Agenda - 06-15-2021; 8-g - JCPC Certification and County Plan for FY 2021-2022

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31 and will be sending an email out with the link to register. Beginning January 1, court counselors will no longer be completing the risk assessment. Instead, they will be using the YASI (Youth Assessment and Screening Instrument). The information programs will be receiving from court counselors will look much different and for non-court referred youth, programs will have to complete the entire risk assessment, instead of just a couple portions. If programs are not able to attend the training they will have to work something else out with Denise because they will be lost come January when they receive new referrals. Dispute Settlement Center presentation JCPC funded a training that Val and Lia were able to attend as park of their development funds they received through the Expansion funds. The technique that Lia is going to take the group through is called "Looping" or reflective listening. Lia is going to explain the technique, why she thinks it's useful, and then do some practicing. The training that they attended was from the Center for Understanding in Conflict. The topic was "Real Talk on Race: Dialogue between Races" and was designed to provide professional development for talking about race and racism in interracial spaces and across power dynamics. This training felt increasingly important as some of the conflicts they deal with have multiracial components,people, and is becoming increasingly talked about in some spaces; there are new scales at which these conversation are happening. The topic of reflective listening is a tool that people can use to show empathy as a listener, check for understanding, and make sure the other person is being heard. The exercise at the training was put in two groups of black indigenous people of color in one caucus and white folks in another caucus receiving skills about how to tell stories and how to listen. White folks had the practice of reflecting back in hearing stories from the folks in the black caucus of times when they experienced racial harm. _. Lia recounted a story of how this practice has been helpful in her work. She met with a middle schooler who got into some conflict and during this meeting she asked about how they were going to make a plan to ensure this didn't happen again in school. She asked him what he's was feeling and what was bothering him during these times when he felt like he wanted to fight. His response was"When I feel like people don't get me". Instead of marking down his answer and moving on, she used this as an opportunity to practice reflect listening. She asked,"So you want people to tell you they get it"?His response was that it was when people pretended they understand. She asked, "So am I hearing you right that you get most upset when people pretend they understand; that they pretend to get what it's like to be you?Am I. missing anything?"He said that he also doesn't like it when people pretend to understand what it's like to hear the names he gets called. She was able to loop further and further towards what was actually meaningful to him and that discover what was actually bothering him. The issue was that he told a teacher that someone had called him a racial slur and the teacher said that they knew how he felt and that made him more upset and felt like he needed to take matters into his own hands. If they hadn't gone all the way down that road,Lia could have ended up saying the exact thing that his teacher had said to him that made him upset. While the exercise of looping and reflecting back seems simple, it is a great way to check for understanding. Lia demonstrated the method on a less impactful question with a meeting attendee. Lia will ask a question, reflect back, and ask if she missed anything. The most common thing people miss is the emotional impact. They often get the fact but miss the feeling. When in doubt,just being able to ask at the end"did I get that right?"really offers an opportunity for folks after you reflect back to correct you and make it normal to correct. Not only does it allow for correction, but the validation someone gets from the process is also affirming.