Many of the topics below are available for virtual training delivery and to request for free with our 2019 cohort of Apprentice Trainers through the end of September. Free trainings are dependent on Trainer availability in Sacramento, the Bay Area, Fresno, Los Angeles, and other select areas. Trainings are available on a low-cost fee-basis with CalSAC Certified Trainers across California. Read more about the ways in which we are supporting mental health and wellness with staff and the young people they serve.
Visit our Virtual Training page to view all available virtual trainings and to request a training for your agency!
Awareness-Building Modules
During this module, participants will understand the connection between our internal brain function and the behaviors we observe in programs as well as understand the impact stress and trauma has on a young person.
During module, participants will understand the importance of protective factors and how their practices in program support the mental health and wellness of youth.
Promising Practices
During module, participants will explore the importance of creating safety in their program for young people and how their program promotes emotional and physical safety.
During this module, participants will gain an understanding of when a young person’s mental health needs require professional support, explore resources in their community and create an action plan to cultivate partnerships with resources in their community.
Cultivating Social-Emotional Learning Skills
This session will introduce participants to social-emotional skills and their relationship to the California Quality Standards for Expanded Learning Programs. Participants will be able to articulate what social-emotional skills look like in youth and the California Quality Standards for Expanded Learning Programs that contribute to the skill development in youth.
During this module, participants will explore program practices that support social-emotional and character skill development. Participants will use their results from a self-reflection tool to identify actions they can take to strengthen their abilities to support social-emotional and character skill development.
Also available as an eLearning training.
Note: Participants must complete the Expanded Learning 360/365 self-reflection before coming to the training.
During this module, participants will learn about how young people’s responses affect personal emotion and behavior, how to introduce and implement group agreements, and share current strategies and resources to support the development of young people’s self-awareness and self-management skills.
During this module, participants will learn about how culturally grounded beliefs and background affect our practice with youth, how to help raise our awareness of those factors, and share current strategies and resources to support the development young people’s social-awareness and interpersonal skills.
During this module, participants will learn about what self-efficacy and growth mindset are, explore our own mindset and the potential impact it has on youth, and share current strategies and resources to support the development young people’s growth mindset and self-efficacy.
Building Safe and Supportive Relationships with Children and Youth
This module supports participants in exploring how to build positive, meaningful relationship with children and youth, in order to plan programs that best meet their needs and support the development of social-emotional skills and character building.
During this training, participants will learn about effective and dynamic communication tools, strategies to check for understanding, and activities that engage young people in communication to support their social-emotional development and character building.
During this training, participants will learn about the qualities of healthy self-esteem and some strategies for supporting young people as they develop positive self-esteem.
This training will give participants an understanding of the importance of working with children/youth to develop interpersonal skills, social awareness and teach them practical strategies for supporting this development.
Restorative Behavior Guidance Practices
This training will provide participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to prevent unwanted behavior by meeting the physical and social-emotional needs of children and youth before they act out.
Participants will gain skills for effective supervision of children/ youth by examining expected outcomes of working with children/youth, using tools for communicating expectations and applying techniques for dealing with problem behaviors.
Building Trust with Families
During this training, participants will explore what it means to build authentic relationships with families, practice the foundational the skills needed to do this and explore biases that might prohibit them from developing authentic relationships with families.
During this training, participants will gain a deeper understanding of human needs and the needs of their families and begin fostering empathy for their families.
During this training, participants will explore what it means to center belonging at the heart of their family engagement and strategies to implement in their program to create a sense of belonging for families.