Building Resiliency in Young People: A Trauma-Sensitive Approach
2150 Post Street, San Francisco 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
October 29, 2019 to October 29, 2019
Join JFCS’ Child Training Institute (CTI) for this educational seminar for professionals that will focus on the importance of healthy, healing connections and strategies that restore control to young people from whom it may have been taken away.
Upon completion of this training participants will be able to:
- Describe the effects that childhood trauma has on the body, brain, and behavior.
- Explain the basics of trauma sensitive care, including the critical importance of well-boundaried connection and giving. youth the experience of having control over their decisions.
- Recite and describe the Seven C’s model of positive youth development and resilience
- Critique the behavioral change process and understand how strengths-based interaction helps facilitate positive actions.
- Communicate with youth in a way that builds on existing strengths rather than undermines forward movement.
- Utilize and develop stress management strategies that are designed to move youth away from self-destructive quick fixes and towards positive behaviors.
Trainer:
Dr. Ken Ginsburg is a pediatrician specializing in Adolescent Medicine at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Serves as Director of Health Services at Covenant House Pennsylvania, an agency that serves Philadelphia’s homeless and marginalized youth. Dr. Ginsburg practices social adolescent medicine with special attention to prevention and the recognition that social context and stressors affect both physical and emotional health. His research over the last 25 years has focused on facilitating youth to develop their own solutions to social problems and to teach clinicians how to better serve them.
Dr. Ginsburg is the author of multiple books and toolkits including Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Giving Kids Roots and Wings and Reaching Teens: Strength Based Communication Strategies to Build Resilience and Support Healthy Adolescent Development. He has received over 50 awards recognizing his research, clinical skills, and advocacy efforts, has been named one of Philadelphia magazine’s “Top Docs” ten times, and has appeared on CNN, NPR, The Today Show, Good Morning America, The CBS morning show, ABC, NBC, and CBS Nightly News programs.
