Skills to Pay the Bills

Our aim is to create a supportive community and to help equip youth with the skills they need to help each other.

Youth Net offers:
- Facilitator training for Focus Groups and Pens & Paints, including:

• Intro to YN
• Roles and Responsibilities
• Group Facilitation
• Crisis/Suicide Protocol
• Duty to Report Abuse
• Mentoring Process

- Facilitator Support meetings
- Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (A.S.I.S.T)
- Subject Matter of Workshops and Pens & Paints (mental illnesses)
- Other training as may be scheduled through CMHA/Peel: Non-
  Violent Crisis Intervention, CPR.
- Youth Conferences

The last two opportunities are open to YN Staff, YN facilitators, and volunteers as budget permits.

Youth have the opportunity to learn new skills through:

• Student Placement Experiences
• Volunteering

YN offers skill enhancement through its staff positions:

• Coordinator
• Staff Facilitator
• Casual Facilitators

How ready are you to work or volunteer with Youth Net? Test your knowledge of Mental Illness! No matter what the answers, we’ve got the services and training to increase your awareness and knowledge.

Youth and Psychosis

Given how early serious mental illness can emerge, Youth Net wants to use some space for you to learn about psychosis and intervening early. In Ontario, mental health professionals and the government are committed to diagnosing a mental illness and helping as early as possible. Doing so means that recovery is more likely with young adults able to pursue the life they hoped for when they were planning to go to college.

Click here for information about Psychosis.
Click here for information about Early Intervention.