Empowering Teams that Support System Involved Youth (SIY)

Michele and Tory Ponsford

Training Description

Teams are an essential part of successfully supporting system involved youth (SIY).  An impactful team requires all members working together in synergy.  The strength of an entire team is dependent upon the strength of each individual.  This course focuses on how each individual team member impacts a strong and effective team.  This course empowers each individual team member to build an effective team using simple strategies and techniques for self-regulation to prevent emotional overwhelm, effective communication, stress management, minimizing drama and abilities to flow with change. Participants will learn to support one another using simple strategies and techniques in order to collaboratively improve outcomes for SIY.

Learning Objectives

· Participants will learn self-regulation strategies and techniques to successfully work together to support SIY.

· Participants will understand how individual self-regulation impacts the effectiveness of the entire team and techniques to support themselves and others.