Understanding Resiliency Through a Trauma-Informed, Youth Development Approach

Description:

This 4hr interactive training will help youth workers and program staff understand resiliency, and its connection to the youth development approach. It will focus on how to support young people to thrive, particularly young people who have witnessed or have been impacted by violence and other traumatic events. The training will be interactive and activity based, and lead to an understanding of how to create program activities and a program culture that is trauma-informed and increases protective factors and reduces risks factors in order to build resiliency in young people.

Audience: youth workers, program staff, others