Description: Our general trainings and technical assistance focuses on timely topics affecting the youth serving system that is immediately usable and applicable at all levels (ex. volunteers, direct service, middle managers…).
Thursday, September 15, 2011
General TA #1:
“Teen Pregnancy Prevention: Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health”
Youth development professionals can have a great impact on reducing sexual risk-taking behaviors and impact adolescents’ decisions around sex. This session provides up-to-the minute update on teen pregnancy and birth rates along with the latest strategies and interventions to help teens delay intercourse and consistently practice safer sex if they choose to be sexually active.
9:00 am – 11:00 am
Facilitator: Planned Parenthood of
Location:
Friday, November 18, 2011
General TA #2: “Psychological First Aid/ Youth and Trauma”
Unfortunately, young people experience and are exposed to a wide variety of traumatic experiences. These experiences impact the development and interactions observe in the youth we serve. This session focuses on the impact of child traumatic stress on the safety and healthy development of children and youth, strategies to identify these symptoms and resources to address them.
10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Facilitator: Jim Siemianowski, Capital Region Mental
Location:
Friday, January 13, 2012
General TA #3: “Results Based Accountability 101”
This workshop addresses how to establish results and indicators of the well-being of children, families adults and communities, how to use results to drive decision making and budgeting, how to establish performance measures for programs and agencies, how to use performance measures to improve performance, and the linkage between program accountability and cross-community accountability
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Facilitator: Ronald W. Shack, PhD, Charter oak Group, LLC
Location:
Thursday, February 9, 2012
General TA #4: Developing Programming for Tweens
Middle adolescence is a time of blossoming development. During this time tweens’ thinking skills take a decidedly adult turn, their bodies mature, and friends and social networks outside the family become increasingly important. This session will focus on strategies and best practices to address the unique programming needs of tweens.
10:00 am – 12:00 noon
Facilitator: Linda Fecteau, MS
CT Afterschool Network
Location:
Friday, March 23, 2012
General TA # 5: CPR, First Aid and AED Certification Training”
CPR First Aid and AED Initial certification- This is a CPR, first Aid and Automated External Defibrillator certification course for individuals who have not been CPR certified previously or their certification has lapsed for more than six moths.
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Facilitator: Captain Patrick Jones
Location: City of
Friday, March 30, 2012
General TA #6: “CPR, First Aid, and AED re-certification”
CPR First Aid and AED re-certification training for individuals whose certification has lapsed within the last six months.
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Facilitator: Captain Patrick Jones
Location: City of
Friday, May 4, 2012
General TA #7: “Summer Learning”
Youth, regardless of socioeconomic status, fall behind if they don’t have access to high quality summer learning experiences. This session focuses on the research that supports summer learning, outcomes based programming, and ideas for engaging activities for summer.
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Facilitator: Janice Chu-Zhu, Senior Director of
The Children’s Aid Society,
Location:
