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Evidence & Strengths Based Interventions for Working With Youth and Adolescents March 24 - 26, 2010In Historic New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Details | Download Brochure | Faculty | Hotel & Fees | Testimonials | Local Attractions | Register Now Earn up to 21 Hours Working with youth and adolescents present unique challenges in a world of adult-based solutions. Focused on evidence based solutions, this program is developed to enhance the efficacy of correctional staff, service providers, case managers and others who work with youth and adolescents. Many ask, "which evidence based programs result in enduring success with youth and adolescents, and how to implement them?" Well, today's economic climate suggests we must also ask, "how you justify, fund and sustain such programs"! Experts, Abe French, Mark Lowis, Dr. David Myers and Dr. Bette Neville will answer these and other vital questions for guiding and sustaining your program strategies and tactics in light of today's increased scrutiny. Please join us in Fabulous New Orleans, Louisiana! PROGRAM AGENDA-AT-A-GLANCE
Day 1 ~ March 24 7:00 - 8:00 AM: Registration, Breakfast,
Networking
8:00 - 9:00:
Strength Based Strategies: Contemporary and Emerging Trends in Working with
Youth For decades the field of mental health and social services maintained a focus on juvenile deficiencies and limitations as the basis for addressing solutions. Recent research findings question this deficit-based approach and has moved to a more holistic model that operates efficiently within several evidence based frameworks. Strength-based experts work with clients to discover and highlight individual and family strengths and not focus on weaknesses or deficiencies. Strength based strategies as an approach is a departure from deficit based models that evolved from institutional settings. In the strength base approach the practitioner allows the individual to describe the targeted issues and how he sees the agency assisting in amelioration. At this point the practitioner focuses on the development of an assistive and collaborative partnership which will be made use of in working through the recovery process. Following identification of the targeted problem and forming of a relationship, the practitioner first determines the degree of knowledge, experience, ability and motivation the person already has for resolving the targeted issue and achieving goals. In this way the practitioner acts as a spot-light helping the person reconnect and bring existing skills and abilities to bear on the problems. Next the practitioner acts as an assistive and collaborative partner in exploring, educating and practicing new skills or strategies that would be useful in resolving the targeted issue. The individual remains autonomous and has full choice and control regarding those strategies selected with the help of the practitioner works n a guiding way to strengthen motivation, overcome barriers and implement effective strategies. As the basis for effecting lasting change, this program explores the belief that children and families have unique talents, skills, and life events, in addition to specific unmet needs. Through the rest of the programs events, we focus on some prominent evidenced based practices which operate within a strength based framework and are fast becoming "industry standards".
9:00 - 11:00:
Evidence-Based Accountability and Performance Measurement for Program
Sustainability and Funding Increasingly, policy-makers, funding agencies, and the general public are demanding accountability from justice system institutions and social service providers. As the demands on public resources grow, it becomes more and more important to choose wisely how available public resources will be spent. Agencies and organizations working with children and adolescents have been feeling the effects of this trend, and many struggle to provide meaningful information about the work they do as they pursue funding and other resources to support their programs. Historically, juvenile practitioners have relied greatly on intuition and personal experience to guide their work and determine consequences for adolescent behavior. More recently, however, performance assessment has become a key component of the evidence-based programming and accountability movement. Performance assessment emphasizes measuring an organization’s ability to do things, encompassing the measurement of productivity (how much they do), effectiveness (how efficiently they do it), quality (how well they do it), and timeliness (how long it takes them to do it). This presentation will cover the basic aspects of performance assessment, in terms of why it should be done, how it should be done, and how the results can be used to benefit the organization. In general, performance assessment links organizational philosophy and mission to specific agency activities, and further allows an organization to determine whether its goals and objectives are being achieved. Measuring performance requires a clear unit of analysis (e.g., individual juvenile offenders or clients); consistent data collection procedures and processing; and regular dissemination of important information generated by the data. In measuring performance, multiple outcomes (i.e., measures of success) should be considered that indicate what the organization is trying to achieve (e.g., reduce recidivism, improve school performance, enhance family relationships, etc.). When done well, performance assessment can produce results that improve operational and staff management; assist with resource acquisition, allocation, and budgeting; and inform stakeholders about organizational successes and needs. Recent experiences of a diverse array of jurisdictions across the country illustrate that it is possible, practical, and useful to measure the performance of juvenile justice systems and organizations devoted to working with youth and adolescents. Pennsylvania will be used as an example of a state that has embraced evidence-based accountability and performance assessment in juvenile justice, with an emphasis on monitoring statewide juvenile court outcome measures and utilizing county-level performance measures to better manage departments and evaluate services provided and program effectiveness.
Core Skills in Planning and Implementing Appropriate Interventions in Youth & Adolescents Settings Presenter: Bette C. Neville, Ed.D., Former Director of Treatment, Associated Marine Institutes (AMIKids), Certified Youth Assessment Screening Instrument Trainer, Motivational Interviewing Network Trainer (MINT)Program participants will be in a position to more effectively deal with youth by gaining a better understanding of the research and meta-analyses surrounding effective interventions, cognitive behavioral, and other research based applications for delinquent youth. In addition they will get even better results as they learn to develop goals and objectives for Individualized Service Plans. An in-depth review of the domains of risk, appropriate interventions and assessment practice is covered. Domains of Risk in Juvenile Justice and Appropriate Interventions
Domains of risk have been identified through the work of many researchers
and practitioners. These are domains that are associated with criminal
behavior and recidivism. Knowledge of the domains of risk characteristic
of the youth is most helpful in determining the most appropriate and
effective intervention. The session will also review the match-up between risk factors characteristic of the juvenile offender and the type of program interventions most likely to yield enduring results for the youth's success in community. Effective Assessment Practices for Youth and Adolescent Population Asessment is the engine that drives effective correctional and behavioral change programs leading to successful transition to the community. Successful administrators and practitioners must prepare clients to be successful as they transition through their various stages. Transition begins at day-one through the use of effective and systematic screening and assessment practices.Tools for assessing clients have flooded the market in recent years making it difficult to determine the best route for an organization, what assessments or instruments to select and what vendor best meets the needs of the organization and its clients. Program Goals and Learning Outcomes: Participants will learn to develop effective interventions, understand concepts and skills of cognitive behavioral and other evidence based approaches for successfully working with youth to prevent relapse and recidivism and help the youth succeed in community. Upon completion of this training, participants will gain an understanding of; In addition, participants will be in a position to develop goals and objectives for an Individualized Service Plan.
Day 2 ~ March 25
8:00 - 4:30: All Day Comprehensive & Interactive Workshops Continue
Motivational Interviewing Principles, Concepts & Practices for Working
With Youth otivational Interviewing (MI) is a proven evidence based approach that recognizes and accepts the fact that clients who need to make changes in their lives approach counseling at different levels of readiness. Understanding MI and learning how to apply its principles is essential for success in the utilization of many cognitive behavioral approaches to realize meaningful change in anti-social behavior to ultimately prevent relapse and reduce recidivism. Developed by William Miller and Steve Rollnick, MI skills are applied to help guide clients to resolve ambivalence and ultimately change behavior. Led by Mr. Mark Lowis, Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) and member of the MINT, who trained directly under William Miller and Steve Rolnick, this workshop is an action-packed interactive program of fun learning and skill acquisition! It goes beyond a simple introductory overview designed to help participants acquire concepts, essential skills and the proven strategies and techniques involved in MI. It will help participants learn how it can be developed and utilized dynamically in various settings and in particular with youth and adolescent populations. It is informative and highly experiential for staff at various levels of knowledge of the MI spirit and approach, as well as those who are already implementing the model. WHAT WE WILL COVER
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Day 3 ~ March 26
8:00 - 4:30: All Day Comprehensive & Interactive Workshops Continue Thinking Matters for Enduring Youth Change: A Pre and Standalone Cognitive Behavioral Model for Individual Interactions and Group Management Presenter: Abe French, Principal, Cognitive Consulting & Programming "Anti-social behaviors are just the tip of the iceberg. To make lasting behavior changes one must get to the thinking beneath."
Many cognitive behavioral approaches teach thinking reports as a single
item and assume that participants possess an understanding of underlying
concepts and ideas. They also assume the participants enter the program
with the skills necessary to perform the program activities. Using these
models facilitators must use valuable group time to explain concepts such
as “objective, “brief” and “blame”. This impedes progress for more
advanced participants and lengthens program delivery. Facilitators often
feel compelled to complete the program on schedule. If this occurs,
essential information are “skipped” due to time constraints.
Participants will be in a position to coach their clients on how how to
write a satisfactory situation descriptions, become familiar with their
personal cognitive habits as they learn to look for and address the
thinking that leads them to criminal and undesirable conduct. In
addition, participants will be able to work with both participants who do
not have basic skills required to perform more intensive programs and or
those needing a more intensive approach. Participants of Thinking Matters Training will receive a Thinking Matters Facilitator Manual and unlimited rights to copy program materials. In addition;
This training models the learning experience of the clients. 4:30 Program concludes * Agenda Subject to change
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