During this training, participants will learn about the physical, cognitive, and social-emotional developmental trends that are associated with different age-groups (K-8) and how these trends relate to day-to-day programming.

Also available as an eLearning training.

This module supports participants in exploring how to build positive, meaningful relationship with children and youth, in order to plan programs that best meet their needs and support the development of social-emotional skills and character building.

Also available as an eLearning training. 

During this training, participants will learn about effective and dynamic communication tools, strategies to check for understanding, and activities that engage young people in communication to support their social-emotional development and character building.

Also available as an eLearning training. 

During this training, participants will learn about the qualities of healthy self-esteem and some strategies for supporting young people as they develop positive self-esteem.

This training will give participants an understanding of the importance of working with children/youth to develop interpersonal skills, social awareness and teach them practical strategies for supporting this development. 

During this training, participants will discuss what it means to be professional in the world of afterschool and learn how to support the families of the children and youth that they serve.

During this training, participants will develop strategies for observing children/youth and how to use those observations to understand behavior and develop appropriate programming.

During this training, participants will learn the importance of meeting the social-emotional and developmental needs of children and youth, and strategies to make sure that their needs are being met.

During this training, participants will deepen their understanding of physical, cognitive, and social-emotional developmental trends and how to determine whether activities are developmentally appropriate for different age groups.

This training will provide participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to prevent unwanted behavior by meeting the physical and social-emotional needs of children and youth before they act out.

Also available as an eLearning training.

This training will provide participants with the knowledge and skills to be able to problem solve behavior concerns in their program, and help children and youth gain skills to solve problems. 

To gain greater confidence in guiding behavior, staff must look at their personal actions and reactions to the behaviors of the children and youth with whom they work. This helps build social-emotional skills in both staff and children and youth.

Also available as an eLearning training. 

Participants will gain skills for effective supervision of children/ youth by examining expected outcomes of working with children/youth, using tools for communicating expectations and applying techniques for dealing with problem behaviors.

During this training, participants will discuss the challenges of children and youth with disruptive behavior and learn strategies for effectively addressing these behaviors.

Also available as an eLearning training. 

During this training, participants will gain understanding of a child/youth’s temperament by exploring philosophies on how to build self-management, self-awareness, foster friendships, develop social awareness and interpersonal skills, make developmentally-appropriate choices, understand natural/logical consequences, and to help them take responsibility for behaviors.

During this training, participants will learn about the six developmental categories and how to plan thematic curriculum for out-of-school-time programs.

During this training, participants will understand the importance of the delivery and debriefing of an activity to help children/youth make meaning. This module is available as an on-site training and eLearning training. 

Also available as an eLearning training. 

During this training, participants will look at schedules to determine if they are providing both sufficient structure yet flexibility to accommodate a wide range of activities and address the social-emotional, physical, and skill building needs of children and youth.

During this training, participants will learn what evaluation is and why it is important for programs. They will also learn the principles of evaluation in order to begin to develop evaluation criteria for their own program and gain tools to meet the Continuous Quality Improvement standard for Expanded Learning Programs in California.

Also available as eLearning training. 

During this training, participants will practice an analysis of program elements and look at other self-study strategies. These tools will help programs to meet the Continuous Quality Improvement standard for Expanded Learning Programs in California.

This training will provide participants the opportunity to explore their own relationship to safety and support, set group agreements for the series, and discover their FRAME. 

Also available as an eLearning training.

During this training participants will further explore their “FRAMES” created in module 3.5.1 and explore diversity through the use of quotations and small group discussions.

This training deeply explores privilege in order to help participants develop their own self-awareness around their privilege and how it impacts their work with children and youth. There is only one activity for the entire training.

This topic exposes participants to the multiple ways privilege and power play out in the form of oppression. Participants will reflect on how privilege, power, and oppression play out in their lives and how they connect to their work with children and youth.

During this training, participants will explore the impact of cliques in their programs, how they are formed, how they affect individual children and youth, and how they impact the safe and supportive program environment.

This module was revised in 2016 to incorporate social-emotional learning, character building and Quality Standards for Expanded Learning in California as part of CalSAC's work with the Expanded Learning 360/365 project. 

During this training, participants will reflect on their own identity, and address the extent to which culture impacts their lives and the lives of children/youth. They will also develop their social awareness skills by critically evaluating the ways in which individuals of diverse backgrounds relate to one another.

Also available as an eLearning training. 

During this training, participants will address issues that prevent the program from creating an environment that embraces diversity, access and equity. Participants will attempt to develop strategies that support that environment.

During this training, participants will examine how to implement activities designed to promote cultural sensitivity, diversity and/or equity understanding and support self- and social awareness among children and youth.