Course Description

Foster Care Youth are prescribed psychotropic medications at rates significantly higher than their same-aged peers. This training will provide staff and volunteers with an understanding and workable knowledge of the laws and policies that exist to protect and monitor the youth who are taking these powerful medications.

Narrated by Christine Meyer, Circuit 4 Guardian ad Litem Supervising Attorney.

PLEASE NOTE:  For those with the Guardian ad Litem Program, 1.5 hours of in-service training applies to this training.  The Optima training topic is "Psychotropic Medications".

Training Specialists

Statewide Guardian ad Litem Training Team

For any questions on this material please contact us at [email protected] . Thank you!

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Psychotropic Medication and Our Foster Youth

    • Do Not Miss Out!

    • Psychotropic Medication and Our Foster Youth

    • Tips to Grow & Additional Resources

Reviews

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Psychotropic Meds

Barb Whitman

I thought the course was well written covering a wide range of topics related to a youth taking Psychotropic Meds. My daughter was on Adderall for ADHD (she...

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I thought the course was well written covering a wide range of topics related to a youth taking Psychotropic Meds. My daughter was on Adderall for ADHD (she actually had PTSD and was mis-diagnosed) so I know resource guides of this type are critical. Extremely helpful to understand what happens when we are working with a youth who is in a Foster setting.

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Gal In-service

Recarder Leon

The information in the course was clear and concise. What I learned today will help me performed my duty as a GAL. There were lots of things I thought I knew...

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The information in the course was clear and concise. What I learned today will help me performed my duty as a GAL. There were lots of things I thought I knew but was clearly wrong about. The information in this course cleared it up for me.

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