Community healing and training Recovery Facility Training Suicide AIP Training Youth-worker Seminars
		Youth-worker and youth counselor seminars This seminar is designed to help counselors, caregivers, front line workers, parents, teachers, youth-workers, community health representatives and others learn valuable skills to help them better address the myriad of issues the youth of their communities face today including alcohol, drugs, relationship issues, suicide, violence, vandalism, lack of respect and the youth gang problems that are developing in many communities today. This program is offered to help participants learn more about the underlying factors that play a predominant role in creating youth problems and to help participants learn how to establish better working relationships with youth and what tools to use to reach this goal. The youth-workers seminar is a five day informative, enlightening and very empowering experience for a maximum of 25 participants. The reason this seminar is limited to only 25 participants is this; a small group will have the opportunity to work very closely with the seminar facilitator and receive direct guidance regarding any particular problems the youth of the community may be experiencing. This entire seminar is presented in a circle of respect and dignity where all 25 participants are welcome to become actively involved in sharing their concerns about today’s youth; another reason this seminar is only open to a group of 25 is so each participant will be able to have their concerns addressed in a proper and effective manner, thereby truly helping them become highly skilled youth program leaders within their community. One of the goals of The Young Warriors Network is to provide communities with highly skilled professionals by developing those professionals from within the ranks of their own community members. We firmly believe communities have a better chance at empowering our younger generation out of the grip of substance abuse and the resultant addiction problems if we all make a concentrated effort toward assisting the front line workers, youth-workers and counselor’s in the communities by helping them to develop the specialized skills required when working with youth. Participants in the seminar will learn the importance of maintaining their own personal and professional wellness, you will also learn about the issues youth face on a daily basis, you will learn the facts from youth studies about the multiple issues they consider being the fuel that feeds the addictions in their lives. You will also gain a deeper understanding that there really are no bad youth, there are however youth that do bad things, this component will help you to understand why they act out in the way they do. You will learn the role that music and music videos play in forming the beliefs and attitudes of many of our youth, why Native youth identify so strongly with the Black Nation and how that identity is being played out in some very self destructive and self defeating behaviors. Learn How to effectively communicate with youth and how to build a solid therapeutic working relationship with them, holding attention through supportive programming by learning how to use video presentations in prevention education workshops. Participants will gain an understanding of the dynamics of the helping relationship and learn to respond to the client as a whole person. Group facilitation skills are designed to help you become more skilled in facilitating educational workshops in your community. Suicide assessment, intervention and prevention skills development. Developing youth outreach teams, preparing community profiles, presenting healthy alternative programs. Call or email us for complete details and how to bring this program to your area.