Michigan Learning Activities Series:

YOUTH-GUIDED CARE

This Youth-Guided Care Webinar consists of four different learning activity opportunities:

• Video Part One: Youth-guided Care: Strategies for Improving Program Practices and Staff Skills – featuring a residential organization executive with over 20 years’ experience and a youth peer partner:  This video is approximately 48 minutes long.
• Video Part Two: Youth-guided Care: Strategies for Improving Program Practices and Staff Skills – featuring a program manager with just two years’ experience supervising a residential program and a former youth in care as a facilitator: This video is approximately 25 minutes long.
• Educational Materials: There are several educational materials included for viewers (e.g., the power point slide deck of the presentation; a document summarizing key points made during the webinar; a curated list of youth-guided care resources for residential programs; etc.)
• Bonus Video (To be added in February 2024): Youth Guided Care (YGC) & Trauma-informed Care (TIC): Adaptations for youth with Developmental Disabilities, Intellectual Disabilities and/or Cognitive Impairments (DD/ID/CI), and their families – featuring an organization executive who has worked in, led and/or overseen residential programs serving youth with developmental disabilities, intellectual disabilities and/or cognitive impairments (DD/ID/CI) for over 20 years:  This short video is only approximately 20 minutes long.

(Scroll down to view the two webinars and resource materials)

Ebony Chambers
Facilitator, Advisor, Stanford Sierra Youth & Families and BBI Consultant

Marie Tolen
Executive Director, Wellspring/New Directions

Part One: Youth-Guided Care: Strategies for Improving Program Practice and Staff Skills

Featuring Joe Ford, a residential organization executive at Sycamores with over 20 years’ experience and a Sycamores youth peer partner, Jerry Salazar. This video is approximately 48 minutes long.

Part Two: Youth-Guided Care: Strategies for Improving Program Practice and Staff Skills

Featuring Shatira Baldwin, a program manager with just two years’ experience supervising a residential program and a former youth in care as a facilitator: This video is approximately 25 minutes long.

COMING SOON – Part Three: Youth-Guided Care & Trauma-informed Care (TIC): Adaptations for Youth With Developmental Disabilities, Intellectual Disabilities and/or Cognitive Impairments (DD/ID/CI), and Their Families

Featuring Marie Tolen, Executive Director at New Directions and Ebony Chambers who has years of lived experience as a parent as well as working with Stanford Sierra:  This short video is only approximately 40 minutes long.

We hope that you enjoy these webinars, gain inspiration from what you learn, and share the videos and other learning materials with others throughout your organization. Your work with and support for families and youth is SO important! You are VALUED!