Strategies to Empower and Support Children and Youth with ADHD (3hr)

Provides actionable strategies to reduce stigma, strengthen empathy, and apply effective supports across academic, home, and social settings

Strategies to Empower and Support Children and Youth with ADHD

March 30th, 2026, from 1:00 PM to 4:15 PM EDT

Register by 3/23/26 at 5pm.

This course is offered via Zoom. You will receive additional instructions and a Zoom link in your confirmation email, one week before the training. We will send another reminder 24 hours before the session starts. They will be sent by training@ihs-trainet.com at the Institute for Human Services. You may want to add it to your contact list to ensure the email comes through. Please check your spam folder in case you don’t receive the first email. Sometimes, employers’ firewalls and filtering services block communication from unrecognizable email addresses. We recommend including an alternative email address to prevent this.

About the Course

NOTE: This training is a 3-hour virtual session.

Strategies to Empower and Support Children and Youth with ADHD is an intermediate-level training designed for professionals such as social workers, counselors, psychologists, educators, and others who support individuals with ADHD. This course provides a practical framework for understanding Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)—from its historical roots and clinical features to the real-world challenges faced by children, youth, and families.

Through a blend of research-based insights, hands-on activities, and reflective practice, participants will move beyond awareness to implementation. The training equips professionals with actionable strategies to reduce stigma, strengthen empathy, and apply effective supports across academic, home, and social settings. Participants will leave with tools they can immediately integrate into their practice and a personalized action plan to sustain change.

Objectives

Participants will be able to:

1. Identify and apply strategies that build rapport and reduce stigma when working with clients who present ADHD-related challenges.
2. Implement practical behavioral, communication, and environmental interventions in home, school, and community settings to support youth with ADHD.
3. Implement skills to collaborate effectively with families, educators, and mental health professionals to create coordinated care plans and improve outcomes for clients with ADHD.

Continuing Education

This training is approved for 3 Social Work CE Credits. See additional information below.

Institute for Human Services, provider #1802, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards' (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 03/25/2023 – 03/25/2026. Social workers completing this course receive 3 continuing education credits.

To earn CE credits, participants must attend the session in its entirety, remain on camera, complete an evaluation, and pay the $15 CE fee at the time of registration.

The Institute for Human Services understands that circumstances arise that may prevent registrants from attending a pre-paid training. A training and continuing education credit (minus Eventbrite platform and any credit card fees) will be refunded if a registrant cancels their training attendance on the registration platform at least 7 days in advance of the training event. If the registrant does not cancel within 7 days of the continuing education session, no refund will be issued.

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Learn more about our Continuing Education, Evaluation, and Technology Requirements.

Questions? Email training@ihs-trainet.com or contact our office at 614-251-6000 Monday through Friday between 8 am and 4 pm EST. If you need additional accessibility support, please contact us in advance of the training to make necessary arrangements.

Reminder: This virtual workshop will take place from 1 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. (EDT) with two short breaks built in. Please make note of the time zone.

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Jim Still-Pepper, MA, LSW

Jim Still-Pepper, MA, LSW, is a Senior Clinician and Coordinator of Community-Based Contracts Services at Allwell Behavioral Health Services Inc., a community mental health center where he has worked for over three decades, striving to move clinical services out of the centers and into the community.

Jim is the founder of Still Light Seminars LLC, a motivational training and consulting company; he has trained nationally and internationally focusing on the mental health and care of children and adolescents.

He is also an adjunct instructor at Ashland University’s Founders School of Continuing Education. He develops online courses around behavioral interventions and understanding the mental health of students.

Jim has also authored or co-authored 7 books and has written almost 100 articles. On a side note, he has had numerous poems published, and his artwork and photography have appeared in galleries, magazines, and on greeting cards.