Tue, Sep 17
|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.
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