SERVICES

The BBYO Center for Adolescent Wellness (BBYO-CAW) ensures that youth-serving organizations are places where all youth thrive. BBYO-CAW has the tools, resources, and training to make this possible with the below services. To request a service, package, or quote, please contact Drew Fidler, Senior Director of BBYO-CAW.

Who are our services and programs for?

  • Camps

  • Schools

  • After-School Programs

  • Youth Movements

  • Synagogues

  • Other Youth-Serving Organizations

Wellness Assessment

  • Utilize our custom Wellness Assessment Tool to analyze mental, emotional, and social health policies and procedures

  • Evaluate how current policies, procedures, and training align to create and ensure safe environments

  • Provide a written report on areas of strength and opportunities for improvement

  • Present findings to agency leadership and board at the request of the organization

Policy Development

  • Revise current and/or create new policies and procedures in accordance with local and national laws and best practices to support the mental, emotional, and social health needs of children and staff

  • Policies and procedures customized to fit the YSO, its culture, and needs

Training

  • Available for youth serving professionals, parents and community members, and children and teens

  • Developed and customized to reflect organizational policies and procedures, organizational culture, and local laws

  • Customized trainings upon request

  • Available trainings include:

  • Mandated Reporter Training

    • Local mandated reporting laws

    • Definitions of child abuse (including physical, sexual, emotional abuse, neglect, and human trafficking)

    • Signs and symptoms of abuse

    • Working with youth safely

  • Recognizing and Responding to Red Flags

    • Typical adolescent development

    • Mental health diagnoses in childhood and adolescence

    • Warning signs of mental health challenges

    • Strategies for recognition and intervention

  • Building Healthy Boundaries

    • Role of staff in the lives of youth

    • Relationship building between youth and adults

    • Building and maintaining appropriate, observable, interruptible boundaries with youth

    • Recognizing red flag behavior

    • Empowering teens and staff to utilize safe practices

  • Building Safe Environments

    • Role of youth serving organizations with regards to youth mental, emotional, social health

    • Best practices to ensure the mental, emotional, and social health of youth

    • Implementing best practices at your YSO

    • Evaluating your physical site to ensure safe practices

  • Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA)

    • How to identify, understand and respond to signs of mental illnesses and substance use disorders

    • Common mental health challenges for youth, typical adolescent development, and teaches a 5-step action plan for how to help young people in both crisis and non-crisis situations

    • 6.5-hour course that can be taught in-person or virtually

  • Teen Mental Health First Aid (tMHFA)

    • Teaches teens how to identify, understand and respond to signs of mental health and substance use challenges in their peers

    • Common mental health challenges for youth, and teaches a 5-step action plan for how to help their peers in both crisis and non-crisis situations

    • Three-part course of 90 minutes each or six parts of 45 minutes each

  • Managing Empathic Strain, Secondary Traumatic Stress, and Burnout

    • Provides definitions for empathic strain, secondary traumatic stress, and burnout

    • Warning signs and symptoms of these challenges

    • How to address these challenges

    • Tools for building boundaries and rebounding from strain

  • Supporting Teen Behavior and Mindful Masculinity

    • Dynamics and development of adolescent males

    • Relationship building with male-identifying youth and staff

    • Building a healthy community culture

    • Getting the best out of male-identifying youth and staff

Consulting Services

BBYO-CAW staff regularly consult on issues and crises within organizations as they arise. YSOs may contact the Center for a free 30-minute assessment and then purchase hours based on the issue at hand.