Generational Trauma Part 1

Nicole Klasey, Psy.D. & Nola Brantley 

Training Description

Working with foster 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 foster 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 be able to define generational trauma.

*  Participants will be able to identify at least one reason a family member may not acknowledge a youth’s trauma

*  Participants will be able to describe the unintended consequences when providers only serve the youth and not the family as 

   a whole

Agenda

9:00-9:20 Welcome and introductions

9:20-10:30 Current understandings of generational trauma

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45-11:45 Current understandings of generational trauma

11:45-12:00 Closing and evals

Meet Our Trainers

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! 

Nicole Klasey is a clinical psychologist with 16 years of working with system-involved youth. She currently consults with agencies on trauma-informed care, programming for commercially sexually exploited children (CSEC), vicarious trauma, and leadership development. Nicole has been training multidisciplinary audiences on trauma-related topics since 2015 and is an adjunct professor for undergraduate and graduate courses.  

This course meets the qualifications for (2.75) BBS CEUs for LCSWs and MFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences & is provided by Fred Finch Youth Center, CAMFT Provider #045295.