dle  Goals
Participants will:

• demonstrate an appreciation for the importance of common daily events.
• explain the concept and process of using everyday events for helping youth.
• develop skills in using everyday live events to facilitate change
• identify how their practice might incorporate this approach.

DLE COURSE OUTLINE

• Underlying Principles
• Foundations
• Thinking about Daily Life Events
• Meaning-Making
• Themes & Opportunities
• Beyond Problem Behaviours
• A Needs-Based Approach
• Characteristics of those who Use DLE Effectively
• The Process of Change
• Intervening into Daily Life Events.

The Therapeutic Use of Daily Life Events

The Therapeutic Use of Daily Life Events, commonly referred to as dle ™, is designed to help the direct care practitioner become more effective in daily interactions with young people and families. Through a focus on everyday events and how these events connect to the overall goals established with young people and/or families, the direct care practitioner adopts a more pro-active approach in intervention. dle offers the potential to make every moment with young people and families more meaningful.

Whether one is involved with youths and families in group care programs, schools, community settings, family homes or any other program in which the helper is involved in daily life, dle offers both skills in creating interventions and a framework for thinking about what we are doing. Too often, training for direct care helpers offers techniques but not a framework for thinking systematically about one’s actions and interactions. When we think clearly, we do better work.

The essence of effective child and youth care practice lies in the ability to use everyday life events, as they are occurring, to help facilitate change for children, youths and families. This training will define and demonstrate this skill and will provide the opportunity for participants to incorporate this approach into their own work with young people.

The essence of effective child and youth care practice lies in the ability to use everyday life events, as they are occurring, to help facilitate change for children, youths and families. This training will define and demonstrate this skill and will provide the opportunity for participants to incorporate this approach into their own work with young people.

dle is useful to child and youth care workers, educators, youth workers, foster parents, counselors, social workers, psychologists, and all professionals engaged in support, prevention and treatment with young people and families.

The Therapeutic Use of Daily Life Events is a training of TransformAction International. Developed by Thom Garfat, PhD (Canada) with John Digney, PhD (Ireland) and Leon Fulcher, PhD (New Zealand) it is based on Dr. Garfat’s award winning research into developing effective interventions. TransformAction International also offers the following trainings:

• Outcomes that Matter for Youths in Out-of-Home Care
• Positive Psychology & the Use of Humour
• DLE with Families
• Reflective Practice
• A DLE Approach to Staff Supervision

Dates: To be arranged specific to your organizations needs

For Information:

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27 Victoria St East, Suite 207, Alliston, Ontario L9R 1T9
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