Working with Young Adults: Skill Based Training

Provided by Huckleberry House

Huckleberry House has 50 years’ experience addressing the unique needs of teens and young adults. We are offering trainings for any professional working with teens and young adults to have the same skills we do! Join us, July 22nd, 2019 for two sessions designed to teach over 30 different skills you can use immediately with your clients.

Training One: 9 am - 11 am

Working with Young Adults: Impact from Trauma, Housing Instability & Survival Behaviors

This training educates participants on key skills and intervention techniques to use when working with young adults. The course focuses on the impact of trauma and homelessness on human brain development, as well as building effective intervention skills to use with this population. Intervention skills are designed for case managers, therapists, and front-line staff. Participants will engage in empathy and awareness building activities to explore how housing insecurity, underdeveloped communication skills, and survival behaviors impact an individual’s ability to thrive. Participants are given 30 different communication, rapport building, and engagement focused skills. All focusing on young adult clients.

Training Two: 12 pm - 2 pm

Trauma Informed Care: Changing the Way We Think

This training provides education on evidenced based trauma informed care models, effects of trauma, and how to identify trauma histories in adolescents and young adult clients. Participants will practice various interventions to use with clients, learn how to identify if a client is within their window of tolerance, how to recognize trauma related symptoms, and how to engage with clients when they are experiencing a crisis or traumatic response. Participants will also gain education on signs of secondary trauma, stressors that contribute to secondary trauma, and how to reduce or prevent secondary trauma.

Details:

Register for 1 or both sessions

Cost is $50 / per person for 1 training

$80 / per person for both trainings

Lunch is on your own

Approved by the SOH, CSWMFTB for Social Workers, 2 CEU hours per training. Provider #RSX031901

Questions? Want to learn about future trainings?

Email profdev@huck-house.org or call (614) 294-8097