 9:30  Welcome, Housekeeping, Agenda Review

9:30 - 10:30  Building a Safe Learning Environment - Compare current practices in youth services with wellness values; Group Activity: What values do we want to see in our  system? What values are healing?    Are those congruent with current practices?

10:30 -10:45  BREAK (CEUs will not be issued for this time)

10:45 - 12:00 Small Group Activity: Creating emotionally well communities: From theory to action plans

12:00 -1:00 LUNCH (CEUs will not be issued for this time)

1:00 - 2:30 Action Planning to support emotional balance and  healing for  youth across different communities/cultures; Small Group Activity: How do we encourage youth  to define their own purpose? What tools/steps lead to wellness and healing?                    

2:30 - 2:45 BREAK (CEUs will not be issued for this time)

2:45 - 4:00  Strategies for when we encounter values conflicts; How do we lead with equality?

4:00 - 4:30 Debrief, Written Evaluation, Close

This course meets the qualifications for (6) BBS CEUs for LCSWs and MFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences & is provided by Fred Finch Youth Center, CAMFT Provider #045295.

Location: Fred Finch Youth Center - Training Center | 3800 Coolidge Ave. Oakland, CA 94602 

**Please note that we provide trainings to Alameda County providers, so providers from other counties may be put on a waitlist until there are enough Alameda County participants.**