Strategies
of Outreach in Youth Services
The Strategies of Outreach in Youth Services is a highly interactive group of intermediate level topics designed to enhance your work! Each 2-hour training module is designed to refine your community-based youth work practice and build skills to support your career sustainability. These trainings focus on how we practice high quality work with youth and center strategies unique to outreach and community-based work. Each module will include reflection on your unique role, StreetWorks standards of practice, and scenario-based discussion of common challenges. You will walk away with practical ways to apply key strategies and new or updated tools for your career.
Expect modules such as:
- Personal Safety (Available now)
- Preparing for a Shift (Available now)
- Modules in Development:
- Wellbeing & Sustainability in the Ecosystem (Debriefing Shifts + Aftercare)
- Boundaries Deep Dive
- Approaches With Youth
- Harm Reduction, Stigma, & Outreach
Come to one or come to all modules. No matter how many you attend, get ready to be in deep conversation and learning from your peers as you apply the training information to your unique role in the youth-work ecosystem.
Intermediate topics assumes a foundational understanding of outreach and working with youth and focuses on more advanced practices, skills, or concepts. Participants will get the most from this Training Series by having:
- A solid understanding of where you consistently do your work in the community and how your shifts are usually structured
- Have enough experience in outreach or community-based settings to be able to describe and reflect on a variety of experiences, situations, and environments over time
- Be familiar enough with the youth, community partners, and systems within their unique ecosystem to be able to accurately assess needs, gaps, and strengths
Personal Safety
October 14, 2026 – StreetWorks Strategies of Outreach in Youth Services: Personal Safety
Personal Safety is a 2-hour training focusing on practical skills youth workers can use to increase their safety skills in outreach and community-based work. This is a highly interactive and applied session. This means you should be ready to explore your specific safety needs, discuss different strategies, and apply new tools to your work.
By attending this session, you can expect to (1) gain tools to increase conversations about safety in your community, (2) make a preparation plan unique to you and the community you serve, and (3) practice discussing safety-related boundaries and needs with others to build your skills in advocating for your own safety.
Training Goals
By the end of the training, our goal is that you will be able to say:
Personal Safety is a module of StreetWorks Strategies of Outreach in Youth Services.
Participants will get the most from this training by having:
- An understanding of where you will consistently do your work in the community and how your shifts are usually structured
- An open-mind and willingness to explore what factors impact your sense of safety
- What specific policies and practices your agency uses to support safety when you are on shift
Preparing for a Shift
October 20, 2026 – StreetWorks Strategies of Outreach in Youth Services: Preparing for a Shift
Preparing for a Shift is a 2-hour training that will focus on practical skills that support youth
workers to appropriately prepare for a shift based on their own needs, their setting, and the
support available in their ecosystem. This is primarily a practice session, and participants should
be ready to explore their own preparation process and apply new strategies to their work.
By attending this session, you can expect to (1) review the basics of shift preparation; (2)
customize a preparation plan that addresses personal, role, and community needs; and (3)
practice communicating about your needs with others.
Training Goals
By the end of the training, our goal is that you will be able to say:
Preparing for a Shift is a module of StreetWorks Strategies of Outreach in Youth Services.
Participants will get the most from this training by having:
- An understanding of where you will consistently do your work in the community and how your shifts are usually structured
- An open-mind and willingness to explore what factors impact your sense of safety
- What specific policies and practices your agency uses to support safety when you are on shift
Training Details (all Modules)
- Registration is required for each participant. No refunds or transfers.
- Cost: $100
- Attendance: Participants must attend the training date series listed in their registration.
- Virtual Access: Participants must be able to access Zoom on a tablet orlaptop/desktop computer with a working camera; participants are required to have their videos on during training. Phones are not recommended.
- Materials: All resources and materials will be available in PDF versions
- Scholarships are available. FAQ’s below.
- CEUs: All trainings are pre-approved for CEUs by the MN Board of Social Work. CEU hours will be reflected on certificates of completion.
Registration
Upcoming trainings (all times are CDT):
October 14, 2026 – StreetWorks Strategies of Outreach in Youth Services: Personal Safety
October 20, 2026 – StreetWorks Strategies of Outreach in Youth Services: Preparing for a Shift
Email streetworkstraining@lssmn.org to get put on the mailing list for invites and updates when new trainings go up!