Innovation in Children and Youth Programming: Implementing a Progressive SMART Goal Approach – Virtual – September 2020

Audience: KCSDV Member Program and Staff

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This interactive training will include planning, designing, and adapting children and youth programming to the needs of children and youth impacted by domestic violence. Advocates will be guided through a three part progressive children and youth programming implementation tool to build resiliency-based programming. With immersion into technical assistance deep dive sessions with KCSDV Child and Youth Project Staff, Advocates will be able to design and create implementation stages to build children and youth programming. As part of this training, children and youth programming promising practices adaptations as a result of the COVID-19 public health emergency will be explored.

This virtual skills-based training series on children and youth programming will consist of three virtual training sessions for a total of 4.5 hours, and 3.5 hours independent study. Directions for independent study of this training will be sent to participants in a logistics email one week before the training, to include virtual training login information. It is critical that advocates attend all sessions, as each session builds off the skills-based work in the previous session. Due to the interactive, skills-based nature of this training series, participants will need to have access to and utilize a web camera throughout each training session. Space is limited, so register soon! This training has a maximum capacity of 30 participants to accommodate technical assistance deep dive sessions.

As a result of this training, participants will be able to:

• Practice utilizing implementation tools to build resiliency-based children and youth programming.
• Utilize tools, resources, and curricula for supporting children and youth exposed to domestic violence.
• Implement strategies and activities for promoting a positive bond between children and their non-abusing parent.
• Implement parent-child advocacy programming adaptations as a result of the COVID-19 public health emergency.

This training was made possible by Grant Number 90EV0446 from the Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Family and Youth Services Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Total Training Hours: 8