Working with at-risk youth is an absolutely vital part of youth work. It’s also one of the areas where you get to see the biggest change and feel the most reward, by delivering them to a life of safety. As such working with at-risk youth training program is crucial to a youth worker’s development. It will involve learning to identify at-risk youths, how to address the issue sensitively, and how to remove them to a safer situation.
Often such situations will require you to address various mental health issues, as growing up at-risk can be scarring, full training will be given for this, too. While you won’t get the full training of a counselor, you will be able to learn to sensitively and effectively deal with basic mental health issues in your working with at-risk youth training.
What will the youth learn?
As many behavioral issues are learned at home part of your working with at-risk youth training will cover teaching the youths kindness through your actions. You can teach them that any level of effort is a great thing; perfection is unattainable, and good enough is a great achievement. You’ll learn to teach invaluable life skills, empowering them in their lives. Another important thing to learn is conflict resolution with anger management skills, learning to respond to anger in socially acceptable ways. You will also learn to teach them the benefits of self-expression through anything from sports to creative activities should be actively encouraged and nurtured.
