Healthcare and Well-Being Webinars

This training introduces participants to the concept of resiliency and how to build resiliency in the youth and families they are working with. The training challenges participants to assess their own resiliency traits and begin exploring how their own traits impact their ability to build resiliency in youth and families. This training will define resiliency, and explore domains, characteristics, and traits that are needed in order to build and strengthen resiliency. Strategies to build resiliency in outside supports and inner strengths in youth and families will be identified.

This training will provide participants with effective engagement strategies that can be used to engage youth and families. The training will identify various strategies that can be done on an individual and an organizational level to increase the level of engagement between the professional and the client being served. This training will also challenge participants to identify barriers to engagement and identify strategies on how to overcome those barriers. The training discusses resistance as a part of engagement and how to overcome resistance. At the end of the training, participants will learn the concept of resiliency and begin to explore how they can begin building resiliency in the youth and families they are working with.

In this session, participants will explore how trauma can impact the food choices and habits of youth. Understanding the link between trauma and food preferences is crucial in providing effective support. By adopting a trauma-informed approach tailored to the unique needs of young individuals, caregivers and youth service providers can create a safe and supportive environment that considers the influence of trauma on the nutritional well-being of the youth they serve.

Prevent Child Abuse Illinois will highlight for main objectives in this webinar: Early identification of drug endangered children, Recognition of the risks drug endangered children face, Development of collaborative responses, Development of Local DEC Alliance

Poverty: Cycles of RiskThis training will allow participants to gain a deeper understanding of how poverty often reinforces other issues such as exposure to violence, complex trauma, homelessness, and substance misuse and how living in poverty can impact the most vulnerable families in communities we serve. Participants will explore their own attitudes and beliefs about poverty and the people who are identified as living in poverty. Participants will also explore the underlying conditions of poverty and how that impacts our communities.

Navigating YouthCare to Identify Resources for the Health and Well-Being of Children and YouthThis webinar will provide information on YouthCare and the resources available to advocates to assist youth and their caregivers in navigating the healthcare system. Participants will be able to identify resources on the ilyouthcare.com website that will allow them to advocate for the health and well-being of youth.

YouthCare Transition to Regular MedicaideThis training will provide an overview of how insurance coverage for youth whose Medicaid benefits are managed by YouthCare transition to Regular Medicaid and includes information about choosing a Regular Medicaid Health Plan.

Defining and Recognizing Personal and Organizational ResilienceThe Illinois Association of Court Appointed Special Advocates (IL CASA) gratefully acknowledges the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office for Victims of Crime, for allowing us to reproduce, in whole, a series of 4 customized 90-minute virtual trainings on compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and burnout, the third of which is Defining and Recognizing Personal and Organizational Resilience. This video was prepared by the Office for Victims of Crime.

Defining and Recognizing Vicarious Trauma, Compassion Fatigue, and BurnoutThe Illinois Association of Court Appointed Special Advocates (IL CASA) gratefully acknowledges the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office for Victims of Crime, for allowing us to reproduce, in whole, a series of 4 customized 90-minute virtual trainings on compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and burnout, the first of which is Defining and Recognizing Vicarious Trauma, Compassion Fatigue, and Burnout. This video was prepared by the Office for Victims of Crime.