Helping Youth with Birth Family Connections

Explore ways in which group home staff can partner with birth families to achieve improved outcomes for youth in foster care. Learn to understand common problems associated with birth family involvement and discuss strategies for dealing with negative feelings about birth families. Discuss why it is important that foster children maintain connections with birth families and learn techniques for strengthening these relationships. Focus on the importance of understanding birth family dynamics, patterns, and experiences when helping youth deal with emotional or behavioral challenges. Examine approaches to helping youth in foster care deal with the complicated feelings surrounding birth families and techniques for structuring safe, healthy visitations. 

2 Group Home Adminstrator CEUs available.

Instructors:
Lea Arellano, Kevin Conboy, Alfred Gales, Paul Gibson, Sandra Madison, Diana Middleton, Anquenette Robinson, Natalie Thoreson, Gary Zomalt