Child and Youth Development Online Trainings
Appropriate for New Frontline Staff
STEP 1: The Program Director (or Site Leader) selects topic.
STEP 2: The Program Director (or Site Leader) previews the video content (via web link)
to ensure it fits their intended need, and that it can be accessed by your technology.
STEP 3: The Program Director (or Site Leader) sends link and instructions to staff
member with timeline for completing online training and assessment.
STEP 4: Program Director (or Site Leader) reviews the assessment with the staff member
and asks for feedback regarding the training.
STEP 5: Keep track of the lessons completed by each staff member, as they build a
resume of professional training and evidence of your programs efforts to provide
professional development opportunities for your staff.
Edge Up University (Ventura County Office of Education)
Participants are asked to sign up and create a password, but it is absolutely free! Strategies for
classroom management seen in these clips are based on a core day classroom. However, the
tips easily translate into an after school setting.
http://www.vcoe.org/afterschool/OnlineProfessionalDevelopment.aspx
Scroll down to find and click on Classroom Management to access the following
segments/topics.
Topic
Source
Length
Assessment
Ask 3, then Me
Multiple
Intelligences
New Teacher
Survival Guide:
Classroom
Management
Pat on the Back
Attention Getter
Power of Praise
Fist to Five
Establishing a
Culture
Without Saying a
Word
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/ask-3then-me
http://www.edutopia.org/multiple-intelligencesimmersion-enota-video
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/newteacher-classroom-management
1 minute
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/positiveclassroom-culture
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/studentattention-getting-technique
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/positivefeedback-to-students
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/gettinginstant-student-feedback
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/establish
-classroom-culture
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/silentattention-getting-technique
2 minutes
10
minutes
12
minutes
2 minutes
3 minutes
1 minute
2 minutes
1 minute
Reflection
Guide
Reflection
Guide
Reflection
Guide
Reflection
Guide
Reflection
Guide
Reflection
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Reflection
Guide
California After School Resource Center (CASRC)
Free on line training modules. Click on the link that follows each description of the topic.
Topic
Mental, Emotional,
and Social Health
MESH) - It Matters
Understanding Child
and Adolescent
Development
Cook with Kids
Source
Learn guiding principles to support the mental,
emotional, and social health of youths. Participants
will learn about social and emotional learning
(S.E.L.) competencies and how S.E.L. activities can
be implemented in after school programs.
http://www.casrcchkrcetrainings.org/register?module=Mental_Emot
ional_and_Social_Health_MESH_-_It_Matters
This module will offer an overview of child and
adolescent development milestones for ages four
through eighteen. Participants will recognize what
students may and may not be able to do at various
stages with regard to physical abilities,
communication, thinking and social skills. Based on
this information participants will obtain tips for
providing appropriate activities for students of
varying ages and ability levels. A special focus will
be placed on providing activities that build physical
and language development, as well as social skills.
http://www.casrcchkrcetrainings.org/register?module=Understandin
g_Child_and_Adolescent_Development
Learn how cooking with children benefits their
health and school performance. Follow four simple
steps to plan, prepare, and present a successful
cooking activity for your classroom or after school
program. Access the cooking event planner, key
tips, and resources to keep students safe while
cooking. This module is Network for a Healthy
California allowable.
http://www.casrcchkrcetrainings.org/register?module=Cook_with_Ki
ds
Length
20
minutes
Assessment
Quiz and
Certificate of
Completion
30
minutes
Quiz and
Certificate of
Completion
30
minutes
Quiz and
Certificate of
Completion
The Youth Development Institute is a series of online training courses for youth-serving
paraprofessionals and volunteers seeking to increase their knowledge and enhance their skills. The
Partnership offers 20 different courses, each of which takes about 1-2 hours to complete and contains
links to outside reading materials, websites and video clips that illustrate the main concepts. A
Community Forum allows users to share ideas with other course-takers. Courses are self-directed,
allowing users to stop and start at their convenience. Individuals who successfully complete a course (by
clicking through all pages and passing a quiz) receive a course completion certificate.
http://www.partnershipuniversity.org/youth-development-institute-ydi-course-descriptions
Topic
Overview of Positive
Youth Development
Approach
Adolescent
Development
Source
It is only recently that youth development theory
became a prevailing ideology in youth
programming. The idea of focusing on intervention
has now turned into supporting youth before
behaviors become problems. Supporting youth
development, for any age youth, is key to ensure a
healthy and well adjusted youth. In this course you
will learn about risk factors, prevention factors and
how to build resiliency in today's youth through
quality youth programming.
Topics:
 History and Evolution of Positive Youth
Development
 Positive Youth Development in Theory
 Positive Youth Development in Practice
What you will learn:
 Understand the history and evolution of
positive youth development
 Understand risk and protective factors
 Be familiar with 40 developmental assets
 Understand the concept of resiliency
 Recognize the essential elements of youth
development
 Recognize the core constructs of youth
development
 Understand strategies for building positive
youth development in programming
This course provides background on adolescent
brain development, the role of self-concept and
self-esteem in identity development, how youth
respond to puberty, and what youth workers can
do to be supportive during this time of change.
Topics:
 Defining Adolescence
 Physical Development
 Cognitive Development
 Emotional Development
 Social Development
What you will learn:
 Identify the approximate age range of
adolescence;
 Identify the two main components of
puberty;
 Recognize the physical changes that occur
during puberty;
 Identify three factors that could impact
how youth respond to the changes of
puberty;
 Define cognitive development;
 Describe adolescent cognitive abilities;
Length
90
minutes
Assessment
Short Quiz
60
minutes
Short Quiz

Topic
Age Appropriate
Discipline
Identify the two main tasks of emotional
development
 Understand the role of self concept and
self esteem in the role of identity
development;
 Identify three groups that may experience
differences with regard to emotional
development;
 Identify the three groups that impact
adolescent social development.
Source
Although the title of this course uses the common
term "discipline," this course will teach you that a
child learns more through guidance and positive
behavior support. Throughout this course we will
be using those very terms. This course will also
teach about how to respond to youth who struggle
with behavior, and how we as youth service
providers can work with youth who exhibit
challenging or inappropriate behaviors.
Topics:
 Understand "typical" behavior
 Challenging Behavior, Provider Response
 Prevention and discipline techniques
What you will learn :
 Identify what behavior is typical for the
physical, social, and emotional
development for children and youth
 Identify some reasons why youth exhibit
behavior challenges and how youth service
providers should respond
 Explore and implement prevention and
positive guidance techniques to redirect
inappropriate behavior
Length
120
minutes
Assessment
Short Quiz