Training Update: Learn from Our Experts

Posted Dec 9, 2021, By Mindi Wisman

Youth Catalytics’ Director of Training Cindy Carraway-Wilson has decades of experience leading professional development trainings in the child and youth care services sector. Today we highlight one of her upcoming educational opportunities.

Child and Youth Care Foundations

Join Cindy and co-trainers for the Academy for Competent Youth Work’s Child and Youth Care Foundations Course. This comprehensive 42 hour online training is designed to give practitioners the essential knowledge and skills they need to improve the life chances for young people and set them up for success. The course begins with a focus on the profession itself, which includes learning the required competencies for certification, best practices, and code of ethics. Other course modules include: relationship development skills, communication techniques, the impact of trauma, and how to support optimal brain development for all young people.

Why Join? When practitioners begin this course, they often describe feeling isolated in doing the hard work of engaging young people. By the time they finish the course they have not only developed relationships with their classmates, but recognize that they are not alone in this work—they are part of something much bigger—a profession that is practiced around the world. The knowledge, skills, and connections they take from participating in this course additionally leads them to share that feeling of belonging and connection with young people. Child and Youth Care Practitioners are the field’s most essential workers, what they do day-in and day-out is hard, yet powerful. They finish the course with this realization confirmed.

Cindy’s next CYC Foundations Course will be held January 25, 2022; click here to register.

And… there’s still time to complete our short Foresight Initiative survey here. Your input is everything!