PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
WORKSHOPS
CUSTOMIZED TO YOUR PARTICIPANTS


What if...

Your staff could have CONTROL OVER THE CONTENT of their professional development training?

What if...

Your staff could actually name the problems that they face in their classrooms and offices, and GET TRAINING THAT PRECISELY FIT those needs?

What if...

Your staff could get PRACTICAL, REAL-WORLD, READY-TO-USE SOLUTIONS instead of more theory and philosophizing?

The answer to "What if..." is right here. Only Youth Change Workshops custom tailors every professional development training workshop to fit your exact participants. Only Youth Change Workshops targets your exact students. Only Youth Change puts your staff in charge of their own professional development. Within the first 10 minutes of your on-site workshop, your staff will be asked to name the most serious and problematic social, emotional, and school problems that their students present, then your workshop will deliver hundreds of immediate, innovative, real-world answers.

Stop using yesterday's strategies with today's kids. Working with difficult children and youth doesn't have to be so difficult if you schedule Youth Change Workshops to come to your site.

To book your professional development workshop, keynote address, or breakout sessions, contact us right away while dates remain. Call now toll-free to 1-800-545-5736, or

Take a look at some example professional development proposals below (scroll down), and see how our workshop's solutions are the perfect match for your staff's worst "kid problems."

WE CAN CUSTOMIZE A WORKSHOP
TO FIT ANY SPECIALIZED SETTING

Youth Change has provide professional development to every type of site imaginable-- from elementary schools to high schools, from charter schools to juvenile detention, from Pre-K to adult schools, from colleges to foster care agencies, from treatment centers to state hospitals, from group homes to correctional programs, from alternative schools to home school groups, from conferences to institutes, from special ed programs to independent living programs, from middle schools to Job Corps, and everywhere in between.

No matter what type of child, youth or young adult you serve, Youth Change has the solutions for your biggest concerns. A typical Youth Change workshop packs a whopping 100 interventions to help turnaround problems like work refusal, defiance, truancy, delinquency, gangs, anger control issues, ADHD, misbehavior, Asperger's, bullying, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, unmanageable behavior, poor school performance, peer interaction difficulties, and Conduct Disorder.

Look at several workshop and keynote proposals designed to precisely target the special needs of each site:

Proposal for a School District Inservice (click)

Proposal for a High School Professional Development
    Inservice Day (click)

Proposal for an Alternative Education
    Teacher Conference (click)

Proposal for a Math and Science
   Teachers' Conference (click)

Proposal for a Grades K-2
   Counselors' Inservice Workshop (click)

Proposal for a College Faculty Professional Development (click)

We can prepare a customized, problem-stopping proposal for your staff and your students. If you want to precisely target your participants' needs, contact us now while open dates remain. If we have the date available, we will customize a professional development training event that will be practical and packed with solutions. Call now toll-free to 1-800-545-5736, or

Workshop Topics      On-Site Workshop Information

TARGETED
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
THAT PRODUCES IMMEDIATE RESULTS

"Just a fabulous, life changing two days."
        Bernadette Ostrozovich, Outreach Instructor, Indianapolis, IN

"Most interesting, useful workshop I've ever been to."
        Phyllis Eccles, Special Ed Teacher, Hillsboro Elementary School, Hillsboro, TX

"So many good ideas, I couldn't write fast enough."
        Diana Borg, Teacher, O'Fallon, MO

"Exciting, dynamic speaker, tailored to meet the needs of our group, fast paced."
            Pamela Dean, Superstition Mountain Mental Health, Queen Creek, AZ

"Can't wait to let my staff know about this. Anyone who works with kids needs these strategies."
        Liz Anderson, Supervisor, Diocesan Children's Program

     Read comments and letters from a past sponsors and participants
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Our information-packed professional development workshops and unusual keynote presentations have been stand-outs at hundreds of conferences, school districts, colleges, agencies, institutes, and universities for 20 years including sites like these:

Iowa AEA Reading Teachers' Conference, Americorps Washington State Conference, Wyoming Para-Educators' Conference, Lutheran Family Services Idaho Conference, Patrick Henry Group Homes Conference, Louisiana Families in Need of Services FINS Conference, Vermont Foster and Adoptive Family Conference, California Association for Counseling and Development CACD Conference, Portland Oregonian Newspaper in Education Conference, Kansas Wesleyan Education Conference, Texas Region 10 Principals' Academy Conference, Washington State Primary Intervention Conference, Pennsylvania Children and Family Services Conference. Iowa Whispers and Screams Conference, New Haven CT Children's Center Conference, and Washington County Oregon Juvenile Court Conference.

Workshop Topics      On-Site Workshop Information