Activity/Discussion-Based Workshops

These workshops mix PowerPoint presentations with discussion and activities. As such, participants will be more heavily involved in role playing and discussion - come ready to be engaged!

Group Rewards & Consequences

Eligibility: Anyone may attend; suitable for direct care staff, Program Directors, and anyone interested in strategies for behavioral support.
Cost: Free (active YouthBASE staff/volunteers), $8 (all non-YouthBASE staff/volunteers) - includes dinner.
Facilitator: TBD
Description: This workshop will give participants practical skills related to creating group-level rewards and consequences, including token economies and "group contingencies." Many behavior management trainings leave out strategies for dealing with groups of kids, a critical skillset for any staff member working in after-school or education settings.

Restorative Problem-Solving (RPS)

Eligibility: Anyone may attend; suitable for direct care staff, Program Directors, and anyone interested in strategies for behavioral support.
Prerequisite: Advanced Strategies for Common Behavior
Cost: Free (active YouthBASE staff/volunteers), $8 (all non-YouthBASE staff/volunteers) - includes dinner.
Facilitator: TBD
Description: "Restorative Problem-Solving" (RPS) is a social-problem solving process that helps facilitate skillbuilding, with a central focus on strengthening or rebuilding relationships and community. RPS is a structured process of guiding children through understanding and changing their behavior, both during behavioral incidents and after. This training will introduce the participant to the theoretical foundation of RPS, and teach the practical steps to implementing this process in community-based youth-serving organizations.

Rewards & Consequences

Eligibility: Anyone may attend; suitable for direct care staff, Program Directors, and anyone interested in strategies for behavioral support.
Cost: Free (active YouthBASE staff/volunteers), $8 (all non-YouthBASE staff/volunteers) - includes dinner.
Facilitator: TBD
Description: There are two general categories of behavior support strategies: skillbuilding and motivational strategies. This training will introduce participants to general motivational strategies for behavior support. In other words, assuming kids know how to behave, how do you get them to do what they know? This presentation will actively engage participants in practicing the creation of individual rewards and consequences to motivate children's positive behavior.

Social Skills Training

Eligibility: Anyone may attend; suitable for direct care staff, Program Directors, and anyone interested in strategies for behavioral support.
Cost: Free (active YouthBASE staff/volunteers), $8 (all non-YouthBASE staff/volunteers) - includes dinner.
Facilitator: TBD
Description: There are two general categories of behavior support strategies: skillbuilding and motivational strategies. This training will introduce participants to the four steps of skillbuilding, or social skills training. In addition, participants will learn strategies to "smooth" social skills training or make it extremely effective. Participants will be asked to actively be engaged by modeling social skills training lessons and providing feedback to peers related to their demonstrations.

General Workshop Descriptions

ADHD: Impact & Intervention

Eligibility: Anyone may attend; suitable for direct care staff, Program Directors, and anyone interested in strategies for behavioral support.
Cost: Free (active YouthBASE staff/volunteers), $25 (all non-YouthBASE staff/volunteers)
Facilitator: TBD
Description: This workshop will introduce participants to current theory and practical implications surrounding the increasing psychological phenomenon called ADHD. The disorder is more than just hyperactivity and inattention, affecting several areas of executive functioning, social interaction, emotionality, and more. Current intervention research will be explored, and practical intervention strategies discussed.

Advanced Strategies for Behavior Support

Eligibility: Anyone may attend; suitable for direct care staff, Program Directors, and anyone interested in strategies for behavioral support.
Cost: Free (active YouthBASE staff/volunteers), $25 (all non-YouthBASE staff/volunteers)
Facilitator: TBD
Description: This session will introduce participants to specific, step-by-step procedures for dealing with common behavior problems with elementary-aged children experienced in community-based settings.

Coaching Session

Eligibility: YouthBASE staff & volunteers
Cost: Free
Facilitator: TBD
Description: Have a question or idea about behavior support, but not finding the time during BASE Town to share? Everyone is invited to attend one or more of our monthly Coaching Sessions. These sessions, facilitated by YouthBASE staff, are directed by the topics and ideas brought up by session participants. These are conversation/discussion oriented sessions, with no prior agenda set by the facilitator.

Group Behavior Management Strategies

Eligibility: Anyone may attend; suitable for direct care staff, Program Directors, and anyone interested in strategies for group behavioral support.
Cost: Free (active YouthBASE staff/volunteers), $15 (all non-YouthBASE staff/volunteers)
Facilitator: TBD
Description: Many behavior management trainings focus on individual children, leaving after-school and child care staff without practical strategies for dealing with behavior on a group level. When possible, it's easier to use one strategy with 15 kids than to use 15 different strategies with 15 different kids. From token economies to group contingencies, there are many effective and - as importantly - efficient behavior management strategies that staff can use with groups of children, reducing behavior problems across the program and allowing staff to focus more energy on their creative and enriching activities.

Individual Behavior Support Strategies

Eligibility: Anyone may attend; suitable for direct care staff, Program Directors, and anyone interested in learning effective individual behavior support strategies for children with challenging behavior.
Cost: Free (active YouthBASE staff/volunteers), $25 (all non-YouthBASE staff/volunteers)
Facilitator: TBD
Description: This introductory training provides participants with a global overview of individual behavior support, from characteristics of effective staff to reinforcement strategies. This workshop will start off focusing on therapeutic interactions with children - ways of interacting that promote behavioral, social, & emotional growth - from personal characteristics of staff to therapeutic limit-setting. Then, the workshop will present effective behavior management strategies for dealing with moment-to-moment behavior problems. Finally, the workshop moves into behavior modification or behavior change strategies, introducing topics such as contingency management and effective debriefing strategies.

Individual Support Planning

Eligibility: Anyone may attend; suitable for direct care staff, Program Directors, and anyone interested in creating more specific strategies for individual children with difficult behavior. Ideally, participants would have previously attended the Individual Behavior Support Strategies as well as Group Behavior Support Strategies trainings offered by YouthBASE, and have previous experience with working with children with challenging behavior.
Target Audience: This workshop equips staff to create individual behavior plans for children with more difficult behavior. As such, this workshop is targeted toward staff/programs that already have effective behavior management strategies in place, and toward staff/programs who have sufficient non-program time to devote to planning behavior support strategies together.
Cost: Free (active YouthBASE staff/volunteers), $15 (all non-YouthBASE staff/volunteers)
Facilitator: TBD
Description: The focus of this workshop is to teach the YouthBASE Individual Support Planning process, which draws from positive behavior support planning research and techniques. This process is used to systematically look at children's behavior and surrounding environmental variables to craft individualized behavior support strategies for children with challenging behavior. This training will review/highlight behavioral assessment procedures, teach the general individual support planning process, and include a case study allowing the training group to practice the individual support planning process. It should be noted that this training does not teach specific behavioral assessment techniques or interventions - rather, this training helps the participant put together these pieces in a strategic way.
 

Introduction to Behavior Support

Eligibility: Anyone may attend; suitable for direct care staff, Program Directors, and anyone interested in strategies for behavioral support.
Cost: Free (active YouthBASE staff/volunteers), $25 (all non-YouthBASE staff/volunteers)
Facilitator: TBD
Description: This session will introduce participant's to the YouthBASE Behavior Support Model, which describes components of our behavior support program ranging from values & beliefs about behavior support to specific behavior management strategies we use on a daily basis.

Introduction to YouthBUCKs

Eligibility: Any active YouthBASE volunteer or staff member, especially those interested in becoming a Lead Counselor.
Prerequisite: Advanced Strategies for Common Behavior
Cost: Free (active YouthBASE staff/volunteers)
Facilitator: TBD
Description: The focus of this training will be to introduce the YouthBUCKs monitoring system, which is used to record behavior of children in YouthBASE, and to communicate behavioral performance to children, families, schools, and staff. Participants will learn how to record YouthBUCKs, and interpret YouthBUCKs information generated by the system.

New Volunteer Orientation

Eligibility: Any individuals who have been approved to volunteer with YouthBASE.
Cost: Free (active YouthBASE staff/volunteers)
Facilitator: TBD
Description: This session will introduce new volunteers to YouthBASE, including our history and programs, as well as policies, procedures, & expectations for volunteering with the organization.

Restorative Problem-Solving (RPS)

Eligibility: Anyone may attend; suitable for direct care staff, Program Directors, and anyone interested in strategies for behavioral support.
Prerequisite: Advanced Strategies for Common Behavior
Cost: Free (active YouthBASE staff/volunteers), $25 (all non-YouthBASE staff/volunteers)
Facilitator: TBD
Description: "Restorative Problem-Solving" (RPS) is a social-problem solving process that helps facilitate skillbuilding, with a central focus on strengthening or rebuilding relationships and community. RPS is a structured process of guiding children through understanding and changing their behavior, both during behavioral incidents and after. This training will introduce the participant to the theoretical foundation of RPS, and teach the practical steps to implementing this process in community-based youth-serving organizations.

Solution-Focused Brief Counseling: A Different Approach to Behavior Change

Eligibility: Anyone may attend; suitable for direct care staff, Program Directors, and anyone interested in strategies for behavioral support.
Cost: Free (active YouthBASE staff/volunteers), $25 (all non-YouthBASE staff/volunteers)
Facilitator: TBD
Description: This training will present the amazingly simple yet powerful process of "Solution-Focused Brief Counseling," particularly as applied to after-school staff and volunteers. Specifically, participants will learn how to shift from talking to kids about their problem behavior, to talking with kids about what they do RIGHT. By identifying goals, highlighting already existing positive behavior, and "cheerleading" kids toward incremental successes, the tone of interaction between adults and children changes, children feel more confident, and behavior changes. Register at www.youth-base.org.

To register for one of the training sessions above, complete and submit the form below. Submitting the form below does not gaurantee registration status. We will be in contact shortly to confirm registration status. All payments (cash or check only) are due by the start of the training session. Deadline to register is the Tuesday before the training.

A small cost is associated with most workshops as a means of off-setting expenses incurred by preparing, delivering, and hosting workshops. However, for individuals who may be deterred from attending based on cost, we offer a scholarship program through which the cost of any workshop can be reduced or waived based on request and YouthBASE approval.

In order to save paper and waste, YouthBASE does not print most training materials (e.g., PowerPoints). However, training materials are posted online prior to the day of training, and may be accessed or printed by the workshop participant. In addition, wireless internet is available, allowing participants to use their laptops for downloading workshop materials and notetaking.