Help All Youth Heal: A Journey Through Restorative Practices

Your Course Description

Your Competency Focus Area

Behavioral Intervention

Shifting to a restorative framework improves your interventions and give youth tools they can use in spaces that aren’t set up to empower them.
You’ll have a stronger foundation for more effective communication and be better prepared to deal with your own discomfort, particularly in conflict situations.
Learning the basics of restorative practices is vital to building systemic equity. You’ll develop plans for addressing the behavior challenges that bring you the most discomfort in your daily work. You’ll gain tools to help youth believe in their capacity, self-worth, and voice.

Your Learning Objectives

Explore the basic elements of restorative practices
Understand each element of the Restorative Practices Continuum and why they are important to system-wide equity in discipline
Learn how to use context to determine which restorative practice(s), at minimum, should be applied to address particular behavior challenges
Examine what adult or youth behavior challenges give you the greatest amount of discomfort to address
Understand how past and present culture, politics, and policy inform why restorative work is so vital today

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

Many youth organizations are faced with limits and need support to address the complex and diverse needs of our children. The work can be emotionally taxing. Marius comes alongside leaders to:

Strengthen resilience and solve difficult problems.

Grow trust and improve culture.

Create a blueprint to empower the next generation of leaders.

Share tools to upskill.

Motivate teams to work with passion and innovation.

Set up frameworks to improve organizational health.

Marius has worked with a number of clients including the YWCA, YMCA, Boys and Girls Club, Treehouse, and Big Brothers Big Sisters. With 20+ years of experience in education and professional development and certifications in restorative practices, he’s excited to partner and eliminate invisible narratives hindering your progress. Schedule a free 60-min consultation so Marius can meet you, discuss your circumstances, and see if he has a solution that works for you.