PROFESSIONAL HELPING SKILLS FOR YOUTH SERVICE PROVIDERS: THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF THE PROFESSIONAL HELPING RELATIONSHIP
This workshop is geared for youth service providers who work with youth in a formalized helping capacity. Youth service providers will learn the basic building blocks and techniques to help youth meet their goals and come up with a solution to their problems. If you work with youth in a formalized helping capacity, this workshop will assist you in: developing your professional helping skills, navigate the various stages of the casework process, set appropriate boundaries with youth and how to deal with resistance. Specifically, this workshop will cover:
- What Professional helping is and what it is not.
- How to create a safe environment, build rapport and get youth to open up.
- The 7 basic helping skills: what they are and how to utilize each.
- Clarifying roles, boundaries and expectations: What youth should expect from the helping relationship.
- Resistance: Why you should expect it and how not to take it personally.
Cassandra Mack, Strategies for Empowered Living
When: 5-24-11 (Tuesday)
10AM –1 PM
Fee: $40.00
Location:
We reserve the right to turn away registrants/participants at the door if they arrive after the set start time of the session.
If you have special needs that we need to be aware of, please contact us.
