The Student Support Card - a reliable measure of the effectiveness of social emotional learning, school climate, and risk behavior reduction efforts in your school and community.
Join us for a 2-day or 4-day learning opportunity. Kaleidoscope Connect’s simple but proven framework will inspire and guide you to support youth and work with them to recognize, appreciate and amplify their unique strengths, talents, and characteristics. During the Academy, you will learn proven practices that will decrease negative behaviors and encourage positive outcomes. You will receive tools and will practice strategies to guide adults to connect with students, and for students to reach back and connect with adults.
Two sessions scaffold and prepare you to work with teens to amplify their strengths and self-activate their support systems. You will leave these sessions with a renewed energy and passion for working with and supporting youth. Learning materials and resources will be provided.
Phase 1: Introduction to Kaleidoscope Connect’s Integrative Youth Development (IYD) Framework
For people new to Kaleidoscope Connect, this session provides a solid introduction to our framework, principles, and practices. During this session, participants will:
- Learn about the power of Integrative Youth Development.
- Practice methods for interpreting, presenting and teaching individuals across community sectors to share the responsibility for preparing children and youth for an unknown future.
- Discover measurable data collection and analysis tools.
Phase 2: Deepening IYD Principles & Practices
For people who have previous formal training in Integrative Youth Development. During this session, participants will:
- Deepen their understanding of Integrative Youth Development’s Student Support Card.
- Practice how to analyze the Student Support Card assessment data and coach youth and adults to effectively and efficiently understand, interpret, and amplify what is right and strong about the teen.
Select a 2-day or 4-day session. Phase 1 is a pre-requisite for Phase 2. Only participants who have attended Phase 1 Academies may attend Phase 2.
Why should I attend?
We all want to make a positive impact on youth, but often do not know how to get started or feel we have lost our way. In spite of our best efforts, teens continue to be impacted by drugs, alcohol, suicidal ideation, bullying, and a host of other issues that affect them and their community. Caring and connected adults form the foundation of a youth's ability to avoid these problems or bounce back from them. Participants will gain new insights into the social-emotional factors impacting youth.
The Academy will guide participants to understand, integrate and apply the best of current youth development research for treating, teaching, counseling, neighboring, and parenting children and teens. Participants will learn meaningful, measurable and memorable strategies and methods that support youth to get on, and stay on, a course towards resilience and success.
What past participants are saying:
“Thanks Derek for such a wonderful, life-changing experience. I left the four days with you feeling very grateful for my personal circumstances ... and the imperative to ensure that my students will have the same kinds of support!”
“When I think about the truly significant steps that have been taken in the last 30 years to open a path to a brighter future for Alaska youth, the work that was done by Derek Peterson ranks at the top of the list. Where other people see barriers, Derek sees possibilities. His work has helped children of all kinds overcome the obstacles that inequality imposes and go on to become strong, confident problem-solvers."
"Forget the boring lectures, textbooks, and the PowerPoint projectors, Derek will energize your crowd with basic skills that you can begin using immediately. You will never forget the balloons, the strings, and the message! Helping your community help itself—that is the message that Derek brings — no need to buy expensive 'systems' or 'kits'—Derek will give you the skills and tools needed so that you can develop what you need and what is culturally competent for your community."
“Derek Peterson is one of those rare individuals who can bring all of the stakeholders together and help them realize they have the power to make the difference in the lives of their children!"
“(This) has such a profound effect on me and the way I look at student support and how we all need to help them and support them. I always knew this, but you've opened my eyes even more. I can't thank you enough.”
Accommodations:
Fantasyland Hotel is pleased to offer ERLC an “open block” for this event. Individual reservations can be made by contacting their Hotel Reservations Department directly at (780) 444-5541 or toll-free at 1 (800) 737-3783. Callers MUST ask for Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium's corporate weekday rate of $164.00 and $210.00 weekend rate.
Target Audience
People who support youth and are interested in: raising student achievement and graduation rates; strengthening families; mitigating Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs); reducing violence, drugs, and alcohol use; preventing suicide; increasing resiliency; supporting teen parents; reducing bullying behaviors. Anyone who cares about the overall well-being of children and youth.