YFTI Webinar Archive
Below is a list of webinars, grouped by timeframe, that were developed by YFTI to provide the workforce across Pennsylvania a toolkit for cross-system collaboration that enhances their skills, and builds confidence and competence in any role they serve in their local community.
Recordings of completed sessions will be added to this page as they become available.
Summer 2026
Presented August 26, 2026
Successful transition doesn’t begin when services are ending, it begins the moment we start working alongside youth and families. This webinar will explore how Family Driven Teaming builds self-efficacy from day one by helping youth and families identify their strengths, develop transferable skills, strengthen natural supports, and take increasing ownership of their goals and decision-making. Participants will learn practical strategies for fostering confidence, self-advocacy, and independence throughout the helping process so that transition becomes a celebration of readiness rather than an ending. Join us as we discuss how intentional skill-building, family leadership, and community connections create the foundation for sustainable success long after formal services have ended.
Do For, Do With, And Cheer On In Family Driven Teaming
Presented July 15, 2026
This webinar explores how the “Do For, Do With, Cheer On” approach is used in Family Driven Teaming to build skills, confidence, and lasting outcomes for youth, families, and the workforce. Rooted in family voice and choice, natural supports, and shared responsibility, this session will walk through how professionals intentionally shift their role over time from providing more direct support, to partnering alongside families, to encouraging independence and long-term success. Participants will gain a clear understanding of how this progression shows up in everyday practice, as well as in coaching and supervision, creating alignment across roles and supporting a natural transition from dependence to independence.
Essential Skills to Create Effective Helping Partnerships
Presented June 17, 2026
This webinar introduces core helping skills and facilitative interpersonal skills (FIS) essential for professionals working across therapeutic and helping settings. Participants will explore practical, real‑world examples of how these skills support engagement, collaboration, and positive change. The webinar also highlights how these approaches can be flexibly applied to meet the needs of individuals from diverse backgrounds and with a wide range of strengths and challenges.
Building Self-Efficacy: Working Toward Transition from Day One
Presented August 26, 2026
Successful transition doesn’t begin when services are ending, it begins the moment we start working alongside youth and families. This webinar will explore how Family Driven Teaming builds self-efficacy from day one by helping youth and families identify their strengths, develop transferable skills, strengthen natural supports, and take increasing ownership of their goals and decision-making. Participants will learn practical strategies for fostering confidence, self-advocacy, and independence throughout the helping process so that transition becomes a celebration of readiness rather than an ending. Join us as we discuss how intentional skill-building, family leadership, and community connections create the foundation for sustainable success long after formal services have ended.
Do For, Do With, And Cheer On In Family Driven Teaming
Presented July 15, 2026
This webinar explores how the “Do For, Do With, Cheer On” approach is used in Family Driven Teaming to build skills, confidence, and lasting outcomes for youth, families, and the workforce. Rooted in family voice and choice, natural supports, and shared responsibility, this session will walk through how professionals intentionally shift their role over time from providing more direct support, to partnering alongside families, to encouraging independence and long-term success. Participants will gain a clear understanding of how this progression shows up in everyday practice, as well as in coaching and supervision, creating alignment across roles and supporting a natural transition from dependence to independence.
Essential Skills to Create Effective Helping Partnerships
Presented June 17, 2026
This webinar introduces core helping skills and facilitative interpersonal skills (FIS) essential for professionals working across therapeutic and helping settings. Participants will explore practical, real‑world examples of how these skills support engagement, collaboration, and positive change. The webinar also highlights how these approaches can be flexibly applied to meet the needs of individuals from diverse backgrounds and with a wide range of strengths and challenges.
Building Self-Efficacy: Working Toward Transition from Day One
Presented August 26, 2026
Successful transition doesn’t begin when services are ending, it begins the moment we start working alongside youth and families. This webinar will explore how Family Driven Teaming builds self-efficacy from day one by helping youth and families identify their strengths, develop transferable skills, strengthen natural supports, and take increasing ownership of their goals and decision-making. Participants will learn practical strategies for fostering confidence, self-advocacy, and independence throughout the helping process so that transition becomes a celebration of readiness rather than an ending. Join us as we discuss how intentional skill-building, family leadership, and community connections create the foundation for sustainable success long after formal services have ended.
Do For, Do With, And Cheer On In Family Driven Teaming
Presented July 15, 2026
This webinar explores how the “Do For, Do With, Cheer On” approach is used in Family Driven Teaming to build skills, confidence, and lasting outcomes for youth, families, and the workforce. Rooted in family voice and choice, natural supports, and shared responsibility, this session will walk through how professionals intentionally shift their role over time from providing more direct support, to partnering alongside families, to encouraging independence and long-term success. Participants will gain a clear understanding of how this progression shows up in everyday practice, as well as in coaching and supervision, creating alignment across roles and supporting a natural transition from dependence to independence.
Essential Skills to Create Effective Helping Partnerships
Presented June 17, 2026
This webinar introduces core helping skills and facilitative interpersonal skills (FIS) essential for professionals working across therapeutic and helping settings. Participants will explore practical, real‑world examples of how these skills support engagement, collaboration, and positive change. The webinar also highlights how these approaches can be flexibly applied to meet the needs of individuals from diverse backgrounds and with a wide range of strengths and challenges.
Building Self-Efficacy: Working Toward Transition from Day One
Presented August 26, 2026
Successful transition doesn’t begin when services are ending, it begins the moment we start working alongside youth and families. This webinar will explore how Family Driven Teaming builds self-efficacy from day one by helping youth and families identify their strengths, develop transferable skills, strengthen natural supports, and take increasing ownership of their goals and decision-making. Participants will learn practical strategies for fostering confidence, self-advocacy, and independence throughout the helping process so that transition becomes a celebration of readiness rather than an ending. Join us as we discuss how intentional skill-building, family leadership, and community connections create the foundation for sustainable success long after formal services have ended.
Do For, Do With, And Cheer On In Family Driven Teaming
Presented July 15, 2026
This webinar explores how the “Do For, Do With, Cheer On” approach is used in Family Driven Teaming to build skills, confidence, and lasting outcomes for youth, families, and the workforce. Rooted in family voice and choice, natural supports, and shared responsibility, this session will walk through how professionals intentionally shift their role over time from providing more direct support, to partnering alongside families, to encouraging independence and long-term success. Participants will gain a clear understanding of how this progression shows up in everyday practice, as well as in coaching and supervision, creating alignment across roles and supporting a natural transition from dependence to independence.
Essential Skills to Create Effective Helping Partnerships
Presented June 17, 2026
This webinar introduces core helping skills and facilitative interpersonal skills (FIS) essential for professionals working across therapeutic and helping settings. Participants will explore practical, real‑world examples of how these skills support engagement, collaboration, and positive change. The webinar also highlights how these approaches can be flexibly applied to meet the needs of individuals from diverse backgrounds and with a wide range of strengths and challenges.
Building Self-Efficacy: Working Toward Transition from Day One
Presented August 26, 2026
Successful transition doesn’t begin when services are ending, it begins the moment we start working alongside youth and families. This webinar will explore how Family Driven Teaming builds self-efficacy from day one by helping youth and families identify their strengths, develop transferable skills, strengthen natural supports, and take increasing ownership of their goals and decision-making. Participants will learn practical strategies for fostering confidence, self-advocacy, and independence throughout the helping process so that transition becomes a celebration of readiness rather than an ending. Join us as we discuss how intentional skill-building, family leadership, and community connections create the foundation for sustainable success long after formal services have ended.
Do For, Do With, And Cheer On In Family Driven Teaming
Presented July 15, 2026
This webinar explores how the “Do For, Do With, Cheer On” approach is used in Family Driven Teaming to build skills, confidence, and lasting outcomes for youth, families, and the workforce. Rooted in family voice and choice, natural supports, and shared responsibility, this session will walk through how professionals intentionally shift their role over time from providing more direct support, to partnering alongside families, to encouraging independence and long-term success. Participants will gain a clear understanding of how this progression shows up in everyday practice, as well as in coaching and supervision, creating alignment across roles and supporting a natural transition from dependence to independence.
Essential Skills to Create Effective Helping Partnerships
Presented June 17, 2026
This webinar introduces core helping skills and facilitative interpersonal skills (FIS) essential for professionals working across therapeutic and helping settings. Participants will explore practical, real‑world examples of how these skills support engagement, collaboration, and positive change. The webinar also highlights how these approaches can be flexibly applied to meet the needs of individuals from diverse backgrounds and with a wide range of strengths and challenges.
Spring 2026
Presented May 20, 2026
Managing team dynamics means noticing shifts in participation, emotion, and momentum, and responding intentionally, so the meeting stays inclusive, focused, and productive. Fluid facilitation is the ability to adapt in real time by choosing the right facilitation skill for what’s happening in the room, rather than rigidly following a plan. Together, these practices help facilitators protect family voice, reduce tension, navigate conflict, and guide groups toward shared understanding, integrated solutions, and shared ownership—even when meetings get hard.
From Barriers to Bridges: System Navigation in Family Driven Teaming
Presented April 15, 2026
This webinar explores what system navigation is, and is not, within a Family Driven Teaming model. We will explore practices that support working collaboratively with youth, families, and teams to navigate complex child‑ and family‑serving systems. Participants will also have the opportunity to reflect on common system navigation challenges, hear practical insights from Family Navigators in the field, and learn how effective system navigation helps prevent plans from stalling while ensuring families are active decision‑makers throughout the teaming process.
Understanding the Needs of Youth through a Family Systems Lens
Presented March 11, 2026
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.
Winter 2025/2026
Foundations of Family Driven Teaming Approaches
Presented February 18, 2026
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.
Family Voice in Action: Navigating Meetings that Shape Your Future
Presented January 21, 2026
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.
Creating Positive Workplace Cultures for Family Peers
Presented December 17, 2025
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.
Fall 2025
Family Driven Action Planning
Presented November 19, 2025
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.
Family Driven Crisis Planning
Presented October 15, 2025
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.
Creating Change Using Meaningful Family Strengths
Presented September 17, 2025
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.
For questions or inquiries about YFTI’s available trainings or webinars, please contact us.