¡Attención!

SAVE THE DATE!

Training Opportunities:
Post Ike: Youth Services Respond to Crisis
Holly Bell, Amy Dunn, Jack Nowicki
December 16, 2008
Houston

Rethinking Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Frank J. Kros
January 16, 2009
Austin

and

Youth In Action
February 4, 2009
TNOYS & Texans Care for Children partner to hold Youth In Action/Children's Advocacy Day
For more information click here

The XL Institute

The XL Institute delivers training and consultation services that develop organizational and community capacity and develop competent, confident youth-work professionals. The ultimate purpose of the XL Institute is to ensure effective services to vulnerable youth and their families, based on the best methods and knowledge available in the field.

TNOYS professional staff bring decades of experience in direct service delivery as well as training and capacity development. The Institute also draws on the expertise of a circle of experts who can cover a wide range of topics and experience. If we don’t have what you need, it’s likely we can find it or develop it!

Fees charged by the XL Institute are based on actual costs. Group rates can be negotiated. We can also work with your organization to share costs and promote with others in your area. TNOYS members receive a discounted rate.

Services Provided

The following is just a sampling of training and consulting packages currently available. We continue to adapt and design new packages, based on requests. Let us know YOUR needs!

Behavioral Issues

  • After the Runaway Returns: Working with Youth and Families
  • Responding to Youth’s Disruptive Behavior: A Solution-Oriented, Competency-Based Approach

Building an Effective Staff

  • Case Management & Documentation
  • Deconstructing Problem-Saturated Stories: The Narrative Approach
  • Interviewing for Client Strengths
  • Micro-counseling Skills for Communication: An Experiential Workshop
  • Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: A Practice-Oriented Workshop
  • Strengths-Based Crisis Counseling: A Skills-Building Workshop
  • The Politics & Process of Ethical Decision-Making
  • Therapeutic Reframing

Evidence-Based Practice

  • What Works in Therapy: The Common Factors & Evidence-based Practice

Peer Relationships

  • Dating Violence

Family Solution

  • Doing More in Brief Counseling
  • Using Solution-Focused, Strengths-Based Approaches with Youth & Families
  • Engaging Difficult Families
  • Empowering Frustrated Parents
  • Empowering Youth & Families in Crisis
  • Systemic Family Therapy: An Overview

Managing Programs and Services

  • Facilitating Solution-Oriented Case Staffings
  • Solution-Oriented Supervision: Empowering Employees

Speacial Issues

  • Gang-Involved Youth
  • Reluctant Clients: Working with Folks Who Don’t Want to Be There
  • Responding to “Suicidal Youth”
  • Self Mutilation: A Counselor’s Toolbox
  • Substance Abuse: Keeping Up with what’s HOT
  • Working Effectively with Passive Clients

Youth Development

  • Developing Youth Adult Partnerships
  • Embracing A Youth Development Approach
  • Facilitating Possibility-Oriented Conversations with Youth
  • Identifying & Building Upon Resiliency in Youth
  • Increasing Competency Within Developmental Stages
  • Teaching Youth the Solution-Building Process

Facilitation

Institute staff work creatively with your organization to plan, design, and facilitate dynamic group activities and meetings such as:

  • Staff Teambuilding Retreats
  • Youth Leadership Seminars
  • Community Collaboration Meetings
  • Planning Meetings utilizing the TOP-ICA Methods
  • Experiential Programming Planning

Consulting

Our versatile staff can provide individualized technical assistance and consultation on any training topic; plus other areas such as:

  • Human Resource Management
  • Conference Planning
  • Program Development, Planning, and Evaluation
  • Grantwriting
  • Executive Coaching
  • Board Development

Our Approach

We engage in a preliminary assessment to design the service that best meets your needs as an individual, team, program, or organization. We end with a thorough evaluation, to ensure that we met your needs. These “book-ends” are critical to ensure that the services you receive are needed, relevant, and effective.

We use a competency-based, strengths-oriented approach to training and consultation; facilitating the discovery of what participants are already doing right, and exploring ways they can do more of what works to increase their effectiveness. This approach includes:

  • Presenting material in manageable ways,
  • Group discussion, telling stories,
  • Opportunities to practice new skills, and
  • Planning how to integrate the material.

Our methods are based on social learning theory and adult education; proven methods that amplify participants’ competencies and maximize the learning experience. The learning format used (Present, Practice & Discuss) encourages active participation, ensures understanding, and connects to participants’ pre-workshop repertoire in ways that ensure post-workshop success.