Facilitator and Staff Training information

Training for Connect Group Facilitators

For those who would like to provide a Connect Group in their community there is a six-half-day or three-full-day workshop available. The first (half) day is open to community professionals and stakeholders, including clinicians, teachers, law enforcement, etc., and the remaining days are for Connect Facilitator trainees only, focusing on learning and practicing content and procedures to operate a Connect Group.

Following training, a supervision and certification process takes place during facilitators’ first Connect Group. Supervision is provided by a certified Connect Supervisor, who reviews video recordings for all session and provides weekly one-hour teleconference or in-person supervision. Trainees are also required to review their video-recorded sessions weekly in preparation for supervision and to complete weekly adherence ratings and reflection forms. Connect Facilitators are typically certified following supervision of one full Connect Group, however additional supervision may be required. Re-certification with limited video-recording takes place after two years and/or four complete Groups have been run.

For more information on training for Practitioners across Canada, please visit our Connect Website page.

Staff Training

The Connect for Staff program focuses on the building blocks of attachment security that specifically relates to attachment, trauma, and professional care of children and adolescents. The program is beneficial for all care providers working with youth who would like to learn how to apply the principles of the Connect Program in their work. Care providers acquire knowledge about how attachment needs are expressed differently across development and why attachment security is important to healthy child and teen development.

For more information on Training for Care Providers please email: ConnectPoject@sfu.ca