Regulating Stress to Revitalize Mental Health

Your Course Description

Mental Health Basics
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  • 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. You'll 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 Course Details

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  • Icon Youth Worker Track
  • Icon This training will count as 1 CE hour for most boards. Please contact your board directly with questions on submitting. Course details for CE submissions provided.

Your Trainer

Reviewer Photo Dr. Jennifer Clifden has lived and witnessed the toll burnout takes on those who give tirelessly. She guides human-service professionals to shift from self-sacrifice to self-healing, transforming the pressures of their calling into personal strengths and using burnout as a pathway for growth. With a deep passion for preventing the harmful effects of compassion fatigue and helping retain those called to healing and helping professions, Jen works to safeguard the well-being of the workforce our youth and communities depend on. Drawing on 29 years as a K–8 teacher, university teacher educator, mental health researcher, yoga instructor, and mother of three, she designs and delivers on-demand trainings, transformative on-site professional development, energizing keynotes, and restorative community practice circles that draw on the science of thriving to rebuild connection, reinforce personal power, and foster self-healing. Jen shows caregivers how their capacity to care can become a source of healing, growth, and thriving, not depletion. Learn more at www.drjenclifden.com.
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Your Skill-Building Objectives

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Self-Care

Prioritizing well-being to give your best

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Emotional Regulation

Helping young people to manage emotions

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Mental Health Awareness

Recognizing and responding to mental health concerns

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Resilience Building

Teaching coping strategies to overcome barriers

What YIPA members are saying

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The skill will help me in my work with youth and in my personal life.

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I enjoyed learning about ways to manage stress, recognize my physical responses, and how to move forward in my work with supports and boundaries in place.

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I really enjoy these interactive-style trainings.