This series of 9 free, e-learning modules targets staff working with homeless youth. The modules were created as part of the Community Trauma Treatment Center for Runaway and Homeless Youth, funded by SAMHSA’s National Child Traumatic Stress Network.
Online Module Catalog
Adolescent Development
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This module provides an overview of key adolescent developmental tasks, the impact of trauma and homelessness on development, and how to help youth get back on track.
Adolescent Risk Behavior – Self Injurious Behaviors and Suicide
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This module defines self-injurious behaviors and describes why some adolescents self-injure. This module also provides an overview of youth suicide, including risk factors and how youth service workers can respond to suicidal youth.
Adolescent Risk Behavior – Sexually-Related Risks
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This module describes normative adolescent sexual behavior and how past traumatic experiences can influence the sexual behavior of young people. This module also identifies the role of youth service workers in promoting healthy adolescent sexuality.
Adolescent Risk Behavior – Substance Abuse
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This module provides an overview of substance use among adolescents and the connection between trauma and substance use for runaway and homeless youth. This module describes the difference between harm reduction and abstinence based treatment approaches and strategies that can help support youth with substance use issues.
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Youth
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This module provides an introduction to sexual orientation and gender identity and reviews issues of risk and resilience in the LGBTQ population.
Legal and Ethical Issues
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This module reviews basic principles of ethical work with runaway and homeless youth and discusses key concepts such as confidentiality and boundary-setting.
Resiliency
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This module provides an overview of resiliency and identifies strategies that staff can use to build and support resiliency.
Runaway and Homeless Youth
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This module provides an overview of the causes and consequences of youth homelessness.
Trauma and Runaway and Homeless Youth
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This module provides an overview of the connection between trauma and homelessness for youth and basic psycho-education about the impact of trauma on adolescent development.