Partnership for Children Trainings
Trainings in Youth Mental Health for PFC Partner Agencies
Partnership for Children provides high-quality, free and affordable training in a variety of subjects related to youth mental health. Our trainings can be offered to staff, parents and youth of partnering agencies.
These trainings are typically provided by local trained mental health professionals and subject matter experts. Trainings are delivered by request with the goal of promoting long-term change for the benefit of children and families in our community.
Contact Robin Vida to schedule a training listed here or to discuss other trainings that could meet your needs.
An introduction to the ACE Study and the lifelong impact of psychological trauma. Includes information on neuroscience and resilience.
- Duration: 1.5-2 hours
- Delivery: In-person or virtual
- Target audience: 18 and older
- Fee: No charge
- Languages offered: English and Spanish
This suicide intervention training teaches attendees how to recognize, respond to and support an individual contemplating suicide. This training requires a minimum of ten participants.
- Duration: 16 hours over two days
- Delivery: In-person only
- Target audience: 18 and older
- Fee: Varies (Free to partners)
- Languages offered: English
This training will focus on ways to increase opportunities for youth and families to be more resilient in the face of adversity. Participants will utilize knowledge about the impact of ACEs to identify ways to increase protective factors for youth, families, and the community.
- Duration: 1-1.5 hours
- Delivery: In-person, virtual or hybrid
- Target audience: 18 and older
- Fee: No charge
- Languages offered: English
This evidence-based model created by Be Strong Families provides peer support.
Parent Café
This evidence-based model created by Be Strong Families provides peer support for parents and strengthens parents’ protective factors.
Professional Café
This modification of Parent Cafés is designed to encourage multi-disciplinary support between professionals and teams.
Youth Café
Youth Cafes use the BSF Evidence-based model to create peer support for people ages 12-18.
- Duration: 1.5-2 hours
- Delivery: In-person or virtual
- Target audience: 12 and older
- Fee: Varies (free to partners)
- Languages offered: English
This training will focus on recognizing the signs of abuse for children and youth, and provide an overview of the requirement for mandatory reporting for helping professionals.
- Duration: 1 hour
- Delivery: In-person, virtual or hybrid
- Target audience: 18 and older
- Fee: No charge
- Languages offered: English
This training will focus on practical ways to show cultural humility to People of Color and ways to communicate more effectively with all races by emphasizing verbal de-escalation skills and empathy.
- Duration: 1-1.5 hours
- Delivery: In-person or virtual
- Target audience: 18 and older
- Fee: No charge
- Languages offered: English
Overview of current trends in Youth & Adolescent substance use. Reviews risk and protective factors and what may lead to youth substance use. This training includes how and when to use Narcan, the opioid reversal drug, as well as local resources.
- Duration: 2 hours
- Delivery: In-person or virtual
- Target audience: Professionals, youth workers and volunteers
- Fee: No charge
- Languages offered: English
This evidence-based suicide program teaches attendees how to recognize and respond to a suicide crisis until more qualified health care professional can take over.
- Duration: 1.5-2 hours
- Delivery: In-person or virtual
- Target audience: 18 and older
- Fee: No charge
- Languages offered: English
This evidence-based suicide prevention program teaches individuals how to recognize and reach out to someone thinking about suicide and ways to connect to further support. Common barriers to receiving help, including attitudes and a reluctance to talking openly about suicide are also addressed.
- Duration: 3.5 hours
- Delivery: In-person
- Target audience: 15 and older
- Fee: Varies (free to partners)
- Languages offered: English
This training provides a professional perspective on holistic self care practices for people in helping professions.
- Duration: 1-1.5 hours
- Delivery: In-person, virtual or hybrid
- Target audience: 18 and older
- Fee: No charge
- Languages offered: English
An overview of formal and informal supports and services for youth and families in St. Joseph County.
- Duration: 1 hour
- Delivery: In-person or virtual
- Target audience: 15 and older
- Fee: No charge
- Languages offered: English
This training focuses on the impact of trauma on child development, trauma informed responses and provider well-being.
- Duration: 1.5 hours
- Delivery: In-person, virtual or hybrid
- Target audience: 18 and older
- Fee: No charge
- Languages offered: English
TBRI® is an attachment-based trauma informed intervention designed to meet the complex needs of children who have experienced adversity, early harm, toxic stress, and/or trauma which often results in undesirable behaviors.
- Duration: 2-3 hours
- Delivery: In-person, virtual or hybrid
- Target audience: 18 and older
- Fee: No charge
- Languages offered: English
Participants will learn strategies to prevent youth from vaping and why it can quickly lead to addiction.
- Duration: 1-1.5 hours
- Delivery: In-person or virtual
- Target audience: 18 and older
- Fee: Varies (free to partners)
- Languages offered: English and Spanish
Participants will learn techniques to stay in control of their emotions, attitudes and behaviors when faced with confrontation and/ or people behaving irrationally, leading to opportunities for more positive outcomes in challenging situations.
- Duration: 1.5-2 hours
- Delivery: In-person or virtual
- Target audience: 18 and older
- Fee: No charge
- Languages offered: English
This evidence-based program is designed for adults who regularly interact with young people. Course content includes common mental health challenges for youth, typical adolescent development, and a 5-step action plan for helping young people in both crisis and non-crisis situations. Requires a minimum of 7 participants for this training.
- Duration: 7 hours
- Delivery: In-person or virtual
- Target audience: 18 and older
- Fee: Varies (free to partners)
- Languages offered: English and Spanish