Design Thinking for Dynamic Youth Work
Your Course Description
Communications
- Design thinking is a process that broadens your perspective and helps you create better solutions no matter the type of problem.
- By incorporating design thinking into your youth work, you’ll be able to explore new alternatives and create options for your young people.
- This process leads to greater collaboration and solutions that recognize the needs, context, and culture of everyone involved, encouraging youth to be open-minded and try new things. Learn how to communicate with youth in ways that promote intrinsic motivation.
Your Learning Objectives
- Learn the benefits of bringing the elements of design thinking to your youth work
- Practice specific engagement and communication strategies that promote intrinsic motivation in youth
- Apply design thinking strategies to reframe your work with youth and to challenge assumptions
- Explore how reframing the way you do your work can be a form of self-care
Your Course Details
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Completion Certificate
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Youth Worker Track
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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.
Your Trainer
Miriam Itzkowitz (she/her) is the Director of Trauma-Informed Care for the Institute to Transform Child Protection at Mitchell Hamline School of Law. In this role, Miriam develops and trains on best practices at the intersection of legal services and trauma-responsive care. She also serves as the social work supervisor for graduate social work students to link theory and practice and to serve the clients represented through ITCP Child Protection Clinic. Miriam has clinical experience counseling adults and adolescents in clinical, home, and school settings. In her private practice, Miriam uses an eclectic approach to individual and couples therapy, incorporating cognitive, creative, and holistic techniques to assist clients in sustaining authentic identities, coping with difficulties, and overcoming trauma. She received her BA from Grinnell College and her MSW from the University of Minnesota School of Social Work. 
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Your Skill-Building Objectives
Communication
Listening and speaking to deeply connect
Inclusion
Fostering belonging in all young people
Self-Care
Prioritizing well-being to give your best
What YIPA members are saying
Great training both in terms of content and presenter's knowledge of subject
Awesome tools and information to help me improve myself as a youth worker and for my personal life.
This training was STELLAR! Sincerely, what great quality, engagement, and teaching. Excellent presenter and great teacher. Truly in the spirit of meaningful youth work
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