A Model for Collaborative Engagement with Young People
Your Course Description
The Field of Youth Work
- Being an adult in a young person’s life is an awesome responsibility and a rewarding experience. It can also be difficult, especially when young people act out or behave in challenging ways.
- Your task is to honor young people having agency over their beliefs, feelings, bodies, relationships, words, and goals. The Democratic Youth Engagement (DYE) model encourages adults working with young people to step beyond a “fix the kid” approach.
- This training will give you space to explore the values and virtues of democratically engaging with young people.
Your Learning Objectives
- Learn the values and virtue of democratically engaging with young people
- Explore creative collaboration approaches for working with young people
- Strengthen your capacity to model healthy adult behavior for young people
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

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Your Skill-Building Objectives
Relationship Building
Building trust through caring relationships
Youth Empowerment
Providing developmentally appropriate support
What YIPA members are saying
Great presenter with such wonderful personal examples.
Really appreciate all the tidbits of wisdom Adam shared about framing my mindset while working with youth.
Good pace with clarity and patience. I enjoyed that he used some humor and real life experiences/scenarios that are quite relatable to help me better understand his presentation.