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TrustEd offers free training for educators, school staff, community members, parents, and caregivers focused on creating trusting relationships with young people for the purpose of building resilience and preventing the use of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) like vapes.
Trainings are available in English and Spanish virtually via Zoom, on-demand through our school portal, and in-person for groups of 30 or more in Colorado. Please note that during the pilot phase of the TrustEd program, training opportunities are being prioritized for Colorado residents.

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Training for School Staff and Community Members: Building Trusted Relationships with Young People

This free interactive training that equips adults with youth-informed strategies to strengthen relationships that support mental health and reduce risky behaviors like vaping. Grounded in adolescent development research and real insights from young people, the training explores 10 practical principles of becoming a trusted adult. Through engaging scenarios and reflection, participants learn how to build trust, foster relational safety, and empower youth with authenticity and care.

Audience
Adults who work with young people ages 11-24: teachers, school staff and administrators; youth-serving professionals such as public health workers, social workers and case managers, nurses, coaches, youth development staff, faith leaders, and others

Duration: 2 hours

Learning Objectives

  1. Explain the connection between youth vaping, mental health, and trusted adult relationships.
  2. Identify strategies for building trusted adult relationships with youth.
  3. Apply trusted adult principles using real-world scenarios.

Register for Training
Virtual trainings are offered for free via Zoom in English and in Spanish.

To register for an upcoming session, click the links below:

On-Demand Training

Our training is available on-demand in English and Spanish through the Action for Healthy Kids Impact Portal.
Once you log in, navigate to Learning Library > On-Demand. Then, select the training titled Building Trusted Relationships with Young People to get started.

Self-Register for On-Demand

For more information
To learn more about the TrustEd training, or to inquire about scheduling an in-person training for your community, please email mentalhealth@actionforhealthykids.org or fill out this brief interest form.

Train the Trainer

This free, interactive Train-the-Trainer session prepares participants to confidently deliver the Building Trusted Relationships training in their own communities. Participants will learn to facilitate the 2-hour training with fidelity to core messages while adapting examples, discussions, and activities to their unique community context. Through engaging examples, guided practice, and feedback, trainees gain the skills to model the Trusted Adult Principles, engage adult learners, and support participants in strengthening trusted relationships with young people to promote mental health and reduce risky behaviors like vaping.  

Participants are eligible for a $500 minigrant upon completion of the post-training survey in order to support the facilitation of the Building Trusted Relationships training in their communities.

Audience
This Train-the-Trainer session is designed for professionals who provide training to educators, school staff, youth-serving professionals, and parents/caregivers of young people age 11-24. 

Duration: 2 hours

Learning Objectives

  1. Explain and teach the connection between youth vaping, mental health, and trusted adult relationships.  
  2. Coach others to be able to identify and practice strategies for building trusted adult relationships with youth in their communities.  
  3. Adapt and deliver the Building Trusted Relationships training with fidelity to core messages while tailoring examples and discussions to the community context. 

Register for Training
Virtual trainings are offered for free via Zoom in English. To register for an upcoming session, click the links below:

For more information
To learn more about the TrustEd training, or to inquire about scheduling an in-person training for your community, please email mentalhealth@actionforhealthykids.org 

 

What Young People Told Us

Trust is something that you build off of each other.
– TrustEd Focus Group Participant

Trust comes with not only someone that you can share things with, but someone who shares their things back.
– TrustEd Focus Group Participant

I think part of the biggest thing, why we don’t have a lot of trustable adults is it’s almost all scripted. Everything they say outside of their role is, ‘What’d you do over the weekend? How are you feeling today?’ Just being able to have those unscripted conversations and interactions are what really build trustable adults.
– TrustEd Focus Group Participant

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