training for youth workers, teachers and social workers

Here’s a unique opportunity to gain practical skills experiencing a day of HIPP training with youth followed by a day learning how to facilitate HIPP activities.  Adults who register may bring 1-3 youth. 

HIPP, Help Increase the Peace Program, Training

for social workers, teachers, youth workers and teen leaders. HIPP practices make schools and programs safe and respectful. HIPP gives youth and adults peaceable inter-personal with activities that teach them:

• To be inclusive, accepting and respecting all people regardless of differences
  
• To demonstrate respectful attitudes and behaviors that promote mutual respect
  
• To communicate effectively, listening actively and empathetically
  
•  To resolve conflict peaceably without abuse or violence
  
•   To build more trust between individuals and among groups of people
  
• To cooperate and collaborate with others to find creative solutions to problems
  

                  

     Sponsored by YES and PACSI, UMass Lowell’s Peace and Conflict Studies Institute

           

     Facilitated by Barbara Hildt, YES Senior Trainer with a Young HIPP Co-Trainer

 

Tuesday August 19^th   &   Wednesday August 20^th, 2008

 

Day 1  –  Basic HIPP Training for Teens & Adults.   9 a.m. – 4 p.m.

 

Day 2  – HIPP Leaders Skills only for adults who attended day one. 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.

 

Northern Essex Community College

Bentley Library Conference Room, Haverhill Campus

 

Tuition: Youth Workers and Teachers earning PDPs - $100; Licensed Social Workers earning CEUs - $150; Youth - $20.  

 

For more information or to inquire about scholarships, call 978 388-3647 or email Barbara@EmpowertheYouth.org .  HIPP Manuals will be available for $35.