Integrating Adolescent Brain Development with Young People with Foster Care Experience
Start Date: Friday, May 31st End Date: Friday, July 12th *Skipping Friday 7/5 Meets weekly on Fridays at 10am-12pm ET $350 per person
Time & Location
May 31, 2024, 10:00 AM EDT – Jul 12, 2024, 10:00 AM EDT
Zoom
Guests
About the event
Description
Trainees will learn seven core competencies that will help them understand and integrate emerging science about the adolescent brain into their work with youth. Participants will learn how experiences in the Foster Care System itself can contribute to negative outcomes for youth and how positive experience can rewire the brain to heal from trauma. Participants will also learn the importance of giving youth voice and choice because the skills that are not used brain science tells us that it is lost.
Format
This course is an online training that consists of 6 sessions that are 2hrs each for a total of 12 hours. This typically happens over the course of 6 weeks (meeting once a week on Friday) during traditional work hours. However, there are times we have trainings where we shorten the amount of weeks by meeting more than once.
Trainees are expected to be present for at…