Carry-Out

Live Oak's "Carry-Out" training program provides opportunities for individuals or groups from other agencies or private practice settings to consult with a Live Oak trainer to develop a training topic of their choice. The purpose of the "Carry-Out" program is to enhance training/workshop planning, delivery, and evaluation skills for professionals who wish to facilitate training at their own agencies or as an independent trainer. Topics and areas that may be addressed in the Carry-Out program include, but are not limited to:

• Topic selection
• Conducting a review of research/incorporating current research into a workshop
• Designing experiential and learning activities
• Developing workshop objectives
• Understanding adult learners
• Using humor constructively
• Dealing with challenging participants
• Evaluating workshop effectiveness
• Videotaping/rehearsing workshops
• On-site observation and feedback
• Developing cohesive/relevant participant materials and handouts

Delivery

The purpose of the "Delivery" training program is for Live Oak trainers and consultants to "deliver" specific workshops and/or training topics to other sites and locations. In this program, individuals or agencies may choose from existing workshops provided by Live Oak trainers, or new workshops may be requested that are specific to the unique needs of an individual, group, or agency. Live Oak trainers work collaboratively with individuals or agency representatives to ensure the workshop is "delivered" in a manner that is appropriate for and unique to an agency's needs. Possible topics that may be addressed in the Delivery program include, but are not limited to:

• Beyond Consequences: Behavior Management for Challenging Children and Adolescents
• Teen Relationship Violence
• Trauma and the Pregnant/Parenting Teen
• Abusive Family Systems: Risk and Resiliencies
• Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents
• Culturally Sensitive Practice with Youth and Families
• Enhancing Resiliency with Vulnerable Youth
• Suicide Risk and Assessment with LGBT Youth
• Understanding Youth Disruptive Behaviors
• Creative Assessment Strategies with Vulnerable Youth
• When Talking Isn't Enough: Creative, Expressive, and Activity-Based Interventions
• Personality Disorders in Children and Adolescents
• Creative Interventions for Youth and Families
• Working with Youth Exposed to Violence, Trauma, and Loss
• Establishing and Maintaining Professional Boundaries
• Angry Youth and Anger Management
• Affirmative Practice with LGBT Youth and Their Families
• Trauma Exposed Youth: Trauma Exposed Staff (Compassion Fatigue)
• Putting the "Family" Back into Family Therapy
• Conflict and Conflict Resolution
• Structuring the Supervisory Relationship
• Groups and Group Therapy with Vulnerable Youth
• Ethical Practice with Vulnerable Youth
• Therapeutic Activities in Residential Treatment
• Communicating with Vulnerable Youth
• When Growing Up Hurts: Child and Adolescent Development
• Poetry Therapy with Adolescents
• Mental Health Issues with Children and Adolescents
• When Holidays Aren't Happy
• Nontraditional Approaches to Denial and Resistance
• On Being an Ethical Rebel: Challenging the "Usual" in Ethics and Boundaries in Clinical Practice
• ADHD & PTSD: A Case of Mistaken Identity
• Towards Cultural Competence
• I'm Still Here: Biopsychosocial Aspects of Long-Term Survivors of HIV
• Living, Loving, and Conducting Psychotherapy in Your Own Community: Creative and Practical Strategies for Managing Boundary Crossings
• Contemporary Issues in Client Centered Therapy
• Addressing Cultural Diversity Within the Therapeutic Relationship
• Getting "Unstuck" From "Sticky" Behaviors: Understanding and Negotiating the Effects of Violence on Students
• Vicarious Traumatization & Compassion Fatigue
• Differentiating Gender and Sexual Orientation in Children
• Beyond Theory: Enhancing the Therapeutic Relationship
• When Sexual Orientations of Client and Therapist Differ