Strengths-Based Coaching Techniques to Support System-Involved Youth to Succeed in Life, Academics, & Careers

Robert Dousa

Training Description

It is important for those that support system-involved youth to be able to effectively engage them in efforts which help them transcend past experiences and build a life that is constructive, inspires joy, is fun, and promotes success in social settings, academics, and career related activities. Support providers of system-involved youth also should help them feel secure and engaged in a healthy way with their community. In this training, we will explore how to enhance our capacity to support system-involved youth (SIY) by exploring “Strengths-based Coaching Techniques” that will motivate and provide direction regarding how to foster alliance and promote young people’s emotional development and wellbeing as well as strengthen their resilience and ability to heal from traumatic events. Practicing and sharing the methods outlined by this workshop will allow us to improve the practice of how we empower system-involved youth.

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

· Identify at least 2 activity based calming environment regulation techniques that foster talent expression with system-involved youth;

· Identify at least 2 steps of how to engagingly administer the strengths test with SIY and apply the results in a digital vision plan that increases their goal attainment; and

· Identify at least 2 styles of performance enhancing techniques that strengthen SIY functioning.

Agenda

10:00-10:05am  Sign-in and Introduction

10:05-10:15am  Explore activity based calming environment regulation techniques that sets the table for providing strengths-based coaching support for system-involved youth

10:15-10:30am  Practice with colleagues activity-based calming environment regulation techniques

10:30-10:45am  Explore various Strengths Tests and how to use results

10:45-11:00am  Learn how to engagingly administer the strengths test with SIY and apply the results in a digital vision plan

11:00-11:15am  Explore building a Backwards Map (project plan) and how to show youth their talents reflected in the experiences of participating in a positive culture

11:45am-12:00pm  Wrap Up & Closingce enhancing techniques that strengthen SIY functioning

11:30-11:45am  Practice with colleagues coaching each other on performance enhancing techniques that strengthen SIY functioning

11:45am-12pm Wrap Up & Closing

Meet Our Trainer

Mr. Robert Dousa, for the past 26 years has been working on researching how to support the healing of people, especially young adults suffering from Complex Post Traumatic Disorders (CPTSD) while experiencing and receiving various healing modalities on himself and reading several alternative healing books for personal freedom from trauma. Prior to retirement from the public education system (22 years paid, 3 years volunteer) and most especially (2003-2022) as a Program Manager in the Behavioral Health Department for the Oakland Unified School District’s Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drugs Intervention program, Robert developed a strengths-based life coaching program, grant funded by the CA Dept of Education, that utilized 15 life coaches (diversity of gender, multi-ethnic, with individual hobby strengths) who utilized a variety of interventions and approaches while implementing inside Oakland schools. Currently, he offers services designed to empower young adults struggling with inner negative talk to find their own inner guiding light and individual gifts, talents, and passions in support of their future… and to also coach parents of SIY to re-establish a positive influential relationship with their children, guiding them towards healing their own inner child in the process. Currently, he is providing individual life coaching, training of intervention approaches, coaching training, and teaching to those individuals and organizations that support system involved youth.

This course meets the qualifications for (2.0) BBS CE hours for LCSWs, LMFTs, LPCCs, and LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences & is provided by Fred Finch Youth Center, CAMFT Provider #045295.