We provide training to community agencies in the following areas:

This training is offered to employees during their first year. It includes an introduction to topics such as child development, relationship building, discipline, working with families culture of care, introduction to trauma,documentation, and vicarious trauma. 

The Therapeutic Crisis Intervention training program for child and youth care employees presents a crisis prevention and intervention model designed to teach employees how to help children/young people learn constructive ways to handle crisis.

The Therapeutic Crisis Intervention training program for child and youth care employees presents a crisis prevention and intervention model designed to teach employees how to help children/young people learn constructive ways to handle crisis.

The ability of the entire organization to respond effectively to employees and children/young people in crisis situations is critical in establishing not only a safe environment, but also one that promotes growth and development.

The skills, knowledge, and professional judgement of employees in responding to crisis are critical factors in helping young people learn constructive and adaptive ways to cope with stress and painful feelings.
 

Waypoints TCI facilitators as listed have been certified by the Residential Child Care Project, Cornell University:  Natalie Bursey, Mike Drohan , Jeff Gollop, Renee Piercey and Renee Broderick.

Kelly Hanlon - Professional Level Certification

ASIST is a two-day intensive, interactive and practice-dominated course designed to help caregivers recognize and review risk, and intervene to prevent the immediate risk of suicide. Waypoints facilitators are certified by LivingWorks.

Certified trainers:  Jennifer Kettle, Annette Williams and Paul Power 

 MHFA Adults who Interact with Youth is intended for an adult audience whose primary focus is youth (aged 14-25). In addition to the four most common disorders in MHFA BASIC, this course includes instruction about eating disorders and deliberate self-injury. Participants who take this course are well prepared to interact confidently about mental health with the young people in their lives, including at schools, extra-curricula activities, social services, family, friends and communities.

Certified Trainer:  Renee Piercey

Children can experience a variety of adverse life events which can have lasting effect on their behavior and their way of being in the world. This training will provide an introduction to the impact of traumatic events on the developing brain and attachment. It will also discuss trauma informed intervention strategies that are intended to enhance a child’s ability to self-regulate.

Waypoints Trauma training is facilitated by our Starr Certified Trauma Practitioners:  Natalie Ginn and Renee Piercey

This training focuses on involving families in Group Care, and working effectively with families. Specific topics include principles of family support, defining family, cultural issues, strengths-based interventions, systems theory, understanding family dynamics, dealing with resistance, goal setting, and intervention planning.

Trainers: Jennifer Kettle and Kelly Hanlon

The Therapeutic Use of Daily Life Events Model is designed to help the direct care practitioner become more effective in daily interactions with young people and families. Through a focus on everyday events and how these events connect to the overall goals established with children, youth and families the direct care practitioner adopts a more proactive approach in intervention. Daily Life Events offers the potential to make every moment with children, youth and families more meaningful.

Certified trainers: Natalie Bursey

St. John Ambulance First-Aid Training is widely recognized as the industry leader in First-Aid and CPR training with a combination of professional trainers, personalized instruction, how-to videos and learn as you go training guides. Trained instructors within Waypoints offer both employees and young people the necessary first-aid training. The employees are required to complete a two-day Standard Level B training which includes Infant and Child CPR and are required to be re-certified every three years.

The Instructors are also certified in a one-day Emergency Level A First-Aid with CPR.

Certified trainers: Natalie Ginn, Rindala Maroun and Frank Murphy