PS: It Works! Strengths Based Communication Skills Professional Training

PS: It Works! Strengths Based Communication Skills Professional Training is a 2-day workshop that teaches five communication skills (Encouragement, Can Do, Shared Decision Making, Self-Control, Respecting Feelings), and will prepare professionals to reinforce the use of the five skills with clients, and to conduct or make referrals to the PS: It Works! Series or the Parenting Styles Workshop Series. Past workshop participants include: parenting educators, DSS personnel, social workers, teachers, child care providers, mental health professionals, alcohol & drug rehab counselors, human service workers, counselors, coaches, people working with children/adults/families, etc.

This Training is based on the Parenting Skills Workshop Series© curriculum - a Cornell Cooperative Extension publication. The program model is easily replicable, inexpensive, and builds upon partnerships among agencies.* The 2-day training includes:

Discussion and practice of the five Parenting Skills Workshop Series skills: Encouragement, Can Do, Shared Decision Making, Self Control, Respecting Feelings.

An in-depth introduction to skillstreaming.

Active participation and practice within small groups.

Experience leading parenting groups.

Overview of evaluation and measurement tools.

*This program is optimally based on a co-facilitator model. Training activities will demonstrate this approach. It is advantageous for more than one person from an agency to attend the training.

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