This is Part 1 of 9 of the Supporting Resilience in Children & Youth learning series.
This 2-hour workshop is the first in the Supporting Resilience for Children and Youth series. This presentation will discuss what resilience is (and is not), how we can work with children and adolescents to build resilience skills, and how brain development at different developmental stages provides different opportunities to build resiliency skills. Our discussions will be grounded in the Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children, and Families (established by the Irving Harris Foundation), which outline a set of strategies and tools focused on diversity, inclusion, and equity principles.
Registrants who fully attend this event or training will receive a certificate of attendance via email within two weeks after the event or training.
Katie Volk, MA is a child development specialist with a particular focus on infancy, early childhood, and families living in poverty. She has worked with hundreds of community organizations to provide training and technical assistance in the United States and Australia, particularly focused on implementing trauma-informed practices. Katie understands the multidimensional strengths and needs of children and families, the paraprofessionals who serve them, and the systems and contexts in which they live and work. Katie has worked at The National Center on Family Homelessness and C4 Innovations. She has served as adjunct faculty at Boston College, Lesley University, and Wheaton College and is currently conducting her doctoral research at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
The Great Lakes MHTTC is offering this training for individuals working in HHS Region 5: IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, WI. This training is being provided in response to a need identified by Region 5 stakeholders.
