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CWLA is pleased to present the three-part virtual training series that features the publication Working with Traumatized Children – A Handbook for Healing. Now in its third edition, Working with Traumatized Children has been updated to include new strategies and approaches for caregivers and others responsible for meeting the needs of children who are vulnerable.

Participants will gain a strengthened capacity to:

• Define what trauma is and differentiate it from stress
• Provide examples of trauma symptoms in children and adults
• Describe how trauma can impact children’s brains
• Advocate for the provision of safe environments when working with children and adults who have been affected by trauma
• Provide examples of how systems can be traumatizing or retraumatize people
• Explain the importance of understanding the vagus nerve when working with families and children who have been affected by trauma
• Express why self-reflective practices and supervision are important when working with this population

Training registrants will receive an electronic copy of Working with Traumatized Children, Companion Workbook which supplements the virtual training sessions. Training registrants are also eligible to receive a 30% discount on the purchase of hard copies of Working with Traumatized Children – A Handbook for Healing, Third Edition and Working with Traumatized Children, Companion Workbook.  Use promo code WWTC-30 in CWLA’s Bookstore.

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Youth advo­cates, ser­vice providers and com­mu­ni­ty lead­ers: Are you frus­trat­ed by the neg­a­tive nar­ra­tives about young peo­ple? Thriv­ing Youth: Mes­sag­ing Strate­gies to Encour­age a Brighter Future for Young Peo­ple, an upcom­ing webi­nar host­ed by the Annie E. Casey Foun­da­tion, offers guid­ance on how to lever­age data and mes­sag­ing to com­pose pos­i­tive, asset-framed nar­ra­tives about young peo­ple. Recent research com­mis­sioned by the Foun­da­tion shows that the pub­lic remains inclined to sup­port youth devel­op­ment, includ­ing many pre­ven­ta­tive inter­ven­tions. Data indi­cate that pos­i­tive and warm par­ent-youth rela­tion­ships help chil­dren grow up healthy and with skills to suc­ceed in school. Out­side of par­ents, schools, men­tors and youth pro­grams that offer young peo­ple con­struc­tive activ­i­ties like sports, arts and employ­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties lead to reduced risks and bet­ter out­comes. Young peo­ple can thrive if adults and com­mu­ni­ties invest in them and their futures.

Exec­u­tive direc­tors and staff of youth-serv­ing orga­ni­za­tions, par­tic­u­lar­ly those sup­port­ing the young peo­ple with the most bar­ri­ers to suc­cess, are strug­gling to over­come dam­ag­ing stereo­types about youth. They encounter inflam­ma­to­ry and fre­quent­ly exag­ger­at­ed cov­er­age of crimes com­mit­ted by young peo­ple — often rein­forced by media. On their own, fac­tu­al data about crime trends are not help­ing to cor­rect mis­per­cep­tions sur­round­ing youth and their real­i­ties. A con­cert­ed sto­ry­telling and per­sua­sion effort in the media and with­in com­mu­ni­ties is required to neu­tral­ize harm­ful assump­tions and influ­ence poli­cies and practices.

This one-hour ses­sion will offer peo­ple in youth-serv­ing orga­ni­za­tions — espe­cial­ly those with pub­lic-fac­ing roles — data-dri­ven strate­gies to shift harm­ful nar­ra­tives, including:

• under­stand­ing pub­lic per­cep­tion about young people’s chal­lenges and potential;
• learn­ing asset-based frames and mes­sages about what helps youth thrive, includ­ing the oppor­tu­ni­ties, guid­ance and con­nec­tions to pos­i­tive adults that local youth-serv­ing orga­ni­za­tions pro­vide; and
• dis­cov­er­ing how to bol­ster pos­i­tive sto­ry­telling about young peo­ple to counter per­va­sive neg­a­tive narratives.

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Whole Health Louisiana is the state’s cross-sector initiative intended to systematically address, mitigate, and prevent childhood adversity within our systems of care and support sponsored by the Louisiana Department of Health and the Kathleen Babineaux Blanco Public Policy Center.

SPEAKERS

Veronica Gillispie-Bell, MD, MS, FACOG – Dr. Veronica Gillispie-Bell is a Board-Certified Obstetrician & Gynecologist and an Associate Professor at Ochsner Health in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is the Senior Site Lead and Section Head of Women’s Services at Ochsner Kenner, the Director of Quality for Women’s Services across the Ochsner Health System, and the Medical Director of the Minimally Invasive Center for the Treatment of Uterine Fibroids. As Medical Director of the Louisiana Perinatal Quality Collaborative and the Pregnancy Associated Mortality Review for the Louisiana Department of Health, Dr. Gillispie-Bell is a leading force in addressing maternal health disparities. Her work focuses on improving birth outcomes and eliminating racial disparities in maternal health across Louisiana. Dr. Gillispie Bell has testified before Congress, led congressional briefings, and was an invited speaker at The White House Maternal Health Day of Action, where she advocated for policy improvements in maternal care and outcomes.

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