Events

Youth Specialties is offering its Spring Traning: The CORE 2007

TOPIC: Helping Hurting Kids

Session 1: Understanding Their Hidden Hurts

Session 2: Critical Skills for Tackling the Tough Stuff

Session 3: Successful Response Strategies

This training is essential for anyone working with teenagers. The content was developed by Marv Penner and Rich Van Pelt, who have each spent several decades in youth ministry. Marv chairs the youth and family ministry department at Briercrest Bible College and Seminary in Saskatchewan, Canada. He’s the author of Help! My Kids are Hurting!, and is working on a new book on the topic of cutting. Rich was integral in the crisis response and healing after the Columbine shootings, and has spent more than ten years working with the juvenile corrections department in Colorado. He’s the co-author of The Youth Worker’s Guide to Helping Teenagers in Crisis.