Alongside my good friend and writing partner Rich Van Pelt, I did three eight-hour Critical Concern Courses at Youth Specialties' National Youth Workers Conventions this fall in Sacramento, Pittsburgh and Nashville.
The course is based on our new book, The Youth Worker's Guide to Helping Teenagers in Crisis — which is based on our lives' work with youth workers, adolescents and their families (not to mention a pretty thorough literature review). The response is both heartening (because people are reacting so positively to the book and the Critical Concern Course) and disheartening (because the need is so much greater than we wish).
You can download (free) the Nashville slides here.
You'll find free access to end notes from the book — including State Sex Offender Registries and Sex Abuse Reporting numbers at the Youth Specialties website.
You can download (free) the chapter on Terror (it's a primer on preparing for and responding to human-caused and natural terror) here.
Finally, the Crisis Book is available at the Youth Specialties Online Store as well as all the usual places.
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