19th Annual Reclaiming Youth Conference

Rushmore Plaza Holiday Inn, Rapid City, South Dakota

June 23-26, 2012   (Conference starts at 2:00 on June 23rd)

 
Reclaiming Youth International hosts Martin Brokenleg, Steve Van Bockern and Mark Freado invite you to recharge your spirits in the inspirational setting of the Black Hills of South Dakota.

The Reclaiming Youth Conference offers practical skills for success with our most challenging children and youth. Presentations will tackle the difficult issues of youth violence, classroom discipline, racism, substance abuse, families in crisis and development of support systems.

Pre-registration and pre-payment are required for all trainings and events at the Black Hills Seminars.

How to Register:

* Register online with a credit card. CLICK HERE to register online.

* Print a registration form and fax to 605-647-5212. (Printable form is at the bottom of this page.)

Restoring Respect: RAP Training 

June 21-22, 2012

Rushmore Plaza Holiday Inn,  Rapid City, South Dakota

 
"To meet life's challenges, all children need adults and peers who respond to their needs rather than react to problem behavior." --Dr. Larry Brendtro, co-author RAP training

RAP offers “essential training” for dealing with challenging children and youth.

Response Ability Pathways™ – or simply RAP – provides essential strength-based strategies for all who deal with young persons in family, school, or community. Children and youth need supportive persons who respond to their needs rather than react to their problems. RAP provides these response-abilities which enable one to guide young persons on pathways to responsibility.

Developmental Audit®

June 21 - 22, 2012

Rushmore Plaza Holiday Inn,  Rapid City, South Dakota

Developmental Audit® : Strategies for Strength-Based Assessment

The Developmental Audit® offers a fresh alternative to traditional deficit-based assessment. Professionals will learn how to engage the young person as a primary data source and full participant in this reflective and restorative process. The Audit teaches practitioners how to involve young persons who are in conflict to join in the process of solving problems and finding solutions, and is particularly relevant where youth are at risk for removal from school or placement in restrictive settings.

All children need opportunities for belonging, mastery, independence and generosity, components of the Circle of Courage resilience model. When these growth needs are blocked, the youth is at risk. By addressing these universal needs, a young person is able to take pathways to responsibility.

Deep Brain Learning®

June 20, 2012

Rushmore Plaza Holiday Inn,  Rapid City, South Dakota USA

Life Space Crisis Intervention Training

Rushmore Plaza Holiday Inn, Rapid City, South Dakota

June 18-22, 2012

Advanced reclaiming skills for children and youth involved in self-defeating patterns of behavior.

What is Life Space Crisis Intervention?

LSCI is a therapeutic strategy for using crisis situations as opportunities to help students learn alternatives to patterns of aggressive, disrespectful, or self-demeaning behavior. LSCI is being successfully used by teachers, counselors, alternative and special educators, mental health and juvenile justice staff, residential child care professionals, administrators, and others who deal directly with youth in conflict in family, school and community. LSCI blends psycho-dynamic, cognitive, behavioral and pro-social methods to develop powerful teaching and treatment interventions for our most challenging youth.

Circle of Courage® Model - 1/2 Day Workshop

Saturday, June 23, 2012  8:00 a.m. - Noon

Rushmore Plaza Holiday Inn, Rapid City, South Dakota

Reclaiming Youth International will be conducting a half-day Circle of Courage® Model workshop prior to our 19th annual Black Hills Reclaiming Youth Conference. Larry Brendtro, Martin Brokenleg, and Steve Van Bockern, authors of Reclaiming Youth At Risk and developers of the Circle of Courage® Model are pleased to host this informational and inspirational event once again.