Booster: Express Care
Caring for young people is the foundation for our work. However, they might not feel or recognize that care if we don’t express it clearly and consistently. How can we be more effective and more practical in expressing care? Meet with others to explore what care means—and revitalize your own strength-based approach with young people.
“I am a huge task-oriented person, so DR elements like Challenging Growth has always come super easily to me. But Expressing Care hasn’t. So, having the opportunity to reflect and look at these five elements and really dive into them and assess their importance has helped me build up skills in these other areas.”
Practitoner
Youth-Serving Organization
Learning Objectives
- Define the core actions and benefits associated with the Express Care element of Developmental Relationships.
- Reflect on the mindsets that shape how we relate to young people in our context using the Express Care element of Developmental Relationships.
- Co-create an action plan to integrate Express Care into your daily practices and procedures.
Outcomes
Participants will leave with practical insights on how to express care with young people as well as a clear plan to apply this element of the Developmental Relationships Framework to their own context.
Who should attend?
Practitioners, managers, and leaders.
This workshop is also a helpful follow up to It Takes Each of Us: Cultivating Developmental Relationships.
Delivery Method
Virtual or In-Person
90 minutes
Make Your Case
Professional Learning Request Template
To support your professional growth, we’re providing a helpful template you can use to request approval to attend Search Institute’s professional learning experiences. This template makes it easy to communicate the value of research-based strategies for building developmental relationships, engaging families, and promoting positive youth development—and how these skills can directly benefit your work and organization.
Additional Professional Learning Opportunities
Booster: Share Power
It Takes Each of Us: Cultivating Developmental Relationships
Develop an individual approach to developmental relationships by reflecting on mindsets, actions and growth areas, while also planning next steps to build developmental relationships within your specific context to promote youth thriving.