Description of Workshops
Positive Alternatives – 3 or 6 Hours
This training will give in-depth examples of activities that can be used as positive alternatives to alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs for teens, and will also provide time for participants to generate ideas for new activities.
The Power of Calm: Preventing and Treating Trauma
This workshop focuses on learning skills for calming our sensations, so we can achieve a state of calm regardless of the situation.
Power Struggles vs. Setting Limits
A workshop for superheroes aimed to educate that good will prevail over evil.
Practical Science: The Compassionate Schools & Communities Movements
This workshop uses videos to provide examples of how schools and communities can improve youth behavior, attention, grades, and success, regardless of what is happening in their homes and neighborhoods.
Presentation Skills: Presentation, Practice, and Passion
This workshop teaches presentation skills that are particularly applicable to the needs of the prevention professional.
The Resilient Organization
This workshop teaches leaders to resiliently face reality with courage, find meaning in hardship, and improvise when faced with seemingly impossible obstacles.
Risk & Protective Factors = Building Resiliency
This workshop will look in depth at the definitions of Risk Factors, Protective Factors and Resiliency, and how these approaches play out in the work we do with the populations we serve.
Social Emotional Learning (SEL): For You and Those You Serve
This workshop focuses on activities adults learn first for themselves and then teach the children, youth, and families they serve to find their own grounded place.
Strategies for Strengthening Families
In this workshop participants will learn what strong families need, and what protective factors, family assets, and approaches make up strong families as seen in a variety of research studies.
Strengthening Children and Families Through Play & Laughter
Participants of this workshop will be given the opportunity to learn about and engage in activities that can be used with/taught to families that are low to no cost.