Renaissance Denver Stapleton Hotel
3801 Quebec Street
Denver, CO 80207
Driving Directions
Registration Fee
$379 per person ($349 per person when registering two or more from same agency)
Lodging Rate:
$159/night (plus local taxes) when using lodging block for National Symposium on Juvenile Services
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Hotel Reservations
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Special Event ~ Youth Thrive Training Course
Concurrent to regular Symposium workshops, NPJS is pleased to offer a special 3-day learning opportunity,
Youth Thrive™ Intensive Training: New Tools to Create Connection and Well-being for Our Most Vulnerable Youth
Youth Thrive blends the most current neuroscience and trauma research with youth resiliency and helps participants use that knowledge to connect with young people. Health Care Education and Training, Inc. has adapted the acclaimed Youth Thrive Intensive Training to incorporate reproductive and sexual health topics in ways that promote healing and build cognitive pathways associated with social-emotional well-being.
Participants will receive a workbook and identify a wide-range of strategies to incorporate into their organizations. Upon completion of the training participants will join the YTTC Learning Community to receive additions resources and supports. Each participant will receive a workbook. Space is limited.
This workshop will overview the key components of the newly developed Youth ThriveTM Framework including how the brain develops, the impact of trauma on adolescent development, the importance of social connections, promoting cognitive & social-emotional competence, concrete supports in times of need, increasing youth resilience, and protective and promotive factors which reduce risk while promoting thriving in adolescents.
Youth Thrive Training Topics
Overview ~ National Symposium
The Colorado Division of Youth Corrections (DYC) is merging two of their annual conferences with this year’s NPJS Symposium being held in Denver from October 30 – November 3, 2016.
One of the Colorado groups participating in the Symposium will be the Providers, private firms that manage the state’s juvenile corrections facilities. From this group, we anticipate 500 participants.
The second Colorado group will be representatives from Senate Bill 94. This a group that manages detention beds in Colorado. From this group, we anticipate 250 attendees.
NPJS expects an additional 250 attendees from the remaining states and/or foreign countries. On average over the past decade, 42-46 states plus Great Britain, South Korea, Guam, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands have been represented at the National Symposium.
The schedule will be somewhat longer this year to accommodate the two different Colorado groups, so on any given day we expect approximately 750 to be onsite.
In addition, we have invited representatives from The Annie E. Casey Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the National Center for Juvenile Justice, the Justice Policy Institute (JPI), the Council for State Governments (CSG), the Western Region for the Coalition of Juvenile Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP).