Strategies & Interventions for Working with At-Risk Clients and Families

6801 Press Drive,New Orleans LA 70126

23 March, 2023

Description

The Child Welfare System is complex and made of legal, ethical, evidenced based practice, workers, administrators, families and individuals as well as policy components. This continuing education session will focus on the experience of the workers, supervisors and clients/families considering macro to microsystems that come into play. Additionally, this course will train participants in utilizing psychoeducation as an evidence-based intervention that can be adapted to multiple settings and populations and focuses on building insight and connection through an exchange of professional and personal (i.e. patient/client) knowledge and experiences. Psychoeducation focuses on understanding and on coping skills, stress management, problem solving, growth, and self-advocacy with attention to structural and cultural context. Our goal is to recognize and understand contextual factors including identity, racism, culture, oppression, and resilience and discuss coping mechanisms to enhance service provision and work environments within the child welfare system and other systems and levels of care. Learning goals and objectives Identify key contextual factors that are assets and challenges of the child welfare system and other systems and levels of care. Identify critical organizational, cultural and environmental factors that influence care provision in the child welfare system and other systems and levels of care. Consider the meaning and significance of a range of culturally-based belief systems and coping mechanisms that influence trauma and post-traumatic growth for both the worker and client in various settings. Articulate assessments /strategies and interventions (specifically-psychoeducation) that might be used to work within the child welfare system and other systems and levels of care.