GCSCORED Institute on Youth Development, Relational & Emotional Wellness
June Learning Opportunities
Session 1: Supporting the Supporters™
📅 Thursday, June 25, 2026
🕕 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EST
📍 In Person & Zoom
💲 FREE Through Grant Funding
Those who serve youth often spend so much time caring for others that they neglect their own wellness. This interactive session is designed to help youth-serving professionals strengthen their own relational and emotional wellness while gaining practical tools they can use immediately in their work with youth.
Session 2: Cultivating Wellness from the Root Up™
📅 Tuesday, June 30, 2026
🕛 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EST
💻 Live Leadership Lab™ (Zoom)
💲 FREE Through Grant Funding
Healthy relationships and supportive environments begin below the surface. Using GCSCORED's relationship-centered and neuroscience-informed approaches, participants will explore how thoughts, emotions, interactions, and mindsets influence well-being and the environments in which youth develop.
Supporting Those Who Support Youth
The GCSCORED Institute on Youth Development, Relational & Emotional Wellness is a year-round professional learning initiative designed to educate, equip, and empower those who support youth directly or indirectly.
Whether you are a parent, educator, counselor, mentor, coach, youth worker, faith leader, social service provider, or community advocate, your role matters. Young people thrive when the adults and systems around them are healthy, connected, and equipped with practical tools to support relational, emotional, and developmental growth.
Through trainings, workshops, Live Leadership Labs™, and professional learning experiences, participants will gain practical strategies grounded in neuroscience, relationship-centered approaches, emotional wellness, and positive youth development.
Because when supporters are supported, youth thrive.
Why This Institute Matters?
Youth-serving professionals are experiencing increasing demands, stressors, and responsibilities. The GCSCORED Institute was created to strengthen the people behind the programs, classrooms, ministries, teams, and services that support youth every day.
Who Should Attend?
These sessions are designed for individuals and organizations that support youth, including:
• Parents and Caregivers
• Educators
• School Personnel
• School Counselors and Social Workers
• Youth Workers
• Mentors
• Coaches
• Faith-Based Leaders
• Community Organizations
• Social Service Providers
• Probation and Juvenile Justice Professionals
• Helping Professionals
No prior training is required.
What You'll Gain
• Practical strategies to strengthen emotional wellness
• Tools to improve communication and relationship building
• Simple neuroscience-based approaches to support youth development
• RUMERTIME® strategies for managing stress, anxiety, challenges, and transitions
• Techniques for cultivating resilience in youth and adults
• Approaches for creating supportive environments where young people can thrive
• Opportunities for personal and professional renewal
• Resources you can immediately apply in your home, school, organization, or community
About the GCSCORED Institute
The GCSCORED Institute on Youth Development, Relational & Emotional Wellness was created to provide accessible, practical, and transformative professional learning opportunities for those who influence the lives of young people.
The Institute integrates GCSCORED's evidence-informed frameworks, including the RUMERTIME Process®, relationship-centered approaches, neuroscience, emotional wellness education, and positive youth development principles.
Participants will leave with tools they can use personally and professionally to strengthen relationships, improve well-being, and support healthy youth development.
Registration is now open.
For additional information, contact GCSCORED at:
📧 imhers@gcscored.org
📞 574-315-9981
Every Piece Matters™
Indiana Youth Worker Well-Being Project, Indiana Youth Institute