Fred Finch Youth Center Training Calendar March 2016

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1 March 02, :00 AM - 12:00 PM Creative Art Approaches to Trauma Treatment -- Training Center Trainer: Eleanor Ruckman Healing from trauma is not possible through exclusively verbal interventions. This training provides a framework for building resources to allow for safe exploration of traumatic experiences, using art experientials and case examples, supported by current research in neurobiology, trauma and art therapy. We'll practice and discuss somatic awareness and mindfulness skills, and how these approaches can be integrated with creative arts interventions. Eleanor Ruckman is a registered art therapist and has been licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist since She is passionate about the power of the creative process to transform and heal. Ruckman has a private practice in Oakland, and offers art therapy groups as well as outdoor eco art therapy workshops. She has years of experience providing community based therapy, clinical supervision and program direction, training and consultation. This course meets the qualifications for three (3) BBS CEUs for LPCCs, LCSWs and MFTs as March 04, 2016 Friday 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM Aging and Long Term Care, Part II -- Training Center Trainer: Natalie Thoreson To bring about opportunities for success for those living in the child welfare system, young people and adults need to work together as partners. Both youth and adults have much to offer in this partnership. One of the greatest challenges to success in sustaining effective youth/adult partnerships is the impact of ageism and adultism on our interactions with one another. During this interactive training, participants will explore the impacts of institutional, individual, and societal ageism as it relates to the overall wellbeing and success of youth in care. We will outline best practices to support long term success for clients, and consider practices for positive community transformation through individual, cultural, and institutional means. Through experiential exercises, large and small group dialogue, lecture, and personal reflection, attendees will work to unearth unconscious attitudes and behaviors, and challenge how these ideas influence our connections with the young people we support. Attendees will also develop a working understanding of oppression theory and fundamental concepts needed to discuss and challenge systems of ageism and adultism that negatively impact the experiences of the youth

2 March 04, 2016 Continued Friday whom we serve. Natalie J. Thoreson, M.Ed.: A founder and Sr. Consultant at invision Consulting, Natalie has designed and facilitated social justice, anti oppression and liberation training for educators, youth, social workers and community activists for over a decade. Natalie s passion, talent, and uncanny ability to shape a safe, creative and productive learning environment are evident in her design and facilitation of workshops on oppression, interdependent communities, and supporting inclusive spaces. Natalie's workshops on cultural humility have become an incredibly valuable component of trainings for staff and volunteers at dozens of agencies throughout the state. Natalie challenges participants to think critically about their own backgrounds and biases, and dissects concepts like the culture of oppression, prejudice, and stereotypes in a way that's accessible and just "clicks" for people. Around a topic that can often leave participants feeling raw and wounded, she instead consistently creates an environment of trust, humor, and fun that inspires and receives rave reviews from our groups. This training counts as credit for the BBS requirement of training in Aging and Long Term Care for 5 hours. This course meets the qualifications for five (5) BBS CEUs for LPCCs, LCSWs and MFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences & is provided by Fred Finch Youth Center, Provider # March 08, 2016 Tuesday 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Working with Youth with Co-Occurring Disorders -- Training Center Trainer: Jennifer Baity Youth with Co Occurring Disorders Many youth with mental health disorders also have cooccurring substance related disorders (COD). Across a range of studies 54 to 95 percent of youth in alcohol and drug treatment also have conduct or oppositional defiant disorder; mood disorders are evident in approximately half of these teens and 15 to 42 percent exhibit anxiety disorders (e.g., post traumatic stress disorder; social phobia). Dr. Ken Minkoff states that co morbidity is so common that dual diagnosis should be expected rather than considered an exception." Do YOU know how to best treat drug and alcohol problems in your COD clients? Would you like to know how? This training will prepare you to:1) Identify which of your clients with mental health diagnoses are most at risk of substance related problems 2) Recognize what kinds of engagement strategies work best with COD youth and 3) Identify which evidence based treatments are recommended for COD youth Jennifer Baity, LCSW, LAADC is a licensed clinical social worker and licensed advanced alcohol and drug counselor, and currently works as the Program Director at the Mental Health Rehabilitation Center at San Francisco General Hospital. She provides individual, group, and family treatment for

3 March 08, 2016 Continued Tuesday adults with serious and persistent mental illness who also have problematic substance use histories; provides staff and intern supervision and training; and co developed the co occurring disorders (dual diagnosis) program at the San Francisco Behavioral Health Center. She has provided in depth training to clinicians providing services to youth and adults since 1991 and regularly trains staff in mental health and substance abuse programs throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. She specializes in training on diagnosis and treatment of individuals with co occurring mental health and substance use conditions and motivational interviewing. Approved by the CDSS for three (3) hours of continuing education units for Group Home Administrator Recertification, Course # This course meets the qualifications for three (3) BBS CEUs for LPCCs, LCSWs and MFTs as March 09, :00 AM - 5:00 PM Family Violence, Part I -- Training Center Trainer: Isabel S. Perez Yanez This training will provide participants with an overview of one of society s most challenging and unspoken issues: family violence. The workshop will primarily focus on five content areas to expand our understanding of violence across the lifespan, within families and communities. (1) Background, incidence and prevalence of family violence, (2) Personal and social consequences of family violence, (3) Family violence research, legislation and policies (4) Interdisciplinary perspectives on family violence, and (5) Interventions designed to prevent and ameliorate family violence through work with both victims and perpetrators. Particular attention will be given to groups that have been disproportionately affected by family violence, namely women and children. Additionally, participants will also be exposed to the emerging knowledge base related to violence in gay and lesbian families, military families, and communities of faith, immigrant and refugee populations, and other special populations. This is a great training for those needing to fulfill the Spousal/Partner Abuse requirement for licensure. Isabel S. Perez Yanez, MPH, CHES is a consultant and statewide trainer with over 20 years of direct and administrative experience in public health, education, and social services. She has worked in the areas of violence (gang and domestic), prevention and intervention, diverse populations, adolescent issues, perinatal health, substance abuse and diverse family issues. She has taught in the Masters of Social Work Program at California State University East Bay (CSUEB), and at the College of San Mateo, in the Alcohol and Other Drug Certificate Program. Her specialty has been teaching about the complex issues related to substance abuse and being culturally responsive in working with diverse populations. She has conducted statewide trainings for UC Davis, State Corrections, and ONTRACK Program Resources, Culturally & Linguistically Appropriate

4 March 09, 2016 Continued Services (CLAS) Program. As a consultant she conducts technical assistance to counties and programs on being more culturally responsive in services. This training counts as credit for the BBS requirement of training in Spousal/Partner Abuse for 7.5 hours. This course meets the qualifications for seven and a half (7.5) BBS CEUs for LCSWs and MFTs as March 14, 2016 Monday 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM Human Sexuality, Part I -- Training Center Trainer: Natalie Thoreson To bring about opportunities for success for those living in the child welfare system, young people and adults need to work together as partners. Both youth and adults have much to offer in this partnership. One of the greatest challenges to success in sustaining effective youth/adult partnerships is the impact of ageism and adultism on our interactions with one another. During this interactive training, participants will explore the impacts of institutional, individual, and societal ageism as it relates to the overall wellbeing and success of youth in care. We will outline best practices to support long term success for clients, and consider practices for positive community transformation through individual, cultural, and institutional means. Through experiential exercises, large and small group dialogue, lecture, and personal reflection, attendees will work to unearth unconscious attitudes and behaviors, and challenge how these ideas influence our connections with the young people we support. Attendees will also develop a working understanding of oppression theory and fundamental concepts needed to discuss and challenge systems of ageism and adultism that negatively impact the experiences of the youth whom we serve. Natalie J. Thoreson, M.Ed.: A founder and Sr. Consultant at invision Consulting, Natalie has designed and facilitated social justice, anti oppression and liberation training for educators, youth, social workers and community activists for over a decade. Natalie s passion, talent, and uncanny ability to shape a safe, creative and productive learning environment are evident in her design and facilitation of workshops on oppression, interdependent communities, and supporting inclusive spaces. Natalie's workshops on cultural humility have become an incredibly valuable component of trainings for staff and volunteers at dozens of agencies throughout the state. Natalie challenges participants to think critically about their own backgrounds and biases, and dissects concepts like the culture of oppression, prejudice, and stereotypes in a way that's accessible and just "clicks" for people. Around a topic that can often leave participants feeling raw and wounded, she instead consistently creates an environment of trust, humor, and fun that inspires and receives rave reviews from our groups.

5 March 14, 2016 Continued Monday This training counts as credit for the BBS requirement of training in Aging and Long Term Care for 5 hours. This course meets the qualifications for five (5) BBS CEUs for LPCCs, LCSWs and MFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences & is provided by Fred Finch Youth Center, Provider # March 15, 2016 Tuesday 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM Family Engagement: Important Things to know about Partnering with Multi-Stressed Families in this Challenging Work -- Training Center Trainer: Pamela Parkinson For years we have been told to be strength based and client centered, however, we have not typically been told what this means in terms of what we should be doing differently with our clients. In our field, we often focus on the negative events that have occurred or the pathology that a client and their family members seem to present with. We forget, in the midst of all of the difficulties, that everyone has strengths and abilities and good intentions. This training focuses on the importance of teaming with family members from the beginning of treatment to build an alliance and the importance of this alliance to engaging with families and sustaining this critical relationship. We will also clarify what it means in terms of our work to be strength based and some of the basic ways of structuring our work to be inviting to families. Meet our Trainer: Pamela Parkinson, PhD, LCSW, is a clinical psychologist and clinical social worker, whose specialty area is working with youth and their families. She is a certified PCOMS Trainer and the director of the Bay Area Family Institute of Training (BaFIT), developing and offering trainings for, and consulting with, child and family CBO's throughout the Bay Area. Pamela has worked in level 14 residential, NPS, hospitals, and a variety of community based settings including outpatient clinics, schools, diversion, kinship, etc. Dr. Parkinson was trained as a family therapist behind the one way mirror in the 1980's in Atlanta, Georgia, Los Angeles, CA, and Palo Alto, CA. She has been providing Intensive One Way Mirror Family Training in the S.F. Bay Area each year since 1990, when she was trained as a "live" supervisor to use this method of training. This course meets the qualifications for five and a half (5.5) BBS CEUs for LPCCs, LCSWs and MFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences & is provided by Fred Finch Youth

6 March 16, :00 AM - 4:00 PM Supporting LGBTQ Youth and Families in Youth Services, Child Welfare, and Juvenile Justice -- Joaquin Miller Trainer: Paul Gibson Location: Joaquin Miller Community Center 3594 San Born Drive Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth and young adults face extensive challenges in developing a positive identity, gaining acceptance and support, and making a successful transition to adulthood. Explore an overview of LGBTQ sexual identify development, the coming out process, involvement in the child welfare system, LGBTQ youth of color and transgender youth. Discuss psychosocial risk factors including family rejection, school safety, peer bullying and isolation, depression, suicide, and HIV. Participate in discussions and activities including videos of LGBTQ youth in out of home care. Review individual and family counseling approaches and residential care best practice guidelines for working effectively with LGBTQ youth and young adults. Discuss how to support LGBTQ youth in improving outcomes and making a successful transition to adulthood. We can make a positive difference in the lives of LGBTQ youth and young adults. By the end of this class participants will be able: To describe the development of an LGBTQ identity, the coming out process, their involvement in the child welfare system, issues for LGBTQ youth of color and issues for transgender youth. To identify risk factors for LGBTQ youth and young adults including family rejection, peer bullying and isolation, school safety, depression and suicide, and HIV. To demonstrate knowledge of individual and family counseling approaches and residential care best practice guidelines for working effectively with LGBTQ youth. To describe ways to support LGBTQ youth in making a successful transition to adulthood. Paul Gibson, LCSW is a therapist and program consultant with 34 years of experience working with culturally diverse youth and families in residential, mental health, and public health settings. He has been a licensed therapist for 27 years and has provided extensive training for youth and family service providers on topics that include Legal and Ethical Issues and Self Awareness and Care. He currently has a private practice in San Francisco and provides individual and group clinical supervision to mental health professionals and child welfare workers seeking licensure. This course meets the qualifications for six (6) BBS CEUs for LPCCs, LCSWs and MFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences & is provided by Fred Finch Youth Center, Provider # March 22, 2016 Tuesday 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Helping Youth and Families through a Culturally Inclusive Lens -- Training Center Trainer: Taquelia Washington

7 March 22, 2016 Continued Tuesday This training will offer advanced practical information to help participants better provide culturally inclusive, diversity informed work to youth and their families. Its focus is particularly on how to engage in the kind of rich breadth of culturally open, courageously curious dialogues necessary to go deeper in the therapeutic process. All stages of therapeutic work will be covered from conceptualization to termination. This will be an interactive training. Participants should expect to leave with a rich working model and tools for integrating diversity informed practice into the flow of the everyday work of supporting the best outcomes for the youth that they serve. Taquelia Washington has over 9 years of experience working as a School Social Worker. She holds a license in Clinical Social Work (LCSW) as well as a Pupil Personnel Services Credential (PPSC). Her passion is working with at risk and "hard to reach" adolescents. In addition to her direct practice work with her clients, Ms. Washington also provides supervision to graduate level interns and facilitates workshops throughout California geared toward those in the mental health field. She has also taught as adjunct faculty at several universities across the Bay Area. Taquelia Washington is an engaging and dynamic speaker who brings all of herself to her individual work with youth as well as her teaching endeavors. This course meets the qualifications for six (6) BBS CEUs for LPCCs, LCSWs and MFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences & is provided by Fred Finch Youth Center, Provider # March 23, :30 AM - 3:30 PM Human Sexuality, Part II -- Training Center Trainer: Natalie Thoreson To bring about opportunities for success for those living in the child welfare system, young people and adults need to work together as partners. Both youth and adults have much to offer in this partnership. One of the greatest challenges to success in sustaining effective youth/adult partnerships is the impact of ageism and adultism on our interactions with one another. During this interactive training, participants will explore the impacts of institutional, individual, and societal ageism as it relates to the overall wellbeing and success of youth in care. We will outline best practices to support long term success for clients, and consider practices for positive community transformation through individual, cultural, and institutional means. Through experiential exercises, large and small group dialogue, lecture, and personal reflection, attendees will work to unearth unconscious attitudes and behaviors, and challenge how these ideas influence our connections with the young people we support. Attendees will also develop a working understanding of oppression theory and fundamental concepts needed to discuss and challenge systems of ageism and adultism that negatively impact the experiences of the youth whom we serve.

8 March 23, 2016 Continued Natalie J. Thoreson, M.Ed.: A founder and Sr. Consultant at invision Consulting, Natalie has designed and facilitated social justice, anti oppression and liberation training for educators, youth, social workers and community activists for over a decade. Natalie s passion, talent, and uncanny ability to shape a safe, creative and productive learning environment are evident in her design and facilitation of workshops on oppression, interdependent communities, and supporting inclusive spaces. Natalie's workshops on cultural humility have become an incredibly valuable component of trainings for staff and volunteers at dozens of agencies throughout the state. Natalie challenges participants to think critically about their own backgrounds and biases, and dissects concepts like the culture of oppression, prejudice, and stereotypes in a way that's accessible and just "clicks" for people. Around a topic that can often leave participants feeling raw and wounded, she instead consistently creates an environment of trust, humor, and fun that inspires and receives rave reviews from our groups. This training counts as credit for the BBS requirement of training in Aging and Long Term Care for 5 hours. This course meets the qualifications for five (5) BBS CEUs for LPCCs, LCSWs and MFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences & is provided by Fred Finch Youth Center, Provider # March 24, 2016 Thursday 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Communication Skills for Connection -- Training Center Trainer: Eleanor Ruckman Interactive exercises and art activities to learn and practice skills related to reflective listening and non violent communication. We will review current research about talking and listening, and experience how mindful awareness can increase our capacity to communicate clearly. Effective communication is essential to positive relationships in any setting; we'll consider ways to apply these strategies in individual, family, group and community work. Eleanor Ruckman is a registered art therapist and has been licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist since She is passionate about the power of the creative process to transform and heal. Ruckman has a private practice in Oakland, and offers art therapy groups as well as outdoor eco art therapy workshops. She has years of experience providing community based therapy, clinical supervision and program direction, training and consultation. This course meets the qualifications for three (3) BBS CEUs for LPCCs, LCSWs and MFTs as

9 March 30, :00 AM - 4:00 PM Helping Youth Manage Anger and Agression -- Training Center Trainer: Paul Gibson Many youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems experience anger and aggression related to prior abuse or neglect and exposure to violence. This course provides participants with an overview of how to work effectively with youth on anger and aggression issues. Background information on these youth is presented to understand how anger develops including the impact of trauma and loss, learned behavior, poor coping skills, mental health and substance use issues. Anger as a symptom of depression will also be discussed. The behavior change process and how to initiate behavior change with youth is reviewed. How to help youth evaluate anger and aggression and counseling messages about anger will be provided. The course provides specific cognitive and behavioral approaches for working with youth on anger and aggression. Techniques reviewed including monitoring anger, identifying triggers, changing negative behavior patterns, revising negative beliefs, anger reducers, self talk to reduce anger, thinking errors, assertive communication, relaxation techniques, and thinking ahead to consequences. Self regulation anger management skills will be discussed including physical, emotional, and cognitive techniques. Guidelines for teaching youth social skills that support them in managing their anger will also be reviewed. A behavior change plan to help youth manage anger and aggression will be provided. Objectives 1. To understand the backgrounds of child welfare and juvenile justice youth and how anger and aggression develops. 2. To review the behavior change process with youth including how to evaluate and initiate change in managing anger and aggression. 3. To increase skills for providing cognitive and behavioral approaches for working with youth to reduce anger and aggression. 4. To provide self regulation activities for youth to manage anger including physical, emotional, and cognitive techniques. 5. To provide guidelines for teaching youth social skills to support them in managing anger. Paul Gibson, LCSW is a therapist and program consultant with 34 years of experience working with culturally diverse youth and families in residential, mental health, and public health settings. He has been a licensed therapist for 27 years and has provided extensive training for youth and family service providers on topics that include Legal and Ethical Issues and Self Awareness and Care. He currently has a private practice in San Francisco and provides individual and group clinical supervision to mental health professionals and child welfare workers seeking licensure. This course meets the qualifications for four (4) BBS CEUs for LPCCs, LCSWs and MFTs as

10 March 31, 2016 Thursday 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Working with Latino Families -- Training Center Trainer: Isabel S. Perez Yanez This workshop will provide an overview on understanding the cultural context of experiences and the spectrum of diverse Latinos and families today. As diverse Latino populations have increased in size in the United States, service provisions from all disciplines need to integrate culturally responsive services that will increase recruitment and retention of Latino families. Discussion will cover the significance of understanding the experiences of historical to contemporary oppression, racism, discrimination and the negative effects on mental and physical health problems. Attention will be on family dynamics, parenting, and cultural values that are important when working with Latinos. Discussion will include age, and gender roles from more traditional Latinos to more assimilated Latinos. Emphasis will focus on understanding the spectrum of diverse Latino experiences in order to avoid stereotyping clients. Exploration of personal biases and ways they manifest unknowingly in service provision will be reviewed. Discussion will include strategies and tools that support cultural responsiveness in assessment, evaluation and treatment. Finally, recommendations will be made on the use of evidence based models and integration of culturally responsive approaches to better serve and improve retention of Latino clients and families. Isabel S. Perez Yanez, MPH, CHES is a consultant and statewide trainer with over 20 years of direct and administrative experience in public health, education, and social services. She has worked in the areas of violence (gang and domestic), prevention and intervention, diverse populations, adolescent issues, perinatal health, substance abuse and diverse family issues. She has taught in the Masters of Social Work Program at California State University East Bay (CSUEB), and at the College of San Mateo, in the Alcohol and Other Drug Certificate Program. Her specialty has been teaching about the complex issues related to substance abuse and being culturally responsive in working with diverse populations. She has conducted statewide trainings for UC Davis, State Corrections, and ONTRACK Program Resources, Culturally & Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) Program. As a consultant she conducts technical assistance to counties and programs on being more culturally responsive in services. This course meets the qualifications for four (4) BBS CEUs for LPCCs, LCSWs and MFTs as