Educational Resources for Youth and Caregivers
The Child and Family Teaming Process (CFT) helps create a plan that ensures safety, promotes placement stability, permanency, and wellbeing. Learn more about CFT in this brochure (English / Spanish).
- Trauma-Informed Strategies for Working with Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
- Estrategias informadas sobre el trauma para poder trabajar con individuos con discapacidades
- Psychotropic Medication 101: The FDA, Child Welfare, and You
- Psychotropic Medications (English / Spanish)
- Atención Informada Sobre El Trauma (Trauma Informed Care)
- How Caregivers Can Instill Confidence and Resilience in Children
- Specialty Mental Health Services for Beneficiaries Under the Age of 21 – A Guide for Youth
- Specialty Mental Health Services for Children and Youth – A Guide for Parents and Caregivers
Trainings for the LACDMH Network
- Promoting Placement Stability Utilizing the Child and Family Team Process*
- Clinical Learning Pathway for Trauma Informed Strategies for Working with Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities*
- Addressing High-Risk Behaviors
- Addressing Safety throughout the Child and Family Team (CFT) Process
- Child and Family Team (CFT) Facilitator Webinar Series
- Creative Interventions for System-Involved Youth
- Crisis Teams: How to Create Strategies to Support Placement Stability for Children and Youth
- Developing Worry Statements in the Child and Family Team (CFT) Process
- Engaging Birth-5 Throughout the Child & Family Team Process
- Engaging Youth in Placement: From Engagement to Aftercare
- How Caregivers Can Instill Confidence and Resilience in Children
- Incorporating CANS into the Conversations at the Child and Family Team Meeting
- Integrated Core Practice Model & Child And Family Team Training
- Intergenerational Trauma: The Trauma Inheritance
- Overview: Preparing for Child and Family Teaming
- Prevent the Eruption: Trauma Informed De-Escalation Strategies
- Strategies for Engaging Biological Parents into the CFT Process
- Teaming with Formal Supports
- The Role of the Clinician: Participating in the Child and Family Team Process
Supplemental Trainings
- Burnout Prevention
- Preventing Compassion Fatigue: Managing Vicarious Trauma and Countertransference
- Self-Care for Providers
* This training is required for new and current LACDMH staff as well as new contracted provider’s staff and current staff who work with children and youth, ages 0 to 21 who are in the child welfare system, probation, and/or are at risk of being moved from their home.