ENGAGE: Youth Intervention Workshops
A biblical response to reclaiming troubled teens, at-risk youth, juvenile offenders, and other kids in crisis.

ENGAGE workshops offer strategies and resources to help youth workers, parents, and others who communicate and work with youth involved in risky behavior. ENGAGE examines the world of struggling teenagers and maps out a biblical approach to helping teens find hope, purpose, and significance in the midst of crisis.

If you are interested in attending a workshop or if your church may be interested in hosting a workshop, contact us through our volunteer submission form here.

Topics vary for each workshop, but potential topics covered include:

• A biblical response to reclaiming troubled teens
• Understanding youth in crisis
• Profiles of high risk youth
• Responding to distressed youth
• Communication barriers with at-risk youth
• The needs of impulsive and aggressive young people
• Helping teens with addictions
• Coping with manipulative behavior
• Learning from youth violence and school shootings
• A teen's search for security and significance
• Motivating apathetic young people
• Understanding girls involved with risky behavior
• Mentoring strategies
• Building a community network
• Overcoming cultural barriers with kids
• Preventative Parenting: how to "juvy-proof" your kids
• Empowerment: helping teens discover a dream
• Creating healthy boundaries with struggling teens
• Ministering to adopted or abused kids
• Helping kids rebound from pain, loss, and divorce
• The power of media and its impact on youth
• Giving kids a biblical worldview to filter media
• Reclaiming youths in the juvenile justice system
• Initiating a juvenile detention center ministry
• Extending ministry to families of incarcerated teens
• Leading institution Bible studies
• Developing an aftercare approach for youth in lockup
• Planning outreach events in juvenile centers
• Fundraising for projects and programs

*Note to pastors, church leaders, and Sunday School teachers: Any of the workshop sessions above can be adapted or abreviated to fit a typical 60-90 minute church service.