Youth Support In-Person Endorsement Training

This in-person training is an intensive all day training that includes exploration of safe sharing of lived experience as a youth or adolescent with a SED diagnosis and/or Substance Use Disorder, and how shared experience can be used to build mutuality and connection. The three online youth support training modules are a prerequisite to the in-person youth support training.  The successful completion of the online modules and the in-person training will provide a Youth Support Endorsement for qualified individuals only. This training is limited to 30 participants at each location.

This training will cover the following topics:

• Roles and responsibilities of the youth support provider
• Youth support skills and core competencies
• Engaging youth and empowering youth voice
• Strategic use of story-telling
• Working with families, teams, providers, and system partners
• Youth support provided in groups