Out-of-School-Time

Ramapo Out-of-School-Time Training helps program managers ensure that their youth programs are safe, supportive communities that are inclusive of youth with a wide range of needs and abilities.

Our Programs

Ramapo Training helps program managers ensure that their youth programs are safe, supportive communities that are inclusive of youth with a wide range of needs and abilities. Through workshops and consultation, Ramapo helps program staff grow into skilled youth-service professionals who understand youth development, model positive behavior, and know how to develop and maintain constructive relationships with the children they serve.

Ramapo Training offers a number of half- or full-day workshops on core competencies needed to work with children effectively:

• Managing Difficult Behavior
• Increasing Participation and Building Community
• Structuring Programs to Meet Students’ Identified Needs
• Strategies for Avoiding and De-Escalating Conflict Situations
• The Behavior Management Specialist Series

Ramapo also offers workshops that help programs serve children with special needs:

• Managing the Behavior of Children with Special Needs
• Structuring Programs that Include Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Ramapo offers workshops that help supervisors lead more effectively:

• “Here and Now” Supervisory Skills for Inclusive Youth Programming

In addition to workshops, Ramapo encourages youth workers who have taken training courses to receive ongoing support through program observation and coaching:

• Program Observation and Feedback
• Coaching for Youth Service Directors

Managing Difficult Behavior—Our core introductory workshop teaches youth workers practical techniques for therapeutically managing children’s disruptive behaviors. This program teaches participants to change behavior by leading positively, building relationships, teaching strategically, structuring situations, and intervening actively when required.

Increasing Participation and Building Community—This workshop focuses on strategies for engaging youth based on their unique needs and perspectives. Workshop participants learn strategies for encouraging youth voice, providing authentic choices, clarifying goals together, and actively reflecting.

Structuring Programs to Meet Students’ Identified Needs—Participants learn to anticipate problems, recognize small occurrences that can trigger bigger issues, and head off more serious difficulties.

Strategies for Avoiding and De-Escalating Conflict Situations—This workshop focuses on identifying power struggles and recognizing triggers that may cause a situation to escalate.

The Behavior Management Specialist Series—Over nine hours of workshops, this systematic and inclusive approach to behavior management puts tools, strategies, and procedures in the hands of staff members to facilitate a team approach to managing challenging behaviors. Participants also receive follow-up technical assistance.

Managing the Behavior of Children with Special Needs—This workshop provides youth workers with practical skills and strategies for handling children’s challenging behaviors and building a safe and structured program environment adapted to meet students’ identified special needs.

Structuring Programs that Include Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders—Participants learn how best to prepare for the growing number of children diagnosed each year with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). This workshop provides tools for successfully structuring programs that acknowledge special interests, establish routines, reinforce self-control, and address sensory sensitivity to ensure that children with ASD can be included successfully.

“Here and Now” Supervisory Skills for Inclusive Youth Programming—In this workshop series program directors and managers learn critical supervisory skills and share, reflect, and problem-solve with peers.

Program Observation and Feedback—Ramapo coaches follow up their programming by providing youth workers with respectful and appropriate feedback.

Coaching for Youth Service Directors—Coaching provides supervisors with a toolbox of management resources and practical solutions. Our coaching model gives directors practical strategies to implement change, effectively supervise underperforming staff, structure disorganized programs, and manage difficult behavior in children.

Our Partners

Partner Agencies
Below is a sampling of Ramapo Training partner agencies. For a full list, please download the PDF here.