The Importance of Family Strengthening
Speakers:
Jonathan Castro, MSW, Director of Jericho Project’s Walton House
Janikqua Cutno, LMSW, CHRIS 180, Program Manager of Cure Violence and Behavioral Health Initiatives
Sarah Bess Lee Hudson, MSW, Youth Engagement Administrator, Multi-Agency Alliance for Children, Inc. (MAAC)
Family strengthening is an intervention used to help bridge support between a youth and their familiar support systems such as mediation, family and individual counseling to resolve disputes between youth and their families, extended family members, including chosen family, who may be able to provide care support and accommodation. Family strengthening repairs family relational bonds that continue to exist even when youth are no longer in the home. This training helps providers build a toolbox for communities to use family strengthening techniques to support youth and families to thrive.
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