This training is presented by The Professional Youth Worker. It's our mission to help you and your team build your skills and boost your passion for serving young people. Join us!
Empower Young People Using a Restorative Justice Lens
- On-Demand Webinar
- Recorded on Thursday, March 30, 2023
- 1.5 hour training
- FREE for YIPA members
- $30 for non-YIPA members
- 100% approval rating
- Not a member? Annual membership is ridiculously affordable. Join now or learn more.
Learners' Own Words
"I learned some new things to bring to my program and staff!"
"You both laid out the information in a new way for me that really helped me think of ways to bring it back to my staff and youth!"
"Loved the word clouds!"
Your Training Description
Your Learning Objectives
- Identify the basics of Restorative Justice philosophy
- Recognize key components of Restorative Justice practice
- Consider systemic barriers that affect youth work
- Explore what Restorative Justice practice can look like in various youth work settings
- Learn how to use internal process questions to develop a restorative mindset for working with young people
Your Trainers
Cynthia Prosek has over 20 years of restorative justice practice. As executive director of Restorative Justice Community Action (RJCA), Cynthia leads a trajectory of growth, expanding services and deepening community engagement in restorative justice practices. She draws on the knowledge and wisdom of the community, collaborating with a network of volunteers, leaders, and agencies for a strong, vibrant, and diverse Twin Cities community. Cynthia promotes and helps to implement new programming from a lens of race equity as the means to transform the criminal legal system and redefining public safety as rooted in community.
Jaime Gjerdingen (jer-di-gen) is attending the University of Minnesota to earn her Master of Social Work (MSW). She is currently an intern with Restorative Justice Community Action (RJCA). Jaime lives in St. Paul with her partner, three kids, and two cats. As an intern with RJCA, Jaime has been delightfully surprised by how consistently relationships between people have been repaired or strengthened through the Restorative Justice process, especially between parents and their kids, as well as those harmed and those who caused harm.
Your Competency Focus Area
Each of YIPA’s trainings are designed around a broad framework of eight youth work competencies. The competency focus of this training is: BEHAVIORAL INTERVENTION.
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.
Your Training Details
- On-Demand Webinar
- Recorded on Thursday, March 30, 2023
- 1.5 hour training
- FREE for YIPA members
- $30 for non-YIPA members
- 100% approval rating
- Not a member? Annual membership is ridiculously affordable. Join now or learn more.
This training will count as 1.5 CE hours for most boards. Please contact your board directly with questions on submitting. You are encouraged to print or save this training information as a PDF for your records.