B5 - A Collaborative Effort to Increase Staff's Emotional Intelligence and In Turn Youth and Family Outcomes

In this session, participants will learn how Casey Family Programs and Walker, located in Massachusetts, collaborated with the Kentucky Department of Community-Based Services (DCBS) to create and deliver a train-the-trainer module in permanency practice to support ongoing permanency efforts in the state. Through this collaboration, supervisors, trainers, and key stakeholders in the Kentucky DCBS system were trained in key aspects of agency level support of permanency such as emotional intelligence, empathy, perspective taking, and trauma-informed practice.

Presenters: Shannon Lee and Mina Burbridge, Walker, Needham, MA; and Ella Bridgewater, Casey Family Programs, San Antonio, TX