Boundaries and Good Practice with Youth

Obtain a renewed and heightened awareness of boundary issues as it relates to work with youth in foster care. Having boundaries is not just a matter of being professional and avoiding allegations, it is a key ingredient in providing the children in our care with the highest quality of care. This often requires us to build trusting and healing relationships with them. The relationships we build with clients often have ambiguous boundaries; it is therefore important to develop awareness of possible danger signs for boundary issues that might result in poor practice or which might be red flags for potential exploitation of clients.

2 Group Home Adminstrator CEUs available.

Training Objectives:

To understand the dual nature of boundaries in work with youth; that is, that boundaries can be too loose and too permeable, but can also be too rigid and prevent engagement and relationship.

To understand the creation of organizational culture which is alert to boundary crossings/violations and in which staff in different positions in the agency hierarchy are able to safely raise concerns and questions and reduce ambiguity

To create a heightened awareness of having healthy boundaries not only for the benefit of clients, but also for staff

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