• Comprehensive Workshop sessions featuring Top Experts, Practitioners
• Gain Useful Tools & Resource
• Earn up to 20 CE Training Hours
• Network and Learn the highest quality practices for working with youth & adolescents

Strategies & Tactics for Preventing and Reducing Youth Delinquency & Crime
Paul Elam, Ph.D., Director of Business Innovation and Project Manager, Public Policy Associates, Inc.

Research has tried to determine how youth delinquency and crime begin and how it progresses. Many factors can add to a youth’s risk for engaging delinquency and crime. Risk factors can increase a youth’s chances for delinquency and crime, while protective factors can reduce the risk.  Risk and protective factors can affect youth at different stages of their lives. At each stage, risks occur that can be changed through evidence-based prevention and intervention strategies.  Research-based prevention programs focus on intervening early in a child’s development to strengthen protective factors before problem behaviors develop.

Workshop Goals and Learning Outcomes

During this day long workshop, participants will learn how risks can be changed or prevented with individual, peer, family, school, and community interventions that focus on helping youth develop appropriate, positive behaviors.  Participants will also learn strategies and tactics for addressing youth delinquency and crime through proven prevention and reduction approaches.   Dr. Elam will review key components essential for effective programs for engaging youth and adolescents to prevent and reduce delinquency and crime.  

At the end of this workshop, participants will have the conceptual knowledge to design and implement an effective delinquency prevention program.  Key topics that will be discussed include:

•    Establishing a Continuum of Care for youth
•    Developing primary, secondary and tertiary interventions
•    Identifying signs and risks that may lead to crime and delinquency
•    Implementing programs that target youth’s ecological domains

At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will also:

•    Understand the types of situations that are conducive to delinquency
•    Identify situational features that increase the likelihood for delinquency
•    List individual traits that increase the likelihood of delinquency
•    Explain how the family plays a central role in delinquency
•    Explain the association between school experiences and delinquency
•    Recognize the impact of delinquent peers on delinquency
•    Describe efforts that have been successful in preventing and reducing crime
 

Implementing Evidence-based Programs and Practices: Transitioning Your Program Into An EBP
Dr. Peter Greenwood, Executive Director, Association for Advancement of Evidence Based Practice

“Preventing and addressing youth delinquency and crime”, says Dr. Peter Greenwood, Executive Director, Association for Advancing Evidence Based Practice, “not only saves young lives from being wasted, but also prevents the onset of adult criminal careers and thus reduces the burden of crime on its victims and on society.”

Finally, we are taking the mystery out of determining what constitutes an evidence-based program.  Should I invest in such a program and ditch my existing program?  Or instead get my program adapted into and approved as an evidence-based program?  Participants will be in a position to come away equipped to answer these questions.  They will also come away know how to successfully do either.

Dr. Greenwood will review evidence-based programs for various settings, the merits of adopting an existing program vs building your existing one into an evidence-based program with focus spent on specific programs based on attendee pre-program feedback.  Finally they will learn to integrate what is learned expediently upon return. 

The workshop will help participants understand specific programs, the promise they hold, what works or what does not.  Participants will learn to determine which programs will be best suited for addressing their agency needs and individual local situations.  

Program Goals and Learning Outcomes

As a participant in this program, you will:

• Learn the various standards in use for identifying and rating evidence-based programs
• Gain an understanding of Programs evidence “says” produce desired outcomes
• Understand the basic methods for assessing the effectiveness of exist programs
• Be in a position to select program from among others
• Be in a position to determine whether to implement an existing program, or adapt their own program into one that is recognized as evidence-based
• Learn to successfully implement an EBP program
• Learn the steps for adapting your program into an evidence-based program
• Learn what funding options exist for realizing these opportunities

Integrating Evidence-based & Strength-centered Approaches for Effective Case Management

Adopting strength-based approaches is one thing.  Integrating them into existing practices is another.  Interactions with clients mark where “rubber meets the road”.  In managing cases in our care, the quality of our processes, interactions, referral hand-offs can spell success or a client’s failure to reach desired outcomes.  So how do you insure success?

Learn the simple approaches taught by Mark Lowis, MSW, LMSW, MINT integrating Motivational Interviewing and Cognitive-behavioral skills in case management to meet new state and federal mandates.  Effective case management is a collaborative process of assessment, planning, facilitation, and advocacy for options and services to meet clients' individual needs - efficiently.  In this program presented by Mark Lowis, LMSW, MINT, President, MML Consulting, Inc. we will learn evidence-based practices for this specialty area in human services and how it is applied in various settings.

Program Goals and Learning Outcomes:

Participants will learn how evidence-based practices that promote quality and effective interventions linking individuals to appropriate resources they need to ultimately succeed at their goals.  They will;

• Motivational Interviewing and Cognitive-behavioral Skills
• Stages of Change
• Gain knowledge on the key characteristics of case management
• Learn how to gather data to work effectively with clients and provide accountability reporting
• Gain an understanding of how to motivate clients for change
• Be in a position to understand recent state and national requirements
• Learn to select and implement services as well as monitor progress, and

You will also receive editable tools and resources adaptable to their unique internal needs.

Attendee Action-planning Sessions: With Expert Guidance
Mark Lowis, LMSW, MSW, MINT, President MML Consulting

Leave the program armed with a plan for how your agency can move from where it is now to where you are trying to get to.  

Beginning with the end in mind, participants will draft an action plan they can implement upon return.  Joyfields Institute expert faculty will be on hand to guide this exercise.  

Map out a plan, identify funding sources, and get feedback that will increase likelihood of success.  Make full use of available expert help, get answers to questions, get clarification, apply what works in your plan.   Role-play your presentation in front of peers to fine-tune your plan.

3:00            Closing Remarks, Conference Ends

Faculty

• Dr. Paul Elam, Project Director, Public Policy Associates, Inc.
  
  
• Dr. Peter Greenwood, President, Advancing Evidence-Based Practice
  
  
• Mark Lowis, LMSW, MSW, MINT, President MML Consulting
  

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Executives and staff at youth settings, program managers and professionals at juvenile and adolescent prevention and intervention agencies, mental health services, rehabilitative services and mentoring, courts, etc including;

• Youth Resident Populations Management
• Youth Mentor Programs Administrators
• Youth Services Providers and Community Services Organizations
• Program Directors and Executives
• Management Responsible for Youth Transitions
• Assessment and Case Management teams
• Social Workers, Behavioral Health and Mental Health Professionals
• Continuum of Care Professionals
• Court Administration and Leadership
• Psychologists, Psychiatrists and Therapists
• Pastoral counselors
• Researchers & Planners
• Mental Health and Prevention Center Professionals
• Probation & Parole Officers, Management and Leadership
• Government Agencies
• Pre-Release Specialists, and
• Other stakeholders in the youth care continuum

KEY REASON WHY YOU AND YOUR COLLEAGUES SHOULD ATTEND A JOYFIELDS INSTITUTE PROGRAM;

• Gain an understanding you need to get your evidence-based practices program off to a great start without paying the large sums some programs charge.
• You will network with colleagues to share invaluable ideas and experiences from different parts
• You will meet other leaders and practitioners serious about the business and learn how they do what they do
• You will leave at the end of the program with action steps to take to begin addressing challenges you face
• You will learn from an expert faculty what works and know what not to do
• We don't stop at just the class room studies.  You will learn in discussion groups and trouble shooting sessions how to address the opportunities ahead
• Walk away with a game plan knowing what to do once you return
• Learn first hand the best and latest resources for addressing needs and how to apply them

HOTEL, FEES, REGISTRATION

ACCOMMODATION, REGISTRATION FEE, INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPANTS

(Joyfields has a limited number of rooms.  Call 770-409-8780 for a room)

Although details regarding the host hotel for the workshop are still being finalized, we can tell you the host hotel for the workshop is The Fabulous Luxor Las Vegas Hotel, located at 3900 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las Vegas, NV 89119.  

Luxor accommodations are visually stunning and contemporarily appointed with modern amenities.  All sessions will be held within the hotel.  Joyfields Institute has negotiated a guest room and resort fee rate you can take advantage of if you plan to stay at the hotel.  *** When making your reservation, please specify rooms in the "West Tower" to insure you are closest to our meeting room location!

• Making your reservations: Please call the hotel directly to make your reservations at 702-262-4450.  You must mention the Group Code JOYF11P to receive our special negotiated rate of $74 per night of the program, plus a discounted resort fee of $8.95 and taxes.  If you are staying over Friday night, the rate changes to a negotiated rate of $114 again plus a discounted resort fee of $8.95 and taxes.  

• Hotel Room Block exteded to Oct. 14th

Participants are responsible for all accommodations, lunches, airfare and associated incidental expenses.

If you need further assistance, please contact our office at +1(770)409-8780 or send email to yvette@joyfields.org.  Thank you.

Registration

Registration fee covers;

• All training sessions
• Comprehensive Program Manual
• Earn CE training hours allocated for this particular program
• Daily continental breakfast daily with refreshment breaks

Registration Tuition:

Single Attendee: $1295 per person

2 or More Attendees: $1195 per person

To Register Online, click here, or download and complete registration form and fax to +1(678)605-0271.

** Members & Alumni
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To get this discount, download and complete registration form, enter promo code, then fax to +1(678)605-0271 to be processed.

For assistance, call +1(770)409-8780.

Program agenda, dates, fees, faculty and various other aspects of the event are subject to change without notice.  Thank you.