Talking Healthy Choices with Young People

Your Course Description

Your Competency Focus Area

Communications

Enhance your ability to engage with young people on healthy choices through effective listening. Learn to go beyond simply offering advice, and instead, create an atmosphere for growth by building self-awareness.
Explore tools and concepts of active listening, supported by real youth work stories and experiences. Learn practical strategies to connect and communicate with young people about healthy choices.
Gain insights to recognize and address challenges, especially for youth of color, as you empower them to expand their perspectives and make informed decisions about self-care.

Your Learning Objectives

Understand how to connect and talk with youth about making healthy choices
Improve your active listening skills to understand what youth are communicating verbally and non-verbally
Explore tools for helping young people recognize if their thinking is clear and unbiased or attached to old learnings and assumptions
Consider barriers and challenges youth might encounter when trying to make healthy choices

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

Sandy Naughton has been a Health Educator for 40 years with Health Start, now a program of Minnesota Community Care which operates 10 School Based Healthcare Clinics in Saint Paul schools. Sandy is currently the Manager of Health Promotion for MCC and continues as a Health Educator teaching Health and Human Sexuality in classrooms, providing one to one Health Education in SBCs and also facilitating Support Groups. Sandy co-authored Human Sexuality: Values and Choices, Understanding Sexuality and is currently working on a new curriculum. She is a Certified Childbirth Educator and is trained in Health Realization (now known as The Three Principles). Sandy is trained in Yoga Calm and has practiced yoga for longer than she can remember. She spends her work days with brave, caring, and brilliant people that teach her every day.

Connie Sheehan is the owner of PUSH Fitness, a St Paul based fitness center geared toward women of color. Connie has a bachelor’s degree in education and has worked in corporate for over 20 years. Connie is a certified personal trainer and holds numerous fitness certifications. She has recently worked with Minnesota Community Care as a personal trainer for students of color that deal with a variety of health issues. She brings a wealth of experience in communicating with youth. Her mission is to build a powerful sense of community and nourish healthy lifestyle changes, specifically for people of color, while providing motivation for people to move their bodies.