Fri, September 26, 2025
9:00 am - 11:00 am

OST Registry

It was a great experience, I learned a lot. It gave me the opportunity to see some areas where I need to work to better my leadership and my program!

Lorena D
Afterschool Professional

Disclosure of Proprietary Interest Policy

Prime Time Palm Beach County, Inc.’s Training Instructors

All facilitators of Prime Time’s Professional Development trainings are full-time staff working for the organization. Prime Time does not currently, but may in the future, employ independent contractors to design or deliver continuing education or trainings.

Prime Time Palm Beach County, Inc. Materials

All products, instruments, devices or materials used in Prime Time’s Professional Development trainings are the property of Prime Time Palm Beach County, Inc., therefore there are no product promotions or endorsements during learning events. Prime Time does not sell products or services and therefore there are no royalties or profits gained.

Disclosure of Proprietary Interest

If in the future, any of Prime Time’s facilitators have a proprietary interest in products, instruments, devices or materials used in training, these interests must be divulged in writing and proof of this disclosure must be evident in marketing and learning materials for the specific training event. No instructor may receive any share of the royalties or profits from the product promotion or endorsement. Prime Time Palm Beach County does not support, condone, or encourage working with instructors who may have a commercial interest in any products or services mentioned during the course of a training event.

The director of Professional Development is responsible for approving all training content and materials. Should the training reference a specific product, material, instrument, or service, the director or Professional Development is accountable for ensuring that the instructor either has no proprietary interest or makes a full disclosure. Prime Time Palm Beach County, Inc. reserves the right to dismiss any trainer who fails to make a full disclosure regarding proprietary interest with regards to any aspect of a training event.

In the unlikely event that a trainer does have proprietary interests and is still contracted to conduct a training or workshop, this information will be communicated to prospective participants prior to the start of the program through Prime Time’s website and registration forms.

Managing Emotions in OST – IN-PERSON

This introductory session is designed to build practitioners’ knowledge of emotion coaching and develop skills they will incorporate into program activities that teach youth to identify and safely manage their emotional experiences. The purpose is to improve program quality by strengthening and supporting practitioners’ acknowledgement and reflection of their personal emotional landscapes and activations, while also increasing their ability to facilitate the cultivation of skills in the emotional domain of resiliency and life skills with young people. Practitioners are encouraged to continue to deepen learning through the Well-being and Life Skills Initiative and/or other related training offerings on the Prime Time Calendar.

Upon successful completion of this training, the participant will earn 2 clock hours (.2 CEUs) of training. 

Training Objectives

Participants will:

Understand the framework for resiliency and life skills generally, and where Emotion Coaching fits within the framework.
Recognize cultural and social factors impact the ways emotions are understood and interpreted.
Practice skills that model empathy and encourage youth to accurately name and manage emotions.
Identify best practices and plan for supporting emotion management and emotion coaching in youth programming.

Core Knowledge, Skills and Competencies Addressed (CKSCs)  

Child/Youth Growth and Development  

Identify – F. Identifies physical, cognitive, language and communication, social and emotional, and creative development benchmarks.  

Apply – C. Communicates about physical, cognitive, language and communication, social and emotional, cultural and creative differences among children and youth.  

Learning Environments and Curriculum  

Physical, Social/Emotional, and Cognitive Development  

Apply – B. Implements strategies to develop young people’s self-awareness, social awareness, self-management, relationship-building and responsible decision-making skills.  

Relationships and Interactions with Children and Youth  

Individual Child / Youth Guidance  

Provides a supportive environment in which children and youth can learn and practice pro-social behaviors.

Primary QIS Scales Addressed  

I. Safe Environment  

I-E. Creating Safe Spaces

I-E-1. Foster positive climate

I-E-2. Convey warmth and respect

I-E-3. Provide support for safe space

I-E-6. Show active inclusion.   

II. Supportive Environment

II-G. Emotion Coaching

II-G.1. Acknowledge emotions

II-G.2. Support young people to name emotions

II-G. 3. Discuss constructive handling

II-G. 4. Discuss emotion causes

III. Interactive Environment  

III-K. Sense of Belonging

III-K.1. Young people get to know each other

III-K.2. Inclusive relationships

III-N. Cultivating Empathy

III.N.2. Encourage understanding other’s emotions

III.N.4. Support valuing of differences. 