Street Work with High-Risk Youth

This 2-day workshop is for youth service workers, supervisors, and administrators in health and human service agencies, as well as staff working with adults in nontraditional settings, including outreach workers in AIDS programs, homeless shelters, and elsewhere. The workshop presents the basic elements of successful street work with high-risk youth and advanced techniques for planning outreach and sustaining contact with clients. The course suggests ways to meet and develop relationships with youth on their own turf and explores ways to develop the youth worker's strengths and style.

Learning Objectives

The objectives are:
  1. identify the principles and techniques of planning and initiating outreach to high-risk youth;

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  2. use your interpersonal skills to engage and sustain relationships with clients in nontraditional settings; and

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  3. understand the concepts needed to organize, support, and sustain street work functions within health and human service agencies.