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Winter Youth Worker Certificate Training
Date: Feb 7, 2012 09:30:00
Details: This five-session, 32-hour training is based on the nationally recognized Advancing Youth Development curriculum. This training provides youth workers with grounding in the youth development approach. They are introduced to an appropriate common language for discussing youth development, and provided with information about locally identified core competencies, childhood and adolescent development, cultural competence, gender and cultural sensitivity, positive youth outcomes, youth stereotyping, healthy relationships and boundaries, youth workers as community resources, and other critical issues.
Training starts on Tuesday, January 17th and occurs every Tuesday until February 14th. Sessions go from 9:30AM-4PM.
Registration for this training opens on Tuesday, December 6th.
Training starts on Tuesday, January 17th and occurs every Tuesday until February 14th. Sessions go from 9:30AM-4PM.
Registration for this training opens on Tuesday, December 6th.
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May 7, 2012 to May 30, 2012
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News
Apr 12, 2012 --- A vital and long-time leader at Health Resources in Action, Laurie Jo Wallace, has been honored with the National Role Model in the Peer Program Field award from National Association of Peer Program Professionals (NAPPP).
Apr 12, 2012 --- Health Resources in Action was recently invited by a government agency in Singapore to conduct a weeklong training session for youth workers, its second such trip in three years.
Apr 4, 2012 --- In a classroom at UMASS Boston, Clark University professor Laurie Ross's workshop, "Dilemmas of Youth Work in Everyday Practice," had reached a high point. About 25 adults were turned toward one another in small groups analyzing case studies that illustrated conflicts they realized they had encountered in their own practice.
Jun 14, 2011 --- At their second annual meeting, youth at the Massachusetts Peer Leadership Institute focused on what lies at the heart of so many issues teens face: managing relationships.
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