Supporting Youth in Life Transitions, Career Exploration, and Workforce Navigation
Your Course Description
Youth Development
- Young people will encounter many life transition points as they develop. Facing those transitions, a young person can feel excited and scared all at the same time.
- They need confidence to explore options and opt into the workforce in ways that work for them. This training is relevant to anyone working with middle school and high school aged youth.
- You'll learn to provide non-judgmental support, share valuable resources, and tackle common challenges, including addressing inequities in underserved communities.
Your Learning Objectives
- Identify resources for exploring career pathways for all ages
- Learn conversation starters and probing questions to help youth develop critical thinking in the workforce
- Be able to summarize action planning strategies to support transitional phases for young people
- Explore common pitfalls young people experience in the workforce or pathway exploration
Your Course Details
- Completion Certificate
- Youth Worker Track
- This training will count as 1.5 CE hours for most boards. Please contact your board directly with questions on submitting. Course details for CE submissions provided.
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Your Skill-Building Objectives
Youth Development
Inspiring young people to thrive
Communication
Listening and speaking to deeply connect
What YIPA members are saying
Great engagement & real life examples! Love the toolkit so much!
The content of the presentation, but also the resources shared and web links to further our work were SO helpful.
I loved this training and was able to take away many different new approaches when it comes to goal setting with the youth I work with.