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TNOYS Pre-Conference
Special Institute:
"Youth, Gang and Family Violence Prevention and Intervention: An
Evidence Based Solution-focused Approach"
Presented by:
 
Yvonne Dolan, M.A.
Penelope Griffith, LICSW
August 12, 2008
10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Austin Airport Marriott South - Austin, TX
About the Workshop
Focusing on practical
techniques that participants can immediately apply to their work the day
after the training, this workshop provides solid hands-on experiential
training in proven solution-focused, illustrated with real life case
examples, clear principles for preventing and intervening in community
violence through family, group and individual counseling, gang mediation
based on the Columbia Heights/Shaw Family Support Collaborative (CHSFSC)
Model.
Participants will learn
practical techniques to engage and help families quickly arrive at
creative strategies to help their young members already involved in
gangs or at risk of such involvement and prevent them from engaging in
criminal activities, developing and enhancing cooperative relationships
between youth service providers, schools and law enforcement personnel
to increase youth, family and community safety by developing
interventions to prevent violent incidents before they occur.
Participants will also learn techniques for relieving PTSD symptoms in
traumatized youth and family members and effective self care strategies
for relieving "burnout" and secondary PTSD symptoms in treatment
providers.
This training is
suitable for social service and mental health professionals, care givers
working with youth and families, law enforcement personnel and all
others who care about preventing youth, gang and family related violence
and promoting healing and health at home, in school and within the
community.
About the Presenters
Penny (Penelope)
Griffith, LICSW, and Yvonne Dolan, M.A.,
are currently at
work on their forthcoming book, Youth, Gang and Family Violence
Prevention and Intervention: A Solution-focused Approach describing the
work of Griffith and her colleagues in a section of Washington, DC
notorious for its prevalence of youth gang related murders and violence.
Working in close collaboration with the Washington DC Police force,
Penny Griffith and her colleagues at the Columbia Heights/Shaw
Collaborative dramatically reduced the murder rate in their Washington
DC community to zero while simultaneously developing strong cooperative
relationship between minority, culturally, and ethnically diverse
community agencies. As Family Services Director of the Columbia
Heights/Shaw Collaborative, Penny has pioneered the combined use of
Solutions Focused Practice and Family Group Conferencing to address
issues of community violence, teaching workers and staff to draw on
group members' existing strengths and their ability to define their own
problems to develop unique, highly effective, personalized solutions in
a timely manner, even in the midst of crisis situations.
In 2003, the Collaborative was instrumental
in creating Gang Intervention Partnership to respond to the growing
presence and lethality of Latino gangs in the area. That project
united law enforcement, community agencies, and families in designing
and implementing interventions which were so successful as to reduce to
zero the number of fatalities caused by Latino gangs in the city.
Building on this success, the Collaborative began in late 2006 a similar
project aimed at reducing violence perpetuated by African American crews
in the #rd District Police District.
Yvonne Dolan conducts trainings in
the Solution-focused Brief Therapy approach all around the world.
A psychotherapist with 30 years experience working with traumatized
youth and families, she is the author of 5 previous books on the
Solution-focused approach, numerous chapters and journal articles.
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