Generational Trauma

Nicole Klasey, Psy.D. & Nola Brantley

Training Description

Working with system involved youth can be challenging given the generational patterns of trauma, poverty, incarceration, etc. So, it’s essential for providers to understand generational trauma and how to work with system involved youth from a generational perspective. Without this perspective, we can have unrealistic expectations for youth and their families and encounter barriers to engagement. Providers will learn strategies to support youth with generational patterns of trauma within their families.

Learning Objectives

· Participants will learn to define generational trauma.

· Participants will learn at least one reason a family member may not acknowledge a system involved youth’s trauma.

· Participants will learn to describe the unintended consequences when support providers only serve the system involved youth and not the family as a whole.

Agenda 

9:30-9:40am  Welcome and introductions

9:40-10:30am  Current understandings of generational trauma

10:30-10:45am  Break (CEUs will not be offered for this time)

10:45am-12:30pm  Current understandings of generational trauma

12:30-1:30pm  Lunch (CEUs will not be offered for this time)

1:30-3:00pm  Examples of generational trauma

3:00-3:15pm  Break (CEUs will not be offered for this time)

3:15-4:15pm  Strategies to address generational trauma

4:15-4:30pm  Closing and evals

Meet Our Trainers

Nicole Klasey is a clinical psychologist who has worked with trauma survivors for 14 years. She currently consults with agencies on trauma-informed care, programming for commercially sexually exploited youth, vicarious trauma, and leadership development. Nicole has been training multidisciplinary audiences on trauma-related topics since 2015 and provides guest lectures at local universities on human trafficking.

Nola Brantley, CEO & Founder of Nola Brantley Speaks has become nationally recognized as a powerful Survivor voice for the issue of child sex trafficking through her moving and information packed public speaking. Her hard work and perpetual vigilance has brought both focus and concrete resources to this chronically underserved and largely unrecognized population of victimized youth. Nola’s approach aims to be holistic!

This course meets the qualifications for (5.5) BBS CEUs for LCSWs, LMFTs, LPCCs, and LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences & is provided by Fred Finch Youth Center, CAMFT Provider #045295.