Professional Development Workshops:
- Purposeful Leadership: Guiding Your Team to Success - Effective leadership is essential for driving a team's success. Purposeful Leadership is a training program designed to help leaders empower their team members through various ways that drive their motivation and engagement. OCFS Area(s): 5 & 7
- Principles of Youth Development -Learn the basic principles of children's development, learning styles and ways to apply these principles to ensure developmentally appropriate programs. From conception through adolescence we will review ages and stages of children’s physical, social, emotional and cognitive needs. Covers OCFS Area(s): 1
- Best Practices in Quality Programming – Explore best practices and standards in the field for high quality programming, incorporate assessment practices to strategically plan for effectively improving on program quality and meet the needs of the whole child. OCFS Area(s):3,4,5 & 7
- Effective Supervision – Explore how you can meet the responsibilities and excel in your supervision skills by learning about various core competencies to provide support, impact in the workplace, and the importance of forming good working relationships. OCFS
Area(s): 3, 5 & 7
- Engage Your Community: Strategies for Building Stronger Connections– Learn how to identify the community you work in, needs assessment and how to build relationships to provide appropriate support and services. OCFS Area(s): 3 & 4
- Building A Dynamic Team: Strategies for Success - Team development workshop will teach you how to exhibit accountability, purpose, cohesiveness, and collaboration through evidence-based practices. OCFS Area(s): 1, 3 & 5
- Youth Risk Management: Minimizing Liability and Maximizing Safety – Manage agency risk and help reduce exposure by teaching professionals to identify potential issues, create systems, action plans and preparations to handle situations that will limit any liability. OCFS Area(s): 5, 6 & 7
- Mastering Professionalism in Afterschool - This course allows participants to define professionalism and analyze the factors that represent professionalism at their agency. Teaching to progress through practices to improve the professionalism of their communications, their workplace competencies, etiquette, and finally, the ability to coach others to a higher level of professional behavior. This course can easily be adjusted to incorporate your organization's specific challenges and policies. OCFS Area(s): 5 & 7
- 414 SAC Regulations 101 – Learn and understand about the after-school regulations to build upon the foundations of operating an afterschool program to meet all compliance requirements. OCFS Area(s): 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5
- Effective Management Systems - An effective management system is a deliberately integrated set of management processes and tools that help align the company strategy and annual objectives with daily actions, monitor performance and implement accountability measures. OCFS Area(s): 7
- Building a Learning Oasis: Strategies for Creating an Engaging Environment - Creating an engaging learning environment is crucial for learner success. When learners are engaged, they are more likely to retain information and apply it in real-world situations. This training will provide strategies for creating a learning oasis that will keep learners motivated and excited about the learning process. OCFS Area(s): 1, 3
- Fostering Creativity in Children - Creativity is essential for innovation and personal growth in children. This workshop aims to equip youth workers with practical strategies and tools to foster creativity in students. Participants will explore the importance of creativity in child development and engage in interactive sessions to discover innovative ways to nurture and inspire creative minds. OCFS Area(s): 1, 3
- Trauma Sensitivity Training - One of the main elements of a Trauma-Responsive Approach is its focus on enhancing adult/child relationships. The first step to understanding troublesome behavior is to understand the history behind it, rather than judging, blaming, and shaming. Informing educators about the effect of childhood trauma allows for a broader perspective as to the root cause of problematic behavior and how to support the child. OCFS Area(s): 1 & 10
- Navigating the World of Special Needs Children: A Guide to Understanding Different Abilities - Provide disability awareness, explore developmentally appropriate practices, and activities that increase knowledge and skills for working with diverse populations.
OCFS Area(s): 1, 3 - Cultivating Cultural Competence: Creating Inclusive Classrooms – Learn how to transform the classroom and create an inclusive environment by promoting a studentcentered approach. Develop skills to create an inviting and engaging learning environment for all students with varied backgrounds, learning styles, and physical and cognitive abilities in the classroom. OCFS Area(s): 1, 3
- Conflict Resolution Practices: The Art of Finding Common Ground – Learn different techniques and strategies to manage conflict that reinforces the notion that solutions are possible. Develop skills in pro-social behavior, negotiation, assertiveness, cooperation and effective communication to promote social and emotional competencies such as empathy, compassion, respect for others and emotional awareness. OCFS
Area(s): 1 & 3 - Resolving Conflicts Like a Pro: The Power of Peer Mediation – Our goal of peer mediation is to reduce conflict and provide children with problem-solving skills. Provide you the skills to train peer mediators to create a safe atmosphere, allowing disputing students to tell their stories and assisting them in working out a mutually acceptable agreement. OCFS Area(s): 1 & 3
- Mastering Positive Behavior: Strategies for Success - Teaching an evidenced based approach that emphasizes prevention, support for students. avoiding confrontation with students and focusing on the development of values, relationships and skill building. Best practices for behavior management strategies begins at the program level – programs need a unified approach to behavior management which is clearly
outlined in their policies. Techniques and resources for preventing and responding to behaviors to support the development of your behavior management plan. We will include discussions on liability as well as training and supports for staff relating to the implementation of these procedures. OCFS Area(s): 4,5 & 8
- Fostering Interpersonal Connections with Children & Youth - This training will give participants an understanding of the importance of working with children/youth to develop interpersonal skills, social awareness and teach them practical strategies for supporting this development. OCFS Area(s): 1 & 3
- Enhancing Children's Self-Esteem - Demonstrates various methods of disciplining while instilling high self-esteem. OCFS Area(s): 1 & 3
- Emotional Intelligence: The Key to Success in Life – Learn more about the critical role that social and emotional learning plays in promoting student success based on 5 strategies. OCFS Area(s): 1 & 3
- Child Abuse Prevention: Darkness to Light – Global training that is guided by the vision of a world free from child sexual abuse, where children can grow up happy, healthy and safe. OCFS Area(s): 7 & 8
- Beyond Tolerance: A LGBTQ+ Sensitivity Training - Beyond Tolerance is a sensitivity training program designed to improve understanding and ally-ship towards the LGBTQ+ community. The training covers a range of topics, including LGBTQ+ terminology, history, and culture, as well as best practices for creating inclusive environments in the workplace and beyond. OCFS Area(s): 1 & 3
- Empowering the Next Generation: Strategies for Engaging Youth – Learn how to engage with youth in a meaningful and impactful way that will create an environment that promotes youth support and positive outcomes for youth, families, and communities and increased enrollment in programs. OCFS Area(s): 1 & 3
- Embracing Differences: A Guide to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for Youth - This training program is designed to help youth organizations and schools create more inclusive environments for all students. The program covers a range of topics, including understanding diversity and inclusion, recognizing and addressing bias, and creating inclusive policies and programs. OCFS Area(s): 1 & 3
- Wellness Revolution: Transforming Your Health from the Inside Out - This training will explore the connection between mind body and soul. Participants will learn practical strategies for improving their emotional well-being, including mindfulness practices, stress management techniques. They will also discover and incorporate healthy eating habits and the benefits of exercise and creating a well-balanced health & wellness plan. OCFS Area(s): 2 & 3
Pricing:
$750 per Workshop Topic for up to 25 people maximum.
$850 per Workshop Topic up to 35 people maximum.
For a Workshop with more than 35 people please contact Kim Viade for pricing.
All workshops are 2 hours and can be in virtual or in person.
Additional fees for materials, supplies and travel will be added for in person workshops.
Please note any travel outside of NYC will have additional expenses added depending on the
location.