NorthernRecharge2025

This engaging keynote addresses the critical importance of mental health in schools, providing a dynamic and creative approach to fostering emotional well-being among students, educators, and communities. Through a blend of powerful storytelling, short edutainment films, and interactive conversations, participants will explore essential mental health topics such as depression, anxiety, suicide awareness, body image struggles, and overcoming PTSD. The session focuses on breaking the silence surrounding mental health by dismantling stigma and empowering individuals to prioritize psychological safety in school environments. Participants will gain practical tools for creating open, supportive cultures, along with strategies for effective communication, building resilience, and encouraging peer and staff engagement.

Empowering all adults who work with youth know how to Recognize, Resist, and Report Child Abuse. We will learn the signs that a child might be experiencing abuse, and learn how to make report, as well as going over Utah's Mandated Reporting Law. This training will certify each attendee in Child Abuse Prevention. Help keep Utah's Kids Safe!

Join us in an interactive workshop for professionals who support adolescents ages 10-19 to learn the fundamentals of Social & Emotional Learning (SEL) and the key benefits for both individuals and communities. Participants will be familiarized with and receive a copy of "Social and Emotional Learning in Practice: A Toolkit of Practical Strategies and Resources” by the University of Minnesota. We will explore how to use data to make improvements, and learn about accommodations when implementing SEL to better meet the needs of all adolescents, particularly adolescents with disabilities or IEPs.

Join us to gain insights into the workings of your brain and the sensations in your body during times of stress. Learn strategies that will empower you to make meaningful shifts towards a more balanced life. Together, we will explore the calm of mindfulness, the resilience of thought control, the healing power of laughter, and the essential nature of caring connections. Unleash the potential of self-care as a superpower, creating a cycle of well-being that radiates positively to those around you. Through the act of caring for others, you strengthen your own well-being.

This session is for anyone who has to do any sort of academic planning and struggles to make it engaging and to keep kids interested. We will use the concepts of TBRI (an attachment-based approach to behaviors derived from a trauma history) to create connection but create that connection using curriculum and academic content. This will start to give you the ideas and skills needed to nurture academic success while creating connection which will decrease the negative behaviors. You will leave this session with ideas you can immediately return to your program and use.

Did you know that when the well-known would-be substance-use prevention specialist William Shakespeare wrote that "the web of our life is a mingled yarn" he was actually writing about the Social Development Strategy? (It's absolutely true!) Come find out how. During this workshop, we will take a closer look at the Social Development Strategy as an essential youth protective framework and consider the five basic elements that together provide strong social development for young people: bonding, opportunities, skills, clear and healthy standards, and recognition. You will come to understand more clearly what young people need most to build good and healthy lives, and together we will learn how to use this strategy in our various communities to nurture more resilient humans and create stronger buffers around them. (And you might even learn a little more Shakespeare along the way!)