Working with Youth
  • Type Learning
  • Level Foundational
  • Time Hours
  • Cost Free

Working with Youth

Issued by FHI 360

Working with Youth is a four-hour orientation and training session for Johnson & Johnson local operating company employees (BTE Volunteers) who are new to the BTE program and working with youth. Key concepts include: positive youth development, effective communication, active listening, and relationship-building practices.

  • Type Learning
  • Level Foundational
  • Time Hours
  • Cost Free

Skills

Earning Criteria

  • Reflection and Pair-Share Activity: Fact or Fiction? Myth or Truth?:  Through this self-reflection and pair-share activity, participants identify and dispel myths or preconceived notions about adolescents and their actions.
  • When I Was 15: In this assessment, participants identify the principles of positive youth development and how the "3Ps" (people, places, and purpose) are essential to building youth competencies. 
  • Success Letter: Participants write a letter to an individual that supported the development of their knowledge, skills and abilities, articulating how the individual exhibited the five elements of the Developmental Relationship Framework.  
  • Tell Your Story: Participants role play an introductory meeting with BTE youth.
  • What Did You Say?: During this Learning Activity, participants will practice different communication and active listening techniques. 
  • Scenario Discussion: Participants read a scenario about a J&J  Volunteer and BTE Student and correctly identify the positive youth development practices that were utilized, as well as make recommendations for how the developmental framework could be used to build a more effective relationship.