Train the Trainer: Information Delivery Skills for Those Who Support System Involved Youth

Kelsey Pacha

Training Description

This training will support participants in offering trainings to providers, parents, and/or other staekeholders involved with system involved youth in care. Participants will cultivate the skills needed to create measurable, specific objectives, and build a training based on those objectives. Participants will consider the learning styles of the audiences they will be presenting to, leave with a greater understanding of how to create and present training content, and evaluate their effectiveness in delivering information. Participants will review the outline they previously created of their desired training, practicing facilitation skills and leading activities to support their training content. Participants will consider the needs of the audiences they will be presenting to, rehearse dealing with microaggressions, storytelling, and facilitating difficult conversations. Participants will leave with a greater sense of comfort in facilitating, a toolbox of possible activities to use, and identify ways to reinforce their learning objectives even when unexpected distractions occur so that they can confidently facitliate trainings that will improve outcomes for system involved youth.

Learning Objectives

· Learn how to identify learning objectives and create a sample agenda.

· Learn tips for creating an effective slide deck, and how to best leverage visual and verbal information.

· Identify the needs and strengths of trainee population within the context of foster care, juvenile justice, and other social service systems.

· Practice/embody leading various training activities.

· Create an evaluation based on learning objectives.

Agenda 

9-9:10am Introductions: name, GP, one thing to learn, what training you’d be interested in giving; objectives, agreements.

9:10-10:50am Components of a training: materials and activities. Slide deck 101. Training worksheet.  Training worksheet.

10:50-11:05am Break (CEUs will not be offered for this time)

11:05am-12pm Discuss eight learning styles and embody a portion of a training that addresses multiple learning styles.

12-12:30pm Lunch (CEUs will not be offered for this time)

12:30-1:05pm Materials, activities, and media. Fill out Training Creation Matrix and pair share.

1:05-2pm Facilitation 101—eight roles of a facilitator, what facilitation is/is not.

2-2:15pm Break (CEUs will not be offered for this time)

2:15-3:30pm Storytelling and self-disclosure; telling a story with a purpose. Group fishbowl activity. Difficult conversations and microaggressions. Roleplay with active listening/re-stating. Facilitation skills: active listening. Roleplay active listening in pairs.

3:30-4:15pm Types of activities. Best practices, tips & tricks for leading activities

4:15-4:45pm Video presentation critique.

4:45-5pm Wrap up and Questions & Answers

Meet Our Trainer

Kelsey Pacha, MA, M.Div. is a trans man who has worked with marginalized communities for 15+ years in a variety of settings. He holds a Master of Religion and Psychology, Master of Divinity, and Certificate of Sexuality and Religion from Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, CA. He also holds a Bachelor of Science in Human Development and Psychological Services from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. He is the owner of Kelsey Pacha Consulting, which supports the work of institutions and individuals in increasing their capacity for cultural humility and social justice-informed institutional change. Kelsey offers educational trainings and LGBTQ workplace policy expertise with an emphasis on practical skills, identity awareness, and personal empowerment. He regularly works with corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion officers and LGBTQ affinity groups, as well as legal, clinical, medical, and direct service

(including child welfare and faith leader) personnel. 

This course meets the qualifications for (7) BBS CEUs 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.