Healing Play for Child Welfare-Involved Youth Non-Contact Webinar 8.29.26

Presenter: Ama Traore, LPC, Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor™ 

Session date: August 29th, 2026 

Session time: 9:00 am-1:15 pm CST 

CEs: 3 APT Non-Contact CEs 

Session description:

Child welfare-involved youth experience layers of grief when they are separated from their family systems. Play therapy can serve as an effective tool to enhance attachments and activate healing in children of all ages. This workshop will cover the core needs of adoption and ways you can meet them through thoughtful play-based assessment, case conceptualization and treatment. Attendees will analyze the therapeutic powers of play that can help child welfare involved youth address issues of grief and attachment. The workshop will cover essential play therapy seminal theories to employ when working with child welfare involved children including Child Centered Play Therapy (CCPT) and Theraplay.

Learning objectives: 

1. Apply the therapeutic powers of play when working with child welfare involved youth 
2. Discuss play therapy interventions to address attachment issues in child welfare involved youth 
3. Describe interventions to address grief in child welfare involved youth

Agenda: 

• 9:00 am-10:30 am Lecture & experiential learning 
• 10:30 am-10:45 am Break 
• 10:45 am-12:00 pm Lecture & experiential learning 
• 12:00 pm-12:15 pm Q & A and wrap-up