Youth Worker Training

Professional Development in Best Practices

The Center offers individualized training designed to enhance the professional development of youth service workers, to enable them to maintain the highest standards and deliver high quality programs. It also offers customized training for organizations and their staff.

These programs are customized to individual needs, and may include one or more of the following components:

  • Introduction or refresher in best practices
  • Spiritual development in children and adolescents
  • Play and youth and community development
  • Review and updates in all areas of strength-based youth development approaches, including:
    • Developmental assets
    • Character education
    • Resiliency
    • Asset-based community development
    • Techniques for asset-mapping youth development resources
    • Developing criteria and methods to measure outcomes