Foundations for Youth Training

A few of our peer parents attended the Foundations for Youth training last week and loved it! By request, I have received the presentation and am posting it here.

Foundations for Youth Presentation

This is an overview of the training:

Outcome 1: Caregivers will understand the purpose of the Transition to Adult Living initiative and their motivations for working with youth at this critical period of their lives.
Outcome 2: Caregivers will possess an understanding of adolescent development, as well as their varying needs at differing ages, and how abuse, neglect, trauma, grief and loss impact their growth and behavior.
Outcome 3: Caregivers will be able to understand youth within the context of their varying cultural experiences and can implement strategies to help support their identities.
Outcome 4: Caregivers will understand how behavior—the underlying needs and motivation to sustain them—and demonstrate the skill to implement behavioral interventions.
Outcome 5: Caregivers will be able to implement structure, rules, behavioral expectations, and boundaries in the context of building and sustaining relationships with youth.
Outcome 6: Caregivers will be able to demonstrate engagement skills critical to developing meaningful relationships with youth. These skills must be solution-focused and strengths-based.
Outcome 7: Caregivers will be able to use assessment tools to assist with identifying the youth’s strengths and areas of need.
Outcome 8: Caregivers not only will understand the importance of planning to assist youth, but know ways to involve the youth in this process in a meaningful, productive way.
Outcome 9: Caregivers will understand the importance of using a team approach to aiding a youth’s transition into adulthood. Much of this understanding relies on involving youth in the process to empower them to make important decisions about their future.
Outcome 10: Caregivers will have a good understanding of the Transition to Adult Living Goals: 1) Positive Self-Esteem, 2) Building Enduring Relationships, 3) Attaining Safe and Affordable Housing, 4) How to Access Health and Mental Health Care, and 5) Education Attainment and Employment. Caregivers will possess the skills and knowledge of the resources available to youth as they exit foster care to help them integrate these goals in preparation for their transition into adult living.

**Did you attend the training? Did you watch the presentation from the link above? Let me know what you think!!