The Democratic Youth Engagement (DYE) Model

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(November 2022) The Democratic Youth Engagement (DYE) Model

Join in this webinar to learn about The DYE Model, created by Adam Arnold. This model encourages adults working and living with youth to go beyond the “fix the kid” approach. The model revolves around the practice of collaborating with, and honoring the agency of youth, as well as centering adults as the models for youth, and holding the relationship paramount between adult and youth.

The DYE Model is applicable where adults interact with youth:
– Youth workers
– Mental health professionals
– Chemical health professionals
– Educators
– Skills workers
– Social workers
– Adoption workers
– Camp counselors
– Parents

Adam will explain how to process the values democratically when engaging with youth, learn how to creatively collaborate with youth, and gain practical skills for modeling healthy behavior for youth.

Adam Arnold, MA, LMFT, LADC is a licensed psychotherapist with Enliven Psychotherapy in Saint Paul, MN. He is the developer of The Democratic Youth Engagement (DYE) Model, the values and style through which he employs his clinical work. Adam has experience developing relationships with adolescents and children of varying cultures, as well as adolescents and children of varying abilities. He has worked professionally in school settings, summer camps, after school programs, arts organizations, athletic settings, day treatment centers, correctional facilities, and residential treatment centers. For over ten years Adam combined his passions for healing and the arts, serving as Founder and Artistic Director of blank slate theatre, a personal growth-oriented theatre for adolescents in Saint Paul, Minnesota. While there, he collaborated with culturally and ability diverse adolescents to produce over two dozen theatre pieces centering on themes of mental health and social change, including the award-winning DISORDERED [thy name is teenager], and BOTTOM, a play on child sex trafficking. Adam also was proud to serve as chair of the “Safe Schools, Safe Students Conference,” which sought to address mental health issues in schools, innovate family involvement with schools, soothe peer aggression (bullying), and eliminate school shootings. Adam enjoys watching scary movies, listening to nerdy podcasts, and strengthening his broken spine.

Watch time: 75 minutes

Eligible Certificate of Completion time: 75 minutes