Continuing Education
This Year's Continuing Education Courses: Our intensive continuing education offerings are endorsed by many as an ideal learning format. Summer Institute in Adolescent Health
Social and Emotional Health for all Young People: Expanding Approaches  - Earn Graduate Credit: 2 credit course (graduate students only)
- Earn Contact Hours
Social and emotional health for all young people. Connections to supportive environments - in families, in schools, and in communities - promote the building of healthy pathways into adulthood. And, we are beginning to understand more about other vital requirements for mental well-being - safety, sleep, sunlight, and sustenance, intertwined with exercise and ample opportunities for self-expression. Unfortunately, we have neglected to assure these fundamentals for all young people. Many youth have been invisible, overlooked, and left on their own to wade through tough times - when stresses overwhelm, change comes at inopportune moments, and supportive environments are stretched thin. At these times, reclaiming health requires approaches extending beyond conventional services that, we know, aren't fully meeting young people's needs. At the 2009 Summer Institute in Adolescent Health, learn strategies for enhancing supportive environments and fostering skills for social and emotional health. Gather ideas for adding to what's already working, whether in a community clinic or youth program, at school or after-school, within a residential center or a juvenile justice setting. Practice skills for selecting optimal approaches for reaching young people, all of whom we hope are on healthy social and emotional pathways to adulthood. Who should attend? All who work with young people - teachers, coaches, and administrators; nurses, physicians, nutritionists, psychologists, social workers, counselors, and youth workers; religious leaders and policy makers. For questions contact: baum0272@umn.edu.
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