Course Curriculum

• Understanding Childhood and Adolescent Development

  • Understanding traditional developmental stages and needs that must be met
  • Understanding emotional development based on the work of Mary M. Wood
  • The presence and implications of Adverse Childhood Experiences

• Positive Youth Development Science

  • Circle of Courage and the Cal Farley Model of Leadership and Service
  • Principles of Re-EDucation
  • Strategies for Healing Trauma

• Talking and Listening to the Child

  • Effective listening
  • Enlisting the young person as the primary expert on him or herself
  • Effective responding skills

• Using the Data to Restore

  • Building strengths and support
  • Interventions that build inner strength
  • Marking progress one action at a time