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Connecting with Hard to Engage Teenagers
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September 12, 2025 | 9:00am – 12:00pm CST | 3 CEHs | $45 | Live Webinar
Description: Let’s be honest, teenagers can be intimidating! Whether you are new to working with adolescents or looking to refine your skills, this workshop aims to provide tools to break barriers and build meaningful, therapeutic relationships with hard-to-reach teens using creativity, patience, and authenticity. Let’s explore how brain development and social influences contribute to disengagement and distrust in adolescents and how to create an environment where teenagers feel valued and motivated. Whether you are someone who works with a teenager in a professional capacity or are a parent or caregiver trying to navigate adolescent years, this training will benefit you!
This webinar is expected to be approved for 1 hour of clinical content and .5 hours of cultural competency content
Learning Objectives:
- Explore how brain development and cultural/social influences contribute to disengagement and distrust in adolescents.
- Discover different ways to create an environment where teenagers feel valued and motivated.
- Discover tools to break barriers and build meaningful, therapeutic relationships with hard-to-reach teens using creativity, patience, and authenticity.
Presenter: Brianna Coleman, MSW, LICSW – Clinical Program Therapist, LynLake Center for Wellbeing & MN Department of Corrections
About the Presenter
Brianna received her MSW from the University of Minnesota in 2018 and holds a LICSW. Brianna works as a clinical program therapist with the MN Department of Corrections at Oak Park Heights prison’s Mental Health Unit and as a therapist with LynLake Centers for Wellbeing. She has worked in the mental health field for 10+ years and has grown passionate about working with children, adolescents, and adults who hold marginalized identities. Brianna enjoys presenting educational trainings to a variety of different agencies and organizations on topics including attachment and development, severe and persistent mental illness, LGBTQ+ topics and trauma-informed care
