As a part of its series, Innovations in Counseling, the NBCC Foundation invites you to a no-cost webinar on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020, from 1–2 pm EDT. Live webinars are available at no cost to NCCs, scholars, and fellows, and documentation of one clock hour of continuing education is available for registrants who attend the full webinar.
Counselors working with children and adolescents in foster care must recognize that these youth need more than their basic needs met during difficult times. Keeping these needs in context is especially pertinent during a crisis. If counselors understand what these varying needs are, they can continue to help foster youth toward the path of adult self-sufficiency upon exiting the foster care system. This webinar will help counselors understand the psychological and self-fulfillment needs of foster youth beyond their basic, physiological needs utilizing Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs as a conceptual framework. Join to learn more about how counselors can provide better support for foster youth and their foster families during challenging times.
Dr. Regina Gavin Williams is a counselor educator at North Carolina Central University, a National Certified Counselor (NCC), and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (NC). She holds a PhD in counseling and counselor education from North Carolina State University, an MEd in school counseling from Valdosta State University, and a BS in psychology with a minor in women’s studies from the University of Georgia. Dr. Williams has worked in a variety of settings, including community mental health, student affairs, and telemental health counseling. Her research focuses on the adult self-sufficiency of adolescents aging out of the foster care system, training therapeutic foster caregivers, and assisting adolescents with postsecondary education and career decision-making. She also has a passion for providing spaces of support for mothers of color, having served as co-creator/co-chair of a local conference, Hear Our Voices: Advocacy for Mothers of Color. Dr. Williams is the 2019–2020 recipient of the Chi Sigma Iota Distinguished Alumni Award (Nu Sigma Chi Chapter - NC State) and a 2016 NBCC Minority Fellowship Program (MFP) Doctoral Fellow.
Twanna Monds is an upper school counselor and chair of health and wellness at Cary Academy in Cary, North Carolina. Before joining Cary Academy, she worked as a college instructor at Durham Technical Community College and as a public school educator for 16 years. Ms. Monds received her undergraduate degree from Indiana University and an MEd in school counseling from the University of Cincinnati. She is currently pursuing her PhD at North Carolina State University. She is a National Board Certified Teacher and Licensed Clinical Mental Health Associate, and she has a certificate as a Career Development Facilitator. She is on the Advisory Board for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Caregiving Youth Project and served as a delegate for the North Carolina School Counselor Association. Ms. Monds has presented on various topics in the field of counseling throughout the country. Her research interests include youth caregivers, African American women with disabilities, and developing school-based mental health programs.
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