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This session will include demonstrations, experiential scenarios, video snippets, and small-group exercises. Among the
activities scheduled, participants will practice identifying and differentiating emotions, practicing a “hot buttons”
strategy, and using effective communication skills. The faculty team for this session will offer a range of perspectives
including a parent who has participated in individual and group PMTO modalities, her 11-year-old daughter who will
share her perspective on some of the changes in their family, a purveyor of the model, and statewide and regional
coordinators of PMTO in Michigan who are also trainers, coaches, and clinicians.
MODERATOR/PRESENTER: Luann Gray, M.S.W., Michigan State PMTO Coordinator, Kalamazoo Community
Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Kalamazoo, MI
Catherine Beagle, L.M.S.W., A.C.S.W., Program Supervisor, Community Mental Health for Central Michigan, Big
Rapids, MI
Laura Hinkle, Parent, Community Mental Health for Central Michigan, Big Rapids, MI
Laura Rains, M.S.W., M.A., Director of Implementation and Training, Implementation Sciences International, Inc.,
Eugene, OR
INSTITUTE #8 1:30 PM THURSDAY • 8:30 AM SATURDAY • SUN D
The RENEW Model: An Evidence-Informed Intervention for Youth
and Young Adults of Transition Age
OBJECTIVES—Participants will learn:
1. How to implement the RENEW futures planning process using graphic facilitation
2. To implement specific strategies for engaging youth with personal futures planning techniques
3. To link the goals and needs expressed by each youth to the development of an individualized team
4. To apply basic team facilitation techniques with youth at the center of the process
5. To explain how career development and youth engagement activities are linked with youth self-efficacy
and self-advocacy
This Institute will focus on a youth-driven, transition application of wraparound that has been implemented in New
Hampshire since 1996. This model, RENEW (Rehabilitation for Empowerment, Natural supports, Education, and Work)
engages, supports, and teaches youth how to find relevance in school, participate in employment, develop and pursue
plans for post-high school activities, and helps each youth create critical social and community resources through
individualized team facilitation.
Faculty will highlight person-centered “futures “ planning using graphic facilitation, team development and facilitation
with youth as leaders of the team, and strategies to develop school-to-career activities based upon each youth’s futures
plan. Personal “futures planning” involves facilitation of a structured conversation with each youth and documenting the
youth’s ideas, perceptions, and concerns on flip charts over the course of several meetings. Individual team facilitators
use specific strategies and skills to ensure that team members contribute positively to each youth’s goal achievement.
During this Institute participants will learn how to conduct the futures planning process and how to prepare and support
youth and team members for individual team meetings. Participants will also learn how to develop highly individualized
action plans for the transition of youth into young adulthood.
Specific topics to be covered include:
• Youth-driven goal setting and voice in the planning process
• How youth who participate in the youth-driven process begin to construct positive self-views and take more positive
steps towards their future goals
• How graphic facilitation is conducted
• The major features and skills required to facilitate productive youth-driven team meetings
• How to engage family members, teachers, counselors, school administrators, employers and other community
members to help each youth
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