Strategies to Empower and Support Children and Youth with ADHD
This lab provides hands-on approaches that participants can use to help children & youth process their emotions and work through life-altering traumatic events.
Course Overview
This three-hour, intermediate-level training is designed for social workers, counselors, psychologists, educators, and other human service professionals working with children and families. The seminar explores the foundations of self-esteem in children and youth—especially those most vulnerable—and equips participants with tools to foster confidence, resilience, and healthy identity.
Participants will be able to:
Identify Influences on Self-Esteem: Recognize personal, relational, and societal factors shaping children and youth’s self-esteem.
Apply Strategies to Build and Protect Self-Esteem: Use techniques such as affirming feedback, agency-building, and supportive environments.
Address and Heal Wounds to Self-Esteem: Respond to injuries such as criticism, exclusion, or systemic barriers in ways that foster resilience and positive identity.
What people are saying about this trainer:
"Love the interactives! I plan to use the interactives when training the foster and adoptive parents I work with to help them understand trauma in a different way.”
Tammy H.
"Trainer was amazing, patient, thoughtful, and so interactive, which was helpful.”
Erika V.
Jim Still-Pepper, MA, LSW
Jim is the Director of Community Based Clinical Services at Allwell Behavioral Health Services Inc., a community mental health center where he has worked for over 3 decades striving to get clinical services out of the centers, and into the community.
Jim is the founder of Still Light Seminars LLC, a motivational training and consulting company; he has trained nationally and internationally focusing on the mental health, and care of, children and adolescents.
He is also an adjunct instructor in Ashland University’s Founders School of Continuing Education. He develops online courses around behavioral interventions and understanding the mental health of students.
Jim has also authored or co-authored 7 books and has written almost 100 articles. On a side note, he has had numerous poems published, and his artwork and photography have appeared in galleries, magazines, and on greeting cards.
