Focus Area 6: Behavioral Intervention

You'll adopt a mindset and perspective to understand the connection between emotions and behaviors, effectively model managing your own emotions as you teach youth to manage theirs, and diffuse dysregulated behavior and help youth re-regulate.

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De-escalation and Incident Management

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1.5 hour training
Focus Area 6: Behavioral Intervention

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Using De-escalation and Drain-off for Behavior Challenges and Crisis

Free to YIPA Members

1.5 hour training
Focus Area 6: Behavioral Intervention

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Life Space Crisis Intervention in Youth Work

Free to YIPA Members

1 hour training
Focus Area 6: Behavioral Intervention

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Empower Young People Using a Restorative Justice Lens

Free to YIPA Members

1.5 hour training
100% approval rating
Focus Area 6: Behavioral Intervention

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Linda, Listen to Me...Understanding Conflict

Free to YIPA Members

1.5 hour training
96% approval rating
Focus Area 6: Behavioral Intervention

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The Welcome Table: Supporting SEL with Facilitated Play

Free to YIPA Members

1.5 hour training
100% approval rating
Focus Area 6: Behavioral Intervention

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Enhancing the Natural Resilience of Survival-Oriented Youth

Free to YIPA Members

2 hour training
98% approval rating
Focus Area 6: Behavioral Intervention

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An Inside-Out Approach to Navigating Youth Trauma

Free to YIPA Members

1.5 hour training
100% approval rating
Focus Area 6: Behavioral Intervention

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Calming Challenging Behavior

Free to YIPA Members

1.5 hour training
98% approval rating
Focus Area 6: Behavioral Intervention

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On-Demand Webinar

Using Behavior Interventions to Build Self-Regulation

Free to YIPA Members

1.5 hour training
100% approval rating
Focus Area 6: Behavioral Intervention

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Help All Youth Heal: A Journey Through Restorative Practices

Free to YIPA Members

2 hour training
100% approval rating
Focus Area 6: Behavioral Intervention

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Less Stress with Move Mindfully® Interventions

Free to YIPA Members

1.5 hour training
99% approval rating
Focus Area 6: Behavioral Intervention

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Discover the Behavior Intervention Training You Need

You will encounter a wide variety of behavior as a youth worker. Understanding appropriate and effective behavioral interventions is fundamental to fostering positive youth development. You’ll likely have to deal with a variety of behaviors that you’ll find frustrating, difficult, and sometimes very concerning. Knowing how to respond to these behaviors may be the toughest part of the profession. In addition, no one really enjoys interacting with youth when they are oppositional, angry, and sometimes even violent. The Professional Youth Worker trainings will help you be prepared for behavioral interventions.

The Journey of Understanding

YIPA’s Live Online and On-Demand behavioral intervention training for youth workers is your opportunity to better understand how behavior intervention can be used to support our young people. YIPA trainings provide the tools and understanding youth workers need to assist young people in making positive changes in their lives. Our trainings provide theoretical understanding of behavior intervention combined with practical skills that youth workers can use with the communities they support.

You can complete your training live online or on-demand. Each training is designed to be concise, specific, and practical. The knowledge and skills you gain can be put to use immediately in your daily interactions with young people in your program.

The Youth Worker Mindset

Behavior intervention training in youth work, beyond being practical and relevant information, is about helping youth workers adopt the best mindset to be able to handle different behaviors that young people are likely to display. By adopting a new and improved perspective in conjunction with improved knowledge about behaviors that young people exhibit, youth workers can more effectively intervene in a way that helps young people the most.

For more details on the specific course YIPA offers in behavior intervention training, browse our training section or reach us online.

Frequently Asked Questions

By taking our online training, youth workers will gain a solid foundation of knowledge about what causes challenging behaviors in young people. They will gain an understanding of the cognitive framework, and environmental and developmental factors contributing to these types of behaviors. You’ll learn practical skills to successfully navigate through difficult interactions and use them as learning opportunities.

After each of YIPA’s training there is a brief quiz. Once you pass the quiz, you’ll earn a certification of completion. You can present that certificate to your current employer, or with an application to a future employer. Most boards also accept YIPA training as continuing education hours. But, the ultimate showcase of your improved knowledge, skills and confidence in behavioral intervention is through better outcomes for young people!

More Ways to Learn and Grow!

The Art and Science of Youth Work certificate blends technical competency with personal growth strategies so you'll be your best for young people.

The Passionate Youth Worker podcast provides needed inspiration so you and your team are fully present in your service to young people.

The Quick Takes blog offers youth work insights and ideas you can grab and go to stay in the know. Quick Takes for busy youth workers.

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