Count Me In - To Be Inspired: Working With Teens - Dispel The Myth (Nv)

1. When you know your “why,” your “what” has more impact because you’re walking towards your purpose.

True

False

2. If we change the way we see teens then it will change what you believe about them. If you change your belief about them, it will change how you treat them.

True

False

3. If the teen is difficult, we as foster parents and caseworkers should _______.

Push through and keep helping them, don’t give up

Give up on them

Disrupt

Let the other people on the team do all the work

4. What do our kids truly need from foster parents and caseworkers?

Someone who will advocate for them.

A good home

Lots of social interaction

A good school

5. Teenagers do better interacting with you if you ______.

Find things you have in common with each other

Just hang out together

Sneak into their personal belongings

All choices are correct

6. People don’t care how much you know…

Until they first know how much you care

They just want you to do your job

They just want you to know why

They just need you to help them

7. How do you truly engage teens?

Truly know them

Make them do things with you

Be a friend to them

Let them do whatever they want to do

8. Three things that will help us be unstoppable when working with teens are________________.

Hear their voice, remember you were young once, realize it takes a village to raise a child

Listen, be a friend, remember who they are

Takes a whole team, good education, be sensitive

Listen, work hard, succeed

9. Why do teens in care misbehave?

Because they don’t feel connected to the people they are supposed to be connected to.

Because they are teenagers

For attention

Because they are bad kids

10. It is hard to do things _________ when dealing with teens.

Alone

As a team

With birth parents