All Families Have Strengths
Families are essential partners in fostering education, nurturing youth development, and building resilience.
To effectively support thriving among young people, it’s important to ensure that both youth and parenting adults feel heard and present in their relationships with educators and other youth-serving adults in their children’s lives. Part of that work involves considering the assumptions we have of parenting adults. What language do we use to describe them? How can deficit mindsets toward other adults impact our work with young people? By addressing our own assumptions, we can shift to a strength-based approach as we work with parenting adults and work together to help young people thrive.
Learning Objectives
- Reflect on our attitudes and beliefs about families in our work
- Contrast strengths-based and deficit-based mindsets and their influence on how we interact with families
- Apply principles of strengths-based approaches to our work
- Practice strategies and tools to connect with families
Outcomes
Participants will gain practical insights and strategies to inform their approach to more effective family engagement.
Who should attend?
Youth-serving practitioners, managers and leaders.
Delivery Method
Virtual or In-Person
90 minutes
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