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Tue, Sep 17

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Webinar/Virtual Training

MHTTC | Youth and Young Adult Peer Support Training

The Youth and Young Adults Peer Support training was developed to train peer supporters on the topics of youth voice and issues specific to youth navigating mental health or substance use challenges.

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Time & Location

Sep 17, 2024, 9:00 AM – Sep 19, 2024, 5:00 PM

Webinar/Virtual Training

About the event

  • Define the term “youth”
  • Identify and practice effective ways of meeting youth and young people “where they are”
  • Build authentic connections with young people based on lived experience, regardless of differences in age or other experiences
  • Identify stigmatizing language used to describe young people and effectively reframe such language through the lens of peer values
  • Understand how resistance or other actions may be forms of self-advocacy, communication, or responses to trauma
  • Identify common responses to trauma that young people experience
  • Support young people in exploring different ways to heal from trauma
  • Utilize foundational knowledge of power and privilege to support youth experiencing oppression
  • Assist young people in learning to advocate for themselves within the settings that young people must navigate
  • Set and hold boundaries with persons served and coworkers
  • Identify challenges and ethical boundaries for supporting family members of a young person

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