Positive Youth Development

Supervisors will enhance their knowledge of developmental and cultural needs of adolescents. Strength-based case management and social worker supervision will be explored.

Goal

Supervisors' practice reflects knowledge of developmental and cultural needs of adolescents in foster care via strength-based case management and supervision of caseworkers.

Objectives

1. Supervisors will learn about Positive Youth Development as it relates to youth in care.
2. Supervisors will develop strategies to support caseworkers in engaging youth in planning and decision making.
3. Supervisors will have an understanding of what skills young adults need to acquire in order to achieve self sufficiency.
4. Supervisors will reflect on their associations regarding older youth in care and the implication on practice.

Presentations

Positive Youth Development - Kim Stevens

Training Materials

Definitions and Key Characteristics of a Positive Youth Development Approach 
Essential Elements of Positive Youth Development
Significant Aspects of Adolescent Development
Strength-based Management Approaches to Foster Positive Youth Development
Supervisory Practice Techniques Identified by STEPS Participants
Positive Youth Development as Defined by Participants of Module One

Best Practices and Summaries

Best Practices with Youth as Identified by Participants of Module One
Supervisory Best Practices
Pictorial Representations of Positive Youth Development
"How (Un)ethical Are You?" - Mahzarin R. Banaji, Harvard Business Review