Services

• Utilize our custom Wellness Assessment Tool to analyze mental, emotional, and social health policies and procedures
• Evaluate how current policies, procedures, and training align to create and ensure safe environments
• Provide a written report on areas of strength and opportunities for improvement
• Present findings to agency leadership and board at the request of the organization

• Revise current and/or create new policies and procedures in accordance with local and national laws and best practices to support the mental, emotional, and social health needs of children and staff
• Policies and procedures customized to fit the YSO, its culture, and needs

• Available for youth serving professionals, parents and community members, and children and teens
• Developed and customized to reflect organizational policies and procedures, organizational culture, and local laws
• Customized trainings upon request
• Available trainings include:
  • Mandated Reporter Training
    • Local mandated reporting laws
    • Definitions of child abuse (including physical, sexual, emotional abuse, neglect, and human trafficking)
    • Signs and symptoms of abuse
    • Working with youth safely
  • Recognizing and Responding to Red Flags
    • Typical adolescent development
    • Mental health diagnoses in childhood and adolescence
    • Warning signs of mental health challenges
    • Strategies for recognition and intervention
  • Building Healthy Boundaries
    • Role of staff in the lives of youth
    • Relationship building between youth and adults
    • Building and maintaining appropriate, observable, interruptible boundaries with youth
    • Recognizing red flag behavior
    • Empowering teens and staff to utilize safe practices
  • Building Safe Environments
    • Role of youth serving organizations with regards to youth mental, emotional, social health
    • Best practices to ensure the mental, emotional, and social health of youth
    • Implementing best practices at your YSO
    • Evaluating your physical site to ensure safe practices
  • Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA)
    • How to identify, understand and respond to signs of mental illnesses and substance use disorders
    • Common mental health challenges for youth, typical adolescent development, and teaches a 5-step action plan for how to help young people in both crisis and non-crisis situations
    • 6.5-hour course that can be taught in-person or virtually
  • Teen Mental Health First Aid (tMHFA)
    • Teaches teens how to identify, understand and respond to signs of mental health and substance use challenges in their peers
    • Common mental health challenges for youth, and teaches a 5-step action plan for how to help their peers in both crisis and non-crisis situations
    • Three-part course of 90 minutes each or six parts of 45 minutes each
  • Managing Empathic Strain, Secondary Traumatic Stress, and Burnout
    • Provides definitions for empathic strain, secondary traumatic stress, and burnout
    • Warning signs and symptoms of these challenges
    • How to address these challenges
    • Tools for building boundaries and rebounding from strain
  • Supporting Teen Behavior and Mindful Masculinity
    • Dynamics and development of adolescent males
    • Relationship building with male-identifying youth and staff
    • Building a healthy community culture
    • Getting the best out of male-identifying youth and staff

BBYO-CAW staff regularly consult on issues and crises within organizations as they arise. YSOs may contact the Center for a free 30-minute assessment and then purchase hours based on the issue at hand.