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Building a Positive Community with Teens

Length of Training: Two-part series 2 hours each

Delivery Style

Participants are REQUIRED TO ATTEND ALL TRAININGS in the series and create and try out tailored activities in between trainings.

Part 1 - Building Positive Community with Teens - Laying the Foundation

Part 2 - Building Positive Community with Teens - Meaningful Relationships

To learn, stay engaged, and develop as individuals, teens need a safe, predictable, joyful, and inclusive space where they can experience belonging, significance and emotional safety. They also need to feel comfortable taking risks and working with their peers. How can you create such a space for the teens you work with? This lively training series explores the environment in which you work with youth and provides strategies, fun group activities, and relationship-building meeting structures that will help you establish a community that promotes positive experiences for teens.

Please note: Only afterschool practitioners working with middle school, high school, or fifth grade elementary youth should register for this training.

Upon successful completion of this training series and follow-up assignment(s), the participant will earn 6 clock hours (.6 CEUs) of training. 

Building Positive Community with Teens - Laying the Foundation

Training Objectives

Participants will:

Discuss the importance of belonging, significance and emotional safety for youth
Outline the methods involved in establishing a positive community
Utilize interactive learning structures and brain breaks that provide opportunities for youth to feel a sense of belonging and significance

Building Positive Community with Teens - Meaningful Relationships

Training Objectives

Participants will:

Explain the Responsive Advisory Meeting structure.
Practice developing Responsive Advisory Meetings as a way to help youth build positive relationships.

Core Knowledge, Skills and Competencies Addressed (CKSCs)

Learning Environments and Curriculum

Physical Environment and Activities

Identify - A. Recognizes the importance of creating a developmentally and culturally responsive learning environment and following a curriculum.
Identify - C. Identifies aspects of a developmentally and culturally responsive environment and learning plan.
Apply - B. Shows warmth, caring, and respect for children, youth, and others as individuals.
Apply - C. Employs schedules, routines, and structured transitions.

Physical, Social/Emotional, and Cognitive Development

Apply - B. Implements strategies to develop young people’s self-awareness, social awareness, self-management, relationship building, and responsible decision making.
Apply - C. Models healthy interactions and guides children and youth in self-awareness, social awareness, relationships, and responsible decision making.

Language and Communication Development

Apply - C. Encourages children and youth to communicate in a variety of ways

Creative Expression

Apply - B. Supports individual expression, including cultural influences.

Relationships and Interactions with Children and Youth

Individual Child/Youth Guidance

Apply - A. Provides a supportive environment in which children and youth can learn and practice pro-social behaviors.
Apply - D. Practices positive, health interactions and guides children and youth in self-awareness, social awareness, relationship building, and responsible decision making.

Youth Engagement, Voice, and Choice

Apply - A. Encourages youth to express their ideas and feelings to support healthy development, meaningful relationships, and program quality.

Equity and Inclusion

Inclusive and Accessible Physical and Social Spaces
Apply - A. Creates an inclusive, welcoming, and respectful environment for all.

Primary QIS Scales Addressed:

I. Safe Environment

I-E. Creating Safe Spaces

II. Supportive Environment

II-J: Active Learning

III. Interactive Environment

III-K. Sense of Belonging
III-N: Cultivating Empathy

Date Information

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Series Dates

Part 1- 02/02/23; Part 2- 02/16/23

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Upon successful completion of this training series and follow up assignment(s), the participant will earn 6 clock hours (.6 CEUs) of training.

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