Using De-escalation and Drain-off for Behavior Challenges and Crisis

Your Course Description

Your Competency Focus Area

Behavioral Intervention

When you’re challenged by youth behaviors, in the moment you may have a lot of thoughts and feelings about the young person.
Using the foundations of Life Space Crisis Intervention (LSCI) as a framework, you can reshape the way you think about challenging behaviors through an understanding of what underlies them in the first place. Join us to gain de-escalation and behavior prevention strategies.
Take time to reflect on strategies you can use to keep yourself calm and collected while addressing challenging behavior or crises.

Your Learning Objectives

Learn about the Conflict Cycle Paradigm™ to understand what motivates behavior and your role in supporting youth
Build awareness of how neuroanatomy and trauma affect behaviors
Gain skills that can be useful in de-escalating challenging behavior
Recognize and reflect on personal hot buttons and how you can use those emotional signals to reframe your thoughts to more positively interact with young people
Identify behavior support strategies and tools that help prevent or reduce behavior challenges

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.

Your Trainer

Angie Erickson started in the field of youth work in the early 2000s as a volunteer in high school. After college, Angie worked with the YWCA Minneapolis Girls Inc. programs for six years, gaining experience in program development and staff training. While it was a dream job, an opportunity to relocate to northern Minnesota came in 2017. Now, as Director of Outreach at North Homes Children and Family Services in Grand Rapids, MN, Angie wears a number of hats and enjoys a wide variety of activities within her role. Angie is a high ropes course facilitator, oversees marketing and their agency internship program, is developing a community advisory board, and supports internal staff trainings.

In her spare time, Angie loves to play drums and go exploring with her family. She is active in her community and volunteers on the Itasca County Family YMCA board as well as the City of Grand Rapids Human Rights Commission. She also loves to read.