This session summarises and redefines ”strengths-based” practice, builds upon existing strengths-focused and mana-enhancing approaches, offers ways of reframing your language, provides skills and frameworks for creating change and hope with young people.
Learning in Lockdown topics are: Learnings from the COVID crisis we can take into the future of youth work; Best practices for engaging young people online; Cultural competencies in youth work; Applying lessons of a successful drop-in to the online world.
We will hear from experts in the fields of youth participation, indigenous youth and digital youth work, as well as a panel discussion on the state of the youth sector with the CEOs and Directors of 5 peak bodies for youth work.
This resource outlines treatment recommendations for youth with co-existing (mental health and substance use) problems (or CEP), and guides clinicians working with youth with CEP. It's written for primary care and specialist mental health and AOD services.
This presentation is on Supporting Parents Healthy Children implementation and how one of two specific interventions (Single Session Family Consultation and the 5-Step Method) ‘fit’ within a Choice and Partnership Approach (CAPA) service delivery.
The e-module series includes: Childhood Trauma: Impact on Development and Behaviour; Trauma-informed Care for Caregivers; Trauma-informed Care for the Children's Workforce; Self-care in Trauma-informed Organisations.
This webinar discusses how the Choice and Partnership Approach can enable organisations and systems to become more trauma-informed when responding to community trauma and provide practitioners with a framework to support whānau experiencing trauma.
This presentation over views online tools Sparx, Aroha chat box and Quest Te Whitianga and how these can be used in practice with young people and whānau
Foundations in ICAMH course provides foundational learning in infant, child and youth mental health and working with whānau. It aims to upskill workers in screening and brief intervention work with young people with AOD issues.
Understanding disordered eaitng and eating disorders; Thinking about eating - sorting out fact from fiction; Working with family/whānau; Treatment options
Dr Sue Bagshaw shares insights on the developing brain of young people, Psychologist Simi Desor shares tools to support positive youth development in uncertain times and Dr. Annie Horton shares research relating to the wellbeing of young people today.
This workshop discusses research about suicide and provides tools to identify people who may be suicidal. Also covered: Sleep deprivation as a risk for suicide, childhood and inter-generational trauma, cluster effect, same day crisis and instant suicides.
This session explores psychosis - What is psychosis, Psychosis experiences in children and adolescent, intervention, why does psychosis develop? Recovery and wellbeing following psychosis, early intervention for first episode psychosis
This workshop explores the importance of sleep and looks at some basic sleep hygiene and sleep difficulty interventions.
If you want to know what causes young people to “lose their temper” become angry or violent, what the stages are that lead up to an angry outburst, and how to deescalate the situation as quickly as possible, you need to attend this workshop.
Foundations in ICAMH explores infant, child, youth mental health and working with whānau. The 4 modules: Core Concepts/Infant Mental Health; Child Mental Health; Youth Mental Health; Supporting Infant Wellbeing, Children, Young People and Whānau.
Psychological First Aid is a ‘best practice’ approach to providing emotional and practical support to anyone in distress.This webinar includes: What PFA is; Helping with the 5 elements relating to COVID-19; The Action Principles of LOOK, LISTEN, LINK.
Topics covered (part 1):• Understanding what ADHD is and how it presents in the child – how the world works for these children• Support strategies for working with the ADHD child• Tailoring your environment to prevent the frustration and anxiety build up.
Topics module 1- What is autism?- A nonlinear spectrum- Executive functioning- Theory of Mind- Managing autism and anxiety. Topics module 2- Sensory difficulties – adjusting the environment to be autism friendly- Stimming- Meltdowns vs tantrums
Learn practical strategies for helping teens with ADHD to succeed in school. Topics covered: ADHD and changes in the teenage brain, medication, strategies for positive change, dealing with emotions, adjusting our expectations, allowing for independence
Based on actual experiences with young people who have been extremely excited, rowdy, defiant and inspiring, this workshop reframes how we respond to behaviours that challenge us, with a fundamentally strengths-based approach.
This talk focusses on understanding the stress response system in young people, recognising environments that activate the stress response system and the ongoing effects and positively effecting behaviour change and calm in young people
This course will give you more confidence and ideas when working with physically disabled people. Topics covered: STEP model; Ways to include; Inclusion scenarios; Social v medical model; Communication and Terminology.
This session explores practical considerations for using Zoom effectively, using breakout groups, polls and other techniques for discussion, the importance of chat and reactions features and the benefits of Zoom vs Microsoft Teams and other platforms.
This training gives an overview of E-therapies, guidelines for use and where SPARX fits clinically, who benefits from SPARX, depression in adolescence: prevalence rates, barriers to care, brief screening and monitoring of outcome and evidence behind SPARX.
Delivered with honesty, sensitivity, and sometimes humour, Francis discusses psycho-therapeutic techniques that can pull young people back from the brink. It focuses on what you can do to make a difference.
This presentation describes research on international responses to COVID-19 for the care and protection of children and young people.
This training explores the importance of fostering resilience in young people. Practical skills are shared through 3 activities within resilience training 1. Make Me Resilient, 2. Real Stress Management Skills, 3. Making Difficult Conversations Easier.
Learn about the importance of Attachment, how to identify patterns in children and develop a framework for working with Attachment needs in practice. Also emphasised is the need for reflective practice in relation to Attachment Theory principles.
In this session we consider the complex interplay of biological and environmental processes which contribute to the emergence, progression and improvement of mental health issues in adolescence.
This webinar covers the relationship between sleep and wellbeing, bullying, metal illness, suicide, memory, self-esteem. IIt also looks at different sleeping patterns and problems and provides strategies to teach young people to sleep better.
Building on a model of youth wellbeing developed during a study of NZ High School students, this webinar explores different angles people working with and for young people can take are explored to support healthy development and wellbeing.
Simi and Annie explore positive youth development in times of uncertainty, and insights about current research on what wellbeing for young people means. They also provide a framework for youth wellbeing and strategies to support young people's wellbeing
This workshop will brainstorm ideas for how youth workers can find strength and hope for the challenges after lockdown and ideas for assisting young people they work with do the same.
This workshop is intended to develop supervision skills and covers the roles and functions of supervision, guiding reflective conversation, questioning techniques, skills for balancing support and challenge, reflection and future development