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Advancing Youth Development:
A Curriculum for
Training Youth Workers
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This training is the foundation for all of the other trainings offered. It asserts youth development as the core principles which guide youth worker practice and it begins by building upon the strengths of young people.
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All Holds Barred:
A Sensory Approach to Resolving Conflicts with Youth |
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This training demonstrates how youth workers can use their five senses (plus a sixth one) to resolve conflicts with and among young people when they arise.
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| Communication: The Spark Between Listening and Speaking |
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This training demonstrates effective communication, identifies various barriers to effective communication and encourages youth workers to develop techniques that promote effective communication. |
| Diversity in Demand: Building a Multicultural Community |
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This training explores bias and bigotry from a personal and systemic perspective. Youth workers learn strategies that allow them to challenge those biases in order to promote true multiculturalism.
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Dynamic Interactions: Working with Youth in
Small Groups |
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This training uses a group work model that teaches how to assess, respond, engage and influence young people within the parameters of a small group context. |
He Said/She Said: Understanding the Role
of Gender in Youth Development |
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This training explores how gender development affects adolescent development and it will examine the nature and role of gender as it unfolds in the life of young people. |
Introduction to Youth Development: A New Paradigm for Youth
Work |
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This training introduces the youth development approach as the most effective means for working with young people. It explores three fundamental components of the Advancing Youth Development curriculum. |
Is this Fun or is it Developmental?:
Using
Field Trips as
Learning Opportunities
for Youth
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Field trips are a vital component of most youth programs. This training demonstrates how youth workers can build in developmental learning opportunities while still having “fun” on their field trips. |
New Millennium
Learning: Engaging
Multiple Learning
Styles |
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This training explores various learning style models, allows youth workers to identify their own learning style and suggests practical implications for their work with youth.
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Program Design with the End in Mind: An
Application for Youth Development |
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This training teaches youth workers to design youth programs using the youth development approach. |
Real Life Learning for the Real World Learner:
A Project-Based Learning Experience |
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This training promotes project-based learning as a strategy to engage young people in an active learning process. Through the use of real life projects, youth gain the necessary competencies that benefit them throughout life. |
Supervising Youth Development Practice:
A Guide for Training Supervisors of Youth Workers |
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Intended for youth worker supervisors, this training integrates the principles and practices of youth development with best practices in the supervision of youth development work. |
True Colors™:
Flying Your True Colors |
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This training is an dynamic self awareness tool designed for youth workers, parents and young people. It explores human behavior in a fun, energetic environment using the renown True Colors™ approach. |
The Truth About
Youth:
A Practitioner’s
Approach to Adolescent Development |
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This training explores current research in adolescent development and suggests its impact upon youth development practice. |
| What in the World is a Youth?: A Youth Cultural Competency Immersion |
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This training immerses youth workers into elements of youth culture and they use that experience as a framework for building relevant relationships with young people.
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| What Youth Need Is (A)Parent: Increasing Parent Involvement |
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This high energy, interactive workshop presents six types of parent involvement to incorporate into program practices. This framework introduces a comprehensive approach to involving parents. |
Youth Participation:
Moving From
Engagement to Empowerment
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This training explores models of youth participation and demonstrates how to maximize young people’s contributions within programs and organizations. |
