YFTI is offering a series of webinars and trainings to provide the workforce across Pennsylvania resources for cross-system collaboration that will enhance their skills, building confidence and competence in any role they serve in their local community.
These topics will be presented in a 90-minute webinar format on Zoom and can also be delivered as half-day trainings to a targeted workforce in your community upon request.
The topics include:
Family Driven Action Planning
November 19, 2025 – 12:00 to 1:30 p.m.
Are you looking for more effective ways to support youth and families in your work? Join us for a dynamic webinar on Family Driven Action Planning, an intentional process that centers the strengths, needs, and priorities of youth and their families. This family teaming approach helps build plans that are not only more effective—but also more likely to be implemented.
Creating Positive Workplace Cultures for Family Peers
December 17, 2025 – 12:00 to 1:30 p.m.
Curious about how to meaningfully include family voice in your workforce? Join us for a powerful webinar on Creating Positive Workplace Cultures for Family Peers, where we’ll explore what it truly takes to incorporate family members with lived experience as peer staff within child-serving systems.
Family Voice in Action: Navigating Meetings that Shape Your Future
January 21, 2026 – 12:00 to 1:30 p.m.
Do you want to feel more confident and empowered in meetings about your family’s needs and care? Join us for a webinar designed specifically for family caregivers and youth. In Family Voice in Action: Navigating Meetings that Shape Your Future, we’ll explore how your voice and strengths can shape more meaningful and effective planning.
Foundations of Family Driven Teaming Approaches
February 18, 2026 – 12:00 to 1:30 p.m.
This webinar will explore how effective teaming within child- and family-serving systems is grounded in the principles of family voice and choice, collaboration, and others. Participants will learn how teaming approaches honor the family’s perspective, build on strengths, and promote persistence through challenges. The session will highlight how teams work in partnership with families, natural supports, and system partners to develop integrated plans that prioritize needs and foster self-efficacy.
Understanding the Needs of Youth through a Family Systems Lens
Coming this spring!
Attendees will gain new insight into children’s behaviors and needs by viewing them within the context of their family system. This webinar introduces a holistic, relational approach that honors family dynamics, culture, and intergenerational strengths, deepening the skills of the behavioral health workforce for more effective care.
Creating Change Using Meaningful Family Strengths
Presented September 17, 2025 – Now available as a half-day training
Being strengths-based isn’t just a best practice—it’s a core principle of effective youth and family engagement. But while the concept is widely embraced, few professionals receive training on how to truly uncover, amplify, and apply meaningful strengths in their work. Join us for a webinar that will introduce you to the skills
needed to notice, evoke, and build on the strengths of youth, families, professional helpers, and systems. You’ll learn how to shift from problem-focused to possibility-driven planning—creating more sustainable, empowering outcomes.
Family Driven Crisis Planning
Presented October 15, 2025 – Now available as a half-day training
Are you ready to transform the way you support youth and families during times of crisis? Join us for an insightful webinar on Family Driven Crisis Planning, designed specifically for the behavioral health workforce. This session will introduce practical tools and essential skills used in family teaming approaches to help prevent and respond to crises more effectively – reducing the need for out-of-home placements.