Training and Presentations

Training and presentations

The second part of our mission statement – “Train others to replicate our programs” – is a crucial component for sustaining Second Growth’s innovative programs across an ever-widening area.

Second Growth provides training and presentations in four areas:

1. Violence prevention for schools and communities
2. Substance abuse prevention programs for schools and communities
3. Resources for addressing youth suicide – prevention, intervention, violence
4. Curriculum development

When violence, substance abuse, or suicide is a threat to the youth in your community, good help can be hard to find. However, the people who have received the benefit of our assistance will tell you that Second Growth has served them well. We have provided a range services in support of safer and more productive communities in over two hundred fifty sites in nine states. In a manner uncommon in our field, we have built our success on simply “being there” in ways that count, while developing prevention, early intervention, and crisis response resources in the places where we have served. We have kept our promises. Our professional staff members bring more than two decades of practical experience and an engaging style of service to the task of promoting the renewal of hope in the toughest of circumstances. Presenting professional development trainings for a national audience of educators, healthcare providers, social workers, law enforcement professionals, coaches, clergy, and other human service providers, Second Growth has helped good people to do great work. Second Growth offers four kinds of training and presentations:

1. Counseling

Counseling is offered as individual and family sessions ranging from thirty minutes to two hours as needed. We specialize in brief interventions that consist of approximately six sessions for most individuals, as well as on-going support for court involved or school-based situations.

2. Professional development training

Professional Development Trainings are offered in two hour, four hour, or six hour sessions, as well as two or three-day programs. Our programs are available for agency specific audiences of 20-200 participants or open trainings for interdisciplinary groups consisting of individual participants from across the region.

3. School-based presentations

School-based Presentations are offered as a daylong package that includes multiple sessions for individual classrooms during the school day, faculty training after school, and parent forum in the evening.

4. Conference workshops and community presentations

Conference Workshops and Community Presentations are offered as one hour, half-day, and daylong sessions for groups of six to six hundred participants. Our programs for parents and children are among our most popular.

Robert Bryant, Second Growth’s founder and program director, helps professionals in the fields of education, healthcare, public safety and social services, as well as parents and members of the public, to increase safety for adolescents and young adults in their communities. Second Growth offers a wide range of trainings, CEU-credit workshops, presentations and discussions, plus interventions and crisis-response services. PRESENTATIONS In addition, presentations for elementary, middle and high school students; teaching and guidance staffs; and PTOs and community groups brings Second Growth’s teachable, transferable, innovative advocacy for adolescents to locations throughout the northeast, in these topic areas:

• Bullying and harassment
• Dealing with substance abuse and addiction
• Interventions for substance abuse, violence, shoplifting
• Skills for addressing youth violence
• Preventing teen suicide
• Understanding adolescent anger
• Helping youth recognize and develop their assets