Skill Level: Elementary

Are you a youth service provider who works with pre-teens and teens in a helping capacity? Are you a new youth counselor seeking to build your professional helping skills? If the answer is yes, then this workshop adapted from Cassandra Mack's field guide for youth service providers, "Smart Moves That Successful Youth Workers Make," is a must for you.

This workshop is geared for youth service providers who work with youth in a formalized helping capacity. Youth service providers will learn the basic building blocks and techniques to help youth meet their goals and come up with solutions to their problems. If you work with youth in a formalized helping capacity this workshop will assist you in: developing your professional helping skills, setting appropriate boundaries with youth and dealing with resistance. Specifically, this workshop will cover:

•  What Professional Helping Is and What It Is Not. 
• How To Create A Safe Environment, Build Rapport and Get Youth To Open Up .
• 7 Essential Helping Skills: What They Are and How To Utilize Each 
• Clarifying Roles, Boundaries and Expectations: What Youth Should Expect From The Helping Relationship
• Resistance: Why You Should Expect It and How Not To Take It Personally

PLEASE NOTE:  Copies of the following books written by Cassandra Mack will be made available for purchase: 

• Young, Gifted and Doing It: 52 Power Moves for Teens,  at the special in-workshop discounted price of $10.00. 

• Cool, Confident and Strong: 52 Power Moves for Girls, at the special in-workshop discounted price of $10.00
• Say It, See It, Believe It: The Affirmation Activity Journal for Girls and Their Mothers, @ the special in-workshop discounted price of $10.00
• The Cool, Confident and Strong Self-Esteem and Smart Choices Workbook, at the special in-workshop discounted price of : $15.00.

Note: These books will be made available for purchase at the workshop directly from the facilitator via company check, cash or money order. No personal checks for in workshop sale of products.

About Your Seminar Leader, Cassandra Mack

Cassandra Mack, MSW is a success coach, personal growth strategist and the author of more than ten highly successful personal development books that are widely utilized in the human services sector. She is the founder of Strategies for Empowered Living Inc., a training/consulting/coaching company that offers workshops, consultation services and products designed to help individuals and organizations accelerate their success and breakthrough the roadblocks that hold them back. Cassandra comes to you with more than a decade of experience as a business owner, trainer, manager and  consultant to non profits. Some of the organizations she has worked with include: The Support Center for Nonprofit Management, TIAA-Cref, CSEA, Kean University, Xerox, JP Morgan Chase, National Resource Center for Youth Services, Urban Leadership Institute, The Day Care Council of New York and the Archdiocese Drug Prevention Program. For more information about our company or your seminar leader, please visit our company website: www.strategiesforempoweredliving.com

Strategies for Empowered Living Policies

Registration

Advance registration is required. Registration must be completed by the stated deadline. No on-site registration. If we do not have your name on file as registered for the workshop, we will not be able to grant you entry into the workshop. We cannot accomodate walk-ins. No exceptions.

Payment

Payment is due by the stated deadline. There will be no on-site registration so please register early. No walk-ins will be permitted to attend this event. No exceptions.

Refund Policy

Refunds will not be given. Transfer to another workshop/seminar will not be given. Substitutions are accepted provided you give us 3 business days written notice via email at: info@strategiesforempoweredliving.com. Please write the words “Workshop Substitution Request” in the subject section of your email. Upon receipt of your request for a substitution we will confirm via email within 1 business day to let you know that we received your request and have put the person you are substituting on our list provided you sent in the request 3 business days in advance of the workshop. If the person’s name who you would like to substitute is not on our list we will not accept the substitution. If you submit your request after the stated deadline, we will not accept your request. No on site substitutions.

Check-in

Check-in begins 1/2 hour before the scheduled start time. Coffee/Tea Service will be provided.

Certificates

Certificates of attendance will be given to each attendee.

Tax Deduction - All expenses related to maintaining or improving professional skills for employment or business are tax deductible according to Treasury Regulation 1.162-5. Please consult your tax adviser.

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In Workshop Conduct

We expect all registrants/participants to behave in a professional manner. We reserve the right to ask a participant/registrant to leave the workshop without a refund if they do not honor our workshop policies or if their behavior is distracting to the class or workshop presenter.