Professional Development

Training courses & team-building experiences tailored to take your community to the next level

Educators & Community Leaders

  • Target Audience:

    Teachers, administrators, parents, program volunteers, school support staff, caregivers

    Goals:

    Identify basic & underlying needs based on exhibited behaviors, both positive & negative

    Create awareness of unmet needs & develop empathy that creates safe relational space

    Equip leaders with practical, positive intervention strategies to minimize negative behaviors & build healthy connections between adults & children/youth that inspire positive behaviors

    Elements:

    Team-building/experiential learning exercise for participants

    Define behavior & basic human needs

    4 Functions of Behavior & the aligning unmet needs to be addressed

    Intervention strategies that build healthy relationships & encourage positive behavior

    Role play to practice interventions

    Q&A Time

  • Target Audience:

    Teachers, administrators, parents, program volunteers, school support staff, caregivers

    Goals:

    Increase awareness about child abuse

    Curb potential threats to children’s emotional or physical safety

    Establish healthy boundaries to prevent abuse

    Recognize warning signs of abuse

    Report suspected abuse appropriately

    Elements:

    Facts about child abuse

    Recognize, Resist, & Report

    3 T’s of Safety with Children

    Tips on establishing & communicating boundaries to prevent abuse

    Communication skills with suspected victims and/or perpetrators

    Role play to practice interventions

    Q&A Time

Professionalism & Team-Building

  • Learn & implement key elements of healthy communication within your team, family, or community.


    Focus Areas:

    Tone, Tact, & Timing

    Connection, Collaboration, & Compassion

    Resolve conflict in more constructive ways, communicate clearly and effectively with those around you, and express sincere empathy and understanding by recognizing the perspective of other involved parties.

  • Learn basic leadership skills including:
    Excellence (operating with professionalism & integrity)
    Wisdom (discernment & confident decision-making)
    Vision & Action (take steps to grow as a leader)

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Contact Claire at (512) 677-5117 or claire@summitlead.org.