Supporting Effective Youth-Adult Partnerships

Your Course Description

Your Competency Focus Area

Communications

Adults don’t often consider the effect of power in their interactions with youth but youth are almost always acutely aware, and uniquely affected.
In that gap, there is tremendous potential for better outcomes, genuine trust, positive youth development, and meaningful systemic change.
The key is in learning to implement effective youth-adult youth through the lens of youth-adult partnerships. Learn a framework for sharing power appropriately and strategies for implementing a youth-adult partnership approach in your programs.

Your Learning Objectives

Learn how youth-adult partnerships positively impact youth development
Learn how to share power in your work with young people
Adapt your youth work to incorporate an understanding of power dynamics so you can implement effective youth-adult partnerships
Gain effective communication and relationship management skills to inform, empower, and engage 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

Brandon Jones is the Executive Director of the Minnesota Association for Children’s Mental Health. He is also a consultant with expertise in Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), Historical and Intergenerational trauma, Social/Emotional Intelligence (EQ), Leadership, and Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI). He brings the perspective of his own lived experience of surviving childhood in a home of domestic violence and other forms of trauma. Brandon holds a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Minnesota, a Masters in Community Psychology from Metropolitan State University, and a Masters in Psychotherapy (MFT) from Adler Graduate School. Brandon is also a 2013 Bush Foundation Leadership Fellow. He lives by the motto “Live life with Purpose, on Purpose.”