KEY Training

When: Wednesday, May 25 - 11:00 AM

Duration: 3 hours

Location: Zoom

Event Details:

Transition age youth, especially those with mental health challenges, are a particularly vulnerable population.  The developmental challenges of adolescence and early adulthood, as well as the transition from child-serving to
adult-serving systems can present many difficult choices that they often have to make with limited information or support.

Knowledge Empowers You (KEY) is a psychoeducational, workbook-based program with more than 20 sessions addressing a wide range of topics that are relevant to the lives of transition-age youth, ages 16-24. Topics include stress and coping, relationships, school and work, mental and physical health, and substance use.  KEY was developed to be consistent with culturally responsive, trauma-informed and resilience building principles. It is designed to be implemented as a group intervention but can also be used individually.

The Community Technical Assistance Center (CTAC) is very excited to offer individual practitioners, agencies and programs serving transition age youth in New York State an opportunity to receive KEY training.  

Participants in the training will receive information about the program, strategies for using the materials, and details about the content. They will receive PDFs of the workbook and will be responsible for printing and distributing hardcopies to the young people they serve. However, materials can be used electronically and the intervention could be delivered virtually.

KEY can be delivered by clinicians, paraprofessionals or peers but it is strongly recommended that it be co-facilitated if implemented as a group intervention.  It can also be implemented as part of an integrated service plan to address the needs of transition-age youth with a program or agency.  Agencies or programs serving transition-age youth are encouraged to attend the training as a team.

Following registration for this event, participants will be sent a follow up email containing the electronic materials.