Reducing Isolation In Youth Facilities: Applying Positive Youth Development Strategies to Reduce the Use of Isolation and Ensure Youth Safety
This webinar focused on preventing isolation by using a PYD framework, including developing and fostering healthy staff-to-youth relationships. The webinar objectives include:
- To understand the basic tenets of Positive Youth Development
- To understand the difference between the outcomes we use to track high level success and the strategies that we employ with youth in order to achieve these outcomes
- To understand the critical role of the staff-to-youth relationship in preventing the use of isolation
- To provide participants with concrete strategies for helping staff feel confident and capable in managing negative youth behaviors, without the use of isolation
- To provide steps to consider when attempting to move a facility and/or agency culture away from using isolation to one of using alternative tools
Presenters include:
Shannon Myrick, Ph.D., Strategic Initiatives Manager, Oregon Youth Authority
Ruth Rovezzi, Deputy Commissioner for Operations and Support Services, Massachusetts DYS
Access the PowerPoint here.
