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Speaker: Charlie Appelstein

Topics: Understanding & Responding to At-Risk Children & Youth Using a Positive, Trauma-Informed, Stength-Based Approach

Strategies for Responding to Kids & Families Affected by the Northern California Fires

Cost: Free

Join Prevent Child Abuse Sonoma County (PCASC) and Charles Appelstein for an informative and motivational training on March 7, 2018.

Charles Appelstein, M.S.W. is an internationally prominent youth care training specialist, author and motivational speaker whose primary focus is on teaching positive, strength-based theories and techniques to professionals who guide at-risk children, youth and families.

Charles works primarily with treatment facilities, foster care associations, parent groups, schools, and juvenile justice programs. He has authored three youth care books that are widely used within the field, including No Such Thing as a Bad Kid: Understanding and Responding to Kids with Emotional & Behavioral Challenges Using a Positive, Strength-Based Approach. Charlie’s strength-based approach delivers a message of hope and possibility to our most vulnerable children and those who shape and influence their lives.

Strength-based practice is an emerging approach to guiding at-risk children, youth, and families that is exceptionally positive and inspiring. Its focus is on strength-building rather than flaw-fixing. It begins with the belief that every young person has or can develop strengths and utilize past successes to mitigate problem behavior and enhance academic and social functioning. This presentation will highlight many of the key principles and techniques of this transforming modality.

Charles will also discuss strategies for understanding and guiding children and youth victimized by the recent fires, including: dealing with grief, how trauma can affect developmental stages, and strategic verbal interventions to help professionals better engage and assist these kids.

Additional topics include:

• What is strength-based practice & the power of a positive attitude & culture
• The effects of trauma and positive emotions on the brain
• Mindset changing, strength-based communication principles and techniques - including re-framing, using solution-focused questions, positive-predicting and inspirational metaphors
• Self-esteem building & activities for at-risk children and youth; how to help cognitively inflexible kids
• The importance of being family-friendly
• Why, how, and when to use incentive plans
• The importance of controlling personal emotions (i.e. managing number one first)
• Respectful, relationship-based limit setting; and a host of creative cognitive behavioral strategies.

The Center for Innovation and Resources, Inc. CIR is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs and LCSws. Course meets qualifications for 5 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs and LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (provider #128510).

Individuals with disabilities who require accommodations to participate in this training should contact Anne Barron at anneb@calparents.org or (707) 585-6108 x1150. Requests must be received by March 1, 2018.