Training Playlists
Working with Families
These offerings describe best practices when working with families and are designed to provide clinicians with the skills they need to effectively engage and support families. This includes family treatment, engagement, and family driven care. Family driven care and family engagement supports families in making empowered decisions around the care in which they participate. Including families in treatment is a best practice for supporting youth and their healing.
Amplifying the Caregiver’s Voice - Strategies to Support Family Peer Advocates
September 17, 2024
Participants joined us for an engaging and interactive webinar designed to inspire and empower caregivers through the lens of Family Peer Advocacy. This session delved into the core principles of empowerment, emphasizing the importance of family-driven care and tools for building confidence in paren...
A Resource for Providers: Liberation Psychology with Youth and Families
July 16, 2024
We are pleased to announce the release of our new tool, A Resource for Providers: Liberation Psychology with Youth and Families.
Liberation psychology is the practice of addressing oppressive systems and understanding their impacts on the individual and community. Singh and Gudino (2022) synthesiz...
Supporting Families with Grief and Loss
June 28, 2024
Partnering with families who have experienced grief and loss can be very difficult. This workshop was designed to help Family Peer Advocates understand the stages and expressions of grief in children and families, and identify the different needs and responses to grief based on age, development, and...
Trauma-Responsive Telehealth for Children, Adolescents and Their Families
June 14, 2024
Providers utilizing telehealth can support those in care by incorporating approaches that help to increase and maintain participant engagement, especially for individuals with a trauma history. With a foundation in TIC principles, thorough assessment practices, phased intervention models, and creati...
What gets in the way? Barriers in Family Work in Under-Resourced Communities
March 28, 2024
Caregivers are a critical part of intervention in family work. Having a caregiver’s buy-in and participation can be the cornerstone of effective treatment with children and teens, but various barriers present a challenge in allowing that collaboration.
This webinar explores common roadblocks...
Trauma-Informed Approaches to Crisis and De-Escalation in Youth and Families
January 25, 2024
Youth and families can experience a crisis for a variety of reasons. Understanding how trauma impacts young people and their families can help us better prevent and respond to escalated situations. This 3-hour interactive workshop will help attendees better understand the connection between a young...
Narrative Therapy with Families
August 04, 2023
Narrative therapy is client-driven and a type of experiential therapy that helps to empower people by separating their identity from their experiences. It helps to remove blame and shame and as a result individuals are able to re-author their stories and re-establish their experiences in the here-an...
Supervision to Promote Family-Driven Practice
January 23, 2023
Family Driven Care (FDC) is a framework that assists with the understanding that families are the main decision-makers in their lives and determine the care in which they participate and receive. There are available resources for mental health clinicians to implement the principles and practices of...
Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth and Their Families
December 21, 2022
This 3-module course begins by providing a foundational understanding of the impact and importance of affirming the identities of LGBTQ+ youth. We then focus on supporting youth in the coming out process as they consider if, when, and how they come out to people in their life. Lastly, we focus on...
Creative Family Therapy Techniques
June 07, 2022
Children are often excluded from family therapy because many practitioners are at a loss of how to effectively engage them. The use of creative activities in family therapy such as games, art, and storytelling, facilitates the participation of all family members. Play and expressive arts technique...
Internal Family Systems Therapy: An Overview and Best Practices
March 23, 2022
Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) is an evidence-based, non-pathologizing psychotherapy treatment model. It is used to help with a range of mental health conditions including anxiety, depression, eating disorders, PTSD, and substance abuse. It can also be used to address concerns that frequently...
Family Alignment: The First 30 Days Checklist
June 23, 2021
A checklist intended to help providers ensure they are utilizing best clinical practices during initial evaluation sessions.
Review each statement on the checklist to see how well you are doing with each family. At the end, identify at least one area to improve upon and plan an action step for impr...
Partnering with Families to Enhance Family Driven Practice
February 23, 2021
This webinar will provide a brief overview of Family-Driven Care and focus on the relationship between an individual provider and a parent/caregiver with whom they are working. You can become more family-driven in your work by applying the principles of FDC in your direct practice. Two specific reso...
Learning the Basics of Family Engagement
June 30, 2020
Since the Adverse Childhood Events (ACEs) study was published in the late 1990s, demonstrating that an increase in ACEs leads to an increase in one’s risk of various health and social issues, it has become the corner stone of the Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) movement. There are plenty of videos, art...
Family Driven Care
September 30, 2019
Family Driven Care (FDC) is a framework that assists with the understanding that families are the main decision-makers within their lives and thus the care in which they are engaged. Parents and caregivers are the experts on their children and continual family involvement contributes to quality care...
Part II: How do you help an organization become more Family-Driven?
September 12, 2018
As a follow up to our last webinar, Family-Driven Care 101, this webinar will focus on supporting organizations to become more family-driven. The presenters will share the steps they took to ensure that their organization was family-driven. They will highlight specific principles of Family-Driven Ca...
Family Driven Care 101
August 08, 2018
This webinar explores the concept of Family-Driven Care (FDC), the idea that families should have a primary role in making decisions about the care their family receives. We discuss what FDC means and why it is important, understand how to help families in their role and responsibilities in a family...
Family Engagement in Adolescent Substance Use Disorder Services
July 31, 2018
Substance Use Disorder (SUD) in adolescents can have serious consequences for the young individual and their family. As a result, there are several SUD services available to clinicians. Seeking those services can be daunting and overwhelming for everyone in the family. However, with adequate atten...