Playlist
Attending to a Crisis
Managing crises are challenging and require a set of skills to effectively support participants in the moment and after. Here is a selection of our offerings that may help you attend to this issue.
Strategies for Verbal De-escalation With Youth
This comprehensive four-module course is designed to provide participants with the knowledge and skills needed to effectively intervene in escalating situations.
These online learning modules will help participants better understand how and why escalation may happen, and how to approach these situa...
Trauma-Informed Approaches to Crisis and De-Escalation in Youth and Families
Youth and families can experience a crisis for a variety of reasons. Understanding how trauma impacts young people and their families can help us better prevent and respond to escalated situations. This 3-hour interactive workshop will help attendees better understand the connection between a young...
- Presenters:
- Jackie Garlock, Daniel Tanh
Introduction to Safety Planning
This module provides learners with a foundational understanding of the importance of safety planning. Modeled as a resource guide, the module reviews important rationale behind safety planning as well as a helpful sample to use in practice.
It can be helpful for practitioners to assess an...
Youth Suicide Risk Assessment & Safety Planning
With the increase in suicidal ideation and attempts as well as death by suicide, we are urged to reconsider assessing and attending to the level of risk for young people in our care (Westers & Plener, 2020). As providers, we can attend to both risk and protective factors early in services to support...
- Presenters:
- Nicholas Westers
Resilience in Youth and Families
What makes someone resilient? Is it their inner strengths? The systems that they are embedded in or their culture? Or is it the support of family and significant others? The truth is that everyone is resilient and all of those factors help us adapt to the challenges that we face. As helping professi...
Resolution-Focused Crisis Support Strategies for Family Peer Advocates, Pt 2
This is a 2-part training series designed to increase Family Peer Advocate’s precision in delivering support to parents that is family-centered, strength-based, and resolution-focused. Part Two begins with an immersive exercise that reminds us of approaches that are productive and those that are...
- Presenters:
- Kappy Madenwald
Resolution-Focused Crisis Support Strategies for Family Peer Advocates Part 1
This is a 2-part training series designed to increase Family Peer Advocate’s precision in delivering support to parents that is family-centered, strength-based, and resolution-focused.
Part One will explore the complexity of working with families who are frequently managing crises large and sma...
- Presenters:
- Kappy Madenwald
Learning the Basics of Family Engagement
Since the Adverse Childhood Events (ACEs) study was published in the late 1990s, demonstrating that an increase in ACEs leads to an increase in one’s risk of various health and social issues, it has become the corner stone of the Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) movement. There are plenty of videos, art...
Creating a Trauma Informed Environment: Promoting Physical & Emotional Safety
When considering the implementation of a trauma-informed care (TIC) approach to service delivery, the principle of Safety is often neglected. Creating a trauma-informed environment entails attending to both the psychological and physical safety of service providers and recipients. This interactive w...
- Presenters:
- Cheryl Martin, Gwen Olton