Leadership Lunch & Learn: Difficult Topics Brought to Us By Our Children and Teens

Leadership Lunch & Learn: Difficult Topics Brought to Us By Our Children and Teens

About this Lunch & Learn:

To talk and brainstorm about how to support our children and teens when they come to us, as staff, with difficult or heavy issues (e.g. assault, abuse/neglect, self-harm, etc…).

Please review the following materials prior to the Lunch & Learn:

• “Become a Better Listener: Active Listening” https://psychcentral.com/lib/become-a-better-listener-active-listening/
• “10 Steps to Effective Listening” https://www.forbes.com/sites/womensmedia/2012/11/09/10-steps-to-effective-listening/#3e7a3f173891
• “Difficult Conversations with Teenagers” http://raisingchildren.net.au/articles/tricky_conversations.html
• “What Should I Do After A Child Tells” http://www.stopitnow.org/ohc-content/what-should-i-do-after-a-child-tells
• “Responding to Disclosure” http://www.earlyopenoften.org/be-ready-to-respond/responding-to-disclosure

Who should attend:

This is open to everyone, and may be particularly beneficial to staff with occasional child contact and/or traveling staff.

Learning Objectives:

• The importance of listening
• Realizing that you don’t have to have/give an answer
• How to respond to the information that you are being given
• Know when to pass off the information given to you to others

Important Reminders:

Bring something tasty for lunch!