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Join us for our fourth annual conference and celebrate with us our 10th anniversary. This year we expand our exploration and understanding of resilience and how we develop positive youth outcomes.
Workshops offered this year include:
Community Wide Collaboration
We often overlook or simply don't understand how to make connections with every part of the community to further our cause for long-term and widespread impact. Come discover keys to partnering with not only social services and government agencies, but also businesses, service clubs, the media, the faith community, and political officials. Only together can we create the best atmosphere for our youth so let's get serious about building bridges that benefit everyone!
Oh No They Didn't!
This workshop will address what microaggressions are and define the breakdown of what assaults, insults and invalidations are. The workshop will explore racial/ethnic identity group norms that provide assumption and misunderstanding. Using interactive exercises that will engage and provide a deeper understanding on both the victim and perpetrator
Oh Yes I Did Respond!
This workshop is part 2 in a series and builds from the first to understand where microaggressions come from and how to be a transformational leader to address them when they occur to you or someone else. Using interactive exercises that will continue to engage and provide a deeper understanding on both the victim and perpetrators
Getting High in Plain Sight
New methods of intoxication students are using will be explored. Learn how to recognize it and what you should share with your mentors.
Peer Academic Youth Mentoring for Incarcerated Youth
Gateways for Incarcerated Youth (Gateways) is a public service program of The Evergreen State College. For the past seventeen years, we have provided culturally relevant education and academic mentoring programs inside juvenile correctional institutions.
This interactive workshop will focus on how Gateways approaches the complexity of being "peer mentors" to incarcerated youth across multiple identities, experiences, and abilities. Facilitators will share lessons learned and strategies including match support, program development, and participatory evaluation
Engaging Communities of Faith in Youth Mentoring
Mentoring programs seek to match countless youth with caring, suitable mentors. There are many churches in our communities that are volunteer-rich and mission focused; they may become a very strong partner not only for mentoring, but also to help an entire family with food, clothing and shelter support. Churches can also provide a healthy, holistic foundation with 12-step programs and support for single moms, grandparents and others charged with raising the youth.
MarijuanaJust the Facts
With the legalization of marijuana for adults in Washington State, the impacts on youth are beginning to surface in our communities and schools. This workshop will share current youth use and perception data, as well as current research relative to the impact of marijuana use on adolescents. Current resources and tools will be highlighted, with plenty of time left over for discussion.
Cultural Responsiveness
Cultural Responsiveness for Youth and Their Families
Workshop Description: This workshop will address race, ethnicity, and cultural identities and their intersections for students and their families. We will examine how culture influences the ways in which we all interact with others; both within the culture I belong to, and outside. This workshop will also describe and examine communication through cultural lenses, and how it interacts across and within cultures. Finally, will use the ADDRESSING model to examine how these identities provide support and strength to students, ultimately resulting in a praxis exercise to cement these concepts
I Have a Story to Tell: Using Media to Tell Your Story
Mentoring programs miss out on many opportunities to engage more donors, recruit more mentors and make more matches because they are failing to get their story told. With the constant buzz for attention in traditional and social media, organizations that reach greater success do so by getting others to help tell their story. Developing a communications strategy will allow you work smarter, not harder, as you let the story drive new stakeholders to your mission.
Mission Statement to Measurement: Evaluation Concepts, Strategies & Tools for Small Mentoring Programs
How can smaller mentoring programs or programs with less evaluation capacity ensure and improve service delivery and demonstrate their impact to funders and other stakeholders? This workshop introduces basic evaluation concepts, strategies and tools specific to mentoring programs. It provides common examples of how mentoring programs can leverage the data that they already collect with additional data that can be collected relatively easily using existing mentee outcome surveys. Participants will leave the workshop with draft program outcomes, data collection templates and survey tools, as well as multiple evaluation toolkits for further professional development.
Digital Aggression LOL (Life on Line)
This session will consider the internet and our "tech savvy" youth. Participants will look at 'bullying', cyberbullying, and life on line. They will also discuss things to consider and way to help ensure that youth become even more savvy and safer - online.
Say Yes to Empower and No to Enable
When we use encouraging words as a first step we begin building the confidence of the children/youth we encounter daily. This workshop will assist professionals of all backgrounds to utilize their power of encouragement. Three techniques shared in this workshop will show how mentors can use encouragement to refresh stale relationships, gain more trust, and strengthen our children/youth's participation. This session will encourage parents and professionals from various backgrounds to reflect, listen and become aware of how our words, body language, posture and demeanor can enable or empower our children, you decide.
The Mentor Advocate Model
Here is your opportunity to learn more about "cross racial" mentoring and what makes mentoring advocacy effective.
Growth Mindset: A Tool for Increasing Student Success Through Mentoring
Mentoring programs seek to match countless youth with caring, suitable mentors. There are many churches in our communities that are volunteer-rich and mission focused; they may become a very strong partner not only for mentoring, but also to help an entire family with food, clothing and shelter support. Churches can also provide a healthy, holistic foundation with 12-step programs and support for single moms, grandparents and others charged with raising the youth.
Building a Smart and Effective Program on Small Budget
Success is not dependent solely on large financial reserves. Find out ways to present a quality product and effective services on a tight budget. Through partnerships, in -kind donations, people - to-people "investment raising" , working board members, and wise business advice and strategy, you can become a significant organization shaping your community for the long-term.
Standing Together: Foster Care Permanency Pact
Using digital stories for youth aged out of care, exercises and the Foster Club Permanency Pact. This training will discuss concrete ways to help youth obtain support and mentoring as they transition into adulthood.
Developing Healthy Relationships and Quality Programs:
Participants will receive knowledge and tools to increase their program quality and learn how to develop healthy relationships, which will ensure longevity of matches and greater outcomes for youth. The presenters have 24-years of expertise in formal mentoring, have achieved state and national awards and developed their own program on the Inventory of Evidence Based Practices. They will offer insight from their internationally published work to help you increase your competence. This workshop will include interactive and fun elements to help you practice and retain what you learn.
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AdresseCampion Ballroom - Seattle University (Afficher)
914 E. Jefferson St
Seattle, WA 98122
United States
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| Âge minimum : 18 |
| Enfants bienvenus : Non |
| Non-fumeur : Non |
| Accessible aux fauteuils roulants : Oui |
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