After helping the parents understand why their child is out of control, the model deals with such issues as how to reduce parents’ knee-jerk reactions, how to contract for change, how to set up creative consequences, how to reintroduce nurturance once behavior comes under control, and how to look for the underlying problems, such as marital discord or substance abuse, that often block success.

You will also learn the specific consequences necessary to stop the child’s seven big guns of: truancy, running away, suicidal threats, violence, disrespect, sexual promiscuity, and drug and alcohol abuse. You’ll leave with a full tool kit for helping parents improve their parenting skills and knowing how to reach the resistant child or adolescent. This seminar material is appropriate for a clinical audience, but clinicians often bring the parents they are working with, and have reported great success.

"Dr Sells' book offers a sensible and strategic approach to resolving the family problems of difficult kids…This is a valuable book that wedges research-supported ideas into practical guidance for therapists struggling with exasperating children and their families."
-Jay Haley, Founder of Strategic Family Therapy

CONFERENCE GOAL
 To provide human service professionals, social workers, parents, educators, administrators, corrections and law enforcement with a 7-step approach to engaging the uncooperative parent and adolescent or child, end button pushing, reestablish authority through ironclad contracts, and restore lost nurturance between parent and child.  Participants will leave with the skills needed to develop action plans to improve their services to youth and their families by applying the principles and exercises in this conference. \

OBJECTIVES
1. Diagnose why children and adolescents are oppositional and how to effectively treat this population through the illustration of specific clinical markers diagrammed within the 7-Step SFI Model.
2. Learn and apply specific principles and guidelines on how to engage the uncooperative child or adolescent, plus creative consequences to stop the extreme behaviors of substance abuse, violence, suicide, disrespect, truancy, and running away.
3. Learn and apply specific principles and guidelines on how to engage the uncooperative parents, empower the single parent, and change parent-child communication and confrontational patterns, plus six strategies to restore tenderness within the family.
4. Apply the strategies of the Parent Survival Kit to show parents why their children or teens misbehave, and the 7-step process needed to reestablish their lost authority and restore lost nurturance.

CEU's
MN Board of Social Work -6.0
MN Board of Psychology -6.0
MN Marriage & Family -6.0
MN Child Protection -6.5
MN POST -6.0
MN Board of School Admin. -6.0
ND Board of Social Work -6.0
ND POST -6.0
ND Board of Psychology -6.0

Applied for 6.0 hours
If you have any questions, please call 888-945-YIPA.
Attendance certificates will be available at the conclusion of the conference.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Dr. Scott Sells is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and former tenured Professor of Social Work at Savannah State University, Savannah, GA.   Dr. Sells has conducted seminars in over 80 cities for the past four years and spoken to over 15,000 professional counselors and parents based on his first book entitled, Treating the Tough Adolescent: A Family-Based, Step-by-Step Guide published in 1998 and his second book entitled Parenting Your Out-of-Control Teenager: 7 Steps to Reestablish Authority and Reclaim Love published in 2001.

It took Dr. Sells six years of intensive research to discover what makes children and teens go beyond normal everyday rebellion and move into behaviors that are out of control. He also has discovered how to reach resistant parents and get them motivated and engage their teenager again.   Dr. Sells is the Chief Executive Officer and founder of Savannah Family Institute.   
His dream now is not to reach just the individual counselor or parent but to work collaboratively with juvenile justice and foster care systems in the US, Australia, and Europe to retool the way we serve our youth and motivate their parents. As one child stated to Dr. Sells years ago, “You can lock us up in detention or send us away to treatment centers but you still have not fixed our parents. So when we come back we return to the same home that we left and soon return to our old behaviors. This is crazy.”

The SFI Model is currently being used successfully to engage parents in thirty-four U. S. states, as well as in Germany, England, Australia and The Netherlands.

Dr. Sells is the Chief Executive Officer and founder of Savannah Family Institute and has personally treated over 900 difficult children and teenagers over the last 14 years. The Savannah Family Institute (“SFI”), vision is to help professionals and parents reduce or eliminate severe behavior problems in teenagers and children through a step-by-step roadmap and the restoration of both love and limits.
 
LOCATION AND TIME

Holiday Inn
200 West 1st Street
Duluth, MN 

November 12, 2009
7:15 a.m. - Check-in will begin
8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.- Speaker

REGISTRATION PROCEDURE AND DEADLINE
Pre-registration is required. The registration is $60 per person for YIPA members and $75 per person for non-YIPA members.  A group rate is available for 5 or more people registering together from the same organization.  Call for details.  Fee includes materials, lunch and refreshments.  Registrations are due by November 6, 2009.  Refunds, less a $25.00 processing fee, will be granted if reservations are cancelled 10 days or more prior to the event. Refund requests made after the event will not be considered. Receipts for payment can be requested at the conference registration.  Questions: Call 1-888-945-YIPA.
 
To REGISTER Go to Online Registration or Print a Registration Form. Choose "Register Now" for either option.

To JOIN YIPA, Go to Online Membership Application.

HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS AND DIRECTIONS

A block of rooms has been reserved for conference attendees at a special rate at the Holiday Inn for November 11, the evening before the conference.  For reservations, call 218-722-1202 and ask for group code YIPA.

COST

Non -YIPA Member Registration - $75
YIPA Member Registration - $60
Group Rate (5+) – Call for Details
 
AGENDA
8:00-9:00 a.m.     Step #1 Why the Out-of-Control Child Misbehaves: The Top 7 Reasons
10:00-10:15 a.m.  Beak
10:15-11:15 a.m.  The 7-Step SFI Mode: an Overview
11:15-12:00 p.m.    Step #1 - Attachment Theory: Why Parents of Conduct Disordered Kids Love..but No Longer Like Them & Video Demonstrations
12:00-1:00 p.m.      Lunch
1:00-2:00 p.m.        Step #2 - How to Write an Ironclad Contract that Actually Works
                             Step #3 - Troubeshooting: thinking To Steps Ahead of a Child
2:00-2:15 p.m.        Break
2:15-4:30 p.m.        Step #4 - Button-Pushing: Why Parents and Counselor Lose
                             Step #5 - Creative Consequences to Stop teh Teen's 7 Aces (Disrespect, Truancy, Running Away, Violence, Sexual Promiscuity, Alcohol and Drug Use, and Threats of Suicide)
                             Step #6 - Mobilizing Outside Helpers lik Friends and Neighbos
                             Step #7 - Reclaiming Lost Nurturance and Tenderness
                                
QUESTIONS? 
Call: 888-945-YIPA
Email: jstrinmoen@mnyipa.org
Youth Intervention Programs Association - Regional Office
303 15th Ave NW, Kasson, MN 55944
Fax: 507-634-6210   Phone: 888-945-YIPA

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