Category: Child and Adolescent, Child Abuse and Neglect Category: Child and Adolescent, Child Abuse and Neglect (show less)

This webinar focuses on how understanding the continued development of the brain during adolescence can be applied to child welfare practice with older youth. Drawing from research and the new NASW curriculum, Integrating Adolescent Brain Development into Child Welfare Practice with Older Youth, developed with support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, participants will learn how brain development influences thinking and behavior; understand the link between early life trauma and the opportunity that adolescent brain development provides for healing; recognize how positive youth development principles can enhance outcomes for older youth; and recognize the value of using a strengths-based approach in authentically partnering with adolescents. Considerations will include socio-cultural assumptions, and how practitioners’ implicit biases impact working with young people.