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Field Forum: Using the OST Job Quality Standards to Address Recruitment and Retention Challenges
Field Forum: Using the OST Job Quality Standards to Address Recruitment and Retention Challenges
The recently released OST Job Quality Standards, Usage Guide, and Assessment offer actionable guidelines to enhance job quality, encourage workforce development, and address the OST field’s recruitment and retention challenges. Join this Field Forum to learn more about the Standards and hear how various audiences – from systems to program-level personnel – can use these... Read more »
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Training: Youth Thrive (Day 1 of 2)
Training: Youth Thrive (Day 1 of 2)
Youth Thrive is an evidence-informed framework for approaching our work with youth ages 9-24. Instead of a sole focus on limiting risk factors or maintaining a problem-free environment, Youth Thrive teaches youth work professionals and parents to recognize, support, and build on protective and promotive factors. Based in strengths-based and positive psychology, this approach can... Read more »
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Training: Youth Mental Health First Aid
Training: Youth Mental Health First Aid
Youth Mental Health First Aid USA teaches you how to identify, understand, and respond to signs of mental illness and substance use disorders in youth. This virtual training gives adults who work with youth the skills they need to reach out and provide initial support to children and adolescents (ages 12-18) who may be developing... Read more »
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Training – Basic Specialized Care
Training – Basic Specialized Care
Basic Specialized Care is a six-hour introductory training for early childhood and afterschool professionals who serve vulnerable children and their families in regulated child care and afterschool settings. This in-person training is one of the requirements to become a Specialized Care Provider in Vermont. Topics covered include:
Training: Youth Thrive (Day 2 of 2)
Training: Youth Thrive (Day 2 of 2)
Youth Thrive is an evidence-informed framework for approaching our work with youth ages 9-24. Instead of a sole focus on limiting risk factors or maintaining a problem-free environment, Youth Thrive teaches youth work professionals and parents to recognize, support, and build on protective and promotive factors. Based in strengths-based and positive psychology, this approach can... Read more »