Regulating Stress to Revitalize Mental Health
- Blended Interactive Course
- Created in April 2025
- 1 hour training
- FREE for YIPA members
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Your Training Description
Stress is a part of life and can even help improve mental health. No matter what type of youth work you do, you’re likely to face stress often. In this training, you’ll learn about the 3 R’s (Rest, Restoration, and Revitalization) strategies that help reduce harmful stress and boost your mental health, so you can be at your best for yourself and the young people you work with. This training will restore your capacity for compassion, connection, and clarity.
This interactive course blends YIPA-created learning content with recorded video learning segments created by the featured trainer.
Your Learning Objectives
- Learn how your nervous system reacts to stress and how to regulate it
- Recognize the ways that stress can both cause harm and promote healing
- Explore how to create and reinforce boundaries that revitalize your mental health system
Your Trainer
Dr. Jen Clifden (she/her) is an educator, mother of three teenage daughters, and burnout survivor turned professional burnout preventionist and mental health advocate. She serves those who serve others to promote mental health, protect well-being, and prevent burnout and sacrifice syndrome in human-service professionals.
She has 27 years of collective experience as a K-8 teacher, university teacher educator, Program Coordinator for the Minnesota Grow Your Own Teachers (MNGOT) Program-University of Minnesota, mental health and well-being researcher, mindfulness educator, and certified yoga teacher. Her passion is raising awareness of the importance of mental health in our systems of care and communities.
You can learn more about Jen’s work and The Light You Cast trainings at www.drjenclifden.com.
Your Competency Focus Area
Each of YIPA’s trainings are designed around a broad framework of eight youth work competencies. The competency focus of this training is: MENTAL HEALTH BASICS.
Build your understanding of prevalent mental health issues among youth today, learn how to connect youth with appropriate mental health resources, and practice good self-care strategies.
This training will count as 1 CE hour for most boards. Please contact your board directly with questions on submitting. You are encouraged to print or save this training information as a PDF for your records.