Description
In this training, participants will gain a basic understanding of trauma as well as the basic principles of Trauma Informed Care. We will discuss how trauma, including historical, intergenerational, and individual levels of trauma, plays a role for youth in becoming involved in gangs/gang activity. Participants will also explore ways to conceptualize and apply trauma informed care principles and interventions to this population while delivering supportive services, such as mental health or social services. While exploring ways to understand gang involvement through a trauma informed perspective, other important aspects related to gangs will also be reviewed, such as typical characteristics of gangs, the psychosocial and individual risk factors to becoming gang involved, motivation for joining gangs, and ways to build resiliency for youth that have become gang involved as well as their families.
Objectives
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Describe gang culture, including typical characteristics of gangs.
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List ways in which trauma plays a role for youth who become involved in gangs.
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Identify and describe how trauma informed interventions and strategies, that can be applied in service delivery, that support youth in becoming engaged in services as well as begin their healing journey to reducing trauma symptoms as well as high risk behaviors.
Certificate
By completing/passing this course, you will attain the certificate CAMFT
Learning Credits
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