Please Note: The course runs across two evenings, with each session lasting 1.5 hours.

Peaceful Pathways: Positive Youth Development Essentials is a dynamic, three-hour workshop designed for out-of-school time staff working with school-aged children.  This engaging session introduces the core principles of Positive Youth Development and the four PYD domains (Assets, Agency, Contribution, and Enabling Environment) while naming connections to the eight dimensions of youth well-being and current research in the field.  

Participants will leave with concrete strategies for building strong relationships, facilitating skill-building activities, elevating youth voice, and partnering with families, schools and community agencies—practices that directly enhance program quality, consistency, and impact for young people. Participants build essential knowledge and skills, develop a common language for youth development practice, and strengthen program practices.

*Links will be emailed prior to the start of the session.

Peaceful Schools’ Social-Emotional Learning in Out-of-School Time Programs professional development equips participants to intentionally weave SEL into every aspect of after-school programming through engaging, resilience-based strategies. In this highly interactive, activity-centered workshop, staff experience and practice SEL “in action” as they learn how the power of joy and positive relationships supports the brain’s ability to learn, regulate, and recover from stress. Participants will explore hands-on strategies to foster resilience, teach effective coping skills, and build social emotional skills that empower youth. The session combines interactive activities, real-world scenarios, and proven techniques to equip staff with tools for cultivating safe, supportive environments where young people connect and thrive. 

*Links will be emailed prior to the start of the session.

Peaceful Pathways: Positive Youth Development Essentials is a dynamic, three-hour workshop designed for out-of-school time staff working with school-aged children.  This engaging session introduces the core principles of Positive Youth Development and the four PYD domains (Assets, Agency, Contribution, and Enabling Environment) while naming connections to the eight dimensions of youth well-being and current research in the field.

*Links will be emailed prior to the start of the session.

Participants will leave with concrete strategies for building strong relationships, facilitating skill-building activities, elevating youth voice, and partnering with families, schools and community agencies—practices that directly enhance program quality, consistency, and impact for young people. Participants build essential knowledge and skills, develop a common language for youth development practice, and strengthen program practices.

*Links will be emailed prior to the start of the session.

Using best practices for healthy interpersonal communication, this training is customized to the needs of the communicator and their audience. Participants will be introduced to foundational skills for leveraging verbal and non- verbal communication strategies to interact effectively and to make messages clear, complete, and useful. The training will give participants the opportunity to learn how to use affective statements, question-based approaches, and positive problem-solving skills to engage in healthy conversations. 

*Links will be emailed prior to the start of the session.

Research indicates that school workers who engage in professional development to discuss and examine research based instructional strategies are better equipped to support high expectations and convey belief in the ability of learners who are impacted by the limitations and challenges that their family faces. The number of students from poverty is increasing in our schools and it is important to understand poverty’s impact on educational success and use strategies to overcome the impact of poverty on the brain and learning. In this training participants will apply Brain Science, study actionable strategies, and build on MTSS Practices to support trauma and poverty informed teaching.

*Links will be emailed prior to the start of the session.