June 2017
On Thursday, June 16 at 1:00 PM EDT, the Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators (CJCA) will host a webinar entitled, "Applying Positive Youth Development Strategies to Reduce the Use of Isolation and Ensure Youth Safety."
This webinar will focus on preventing isolation by using a PYD framework, including developing and fostering healthy staff-to-youth relationships. The webinar objectives include:
To understand the basic tenets of Positive Youth Development
To understand the difference between the outcomes we use to track high level success and the strategies that we employ with youth in order to achieve these outcomes
To understand the critical role of the staff-to-youth relationship in preventing the use of isolation
To provide participants with concrete strategies for helping staff feel confident and capable in managing negative youth behaviors, without the use of isolation
To provide steps to consider when attempting to move a facility and/or agency culture away from using isolation to one of using alternative tools
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.