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Working with youth

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In this series of stand-alone workshops, youth workers and young people learn how to address inequities at the programmatic, organizational and institutional levels.

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The youth development webinar series provides research-based information on hot topics, trends and program ideas for youth workers over the lunch hour.

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Youth workers address challenging situations in their daily work with young people. In this class, participants will dig into the sticky challenges and issues of youth work and examine various ways to respond to real-life problems in their program.

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Exploring the research behind positive youth development can be critical to how we understand and work with youth. In this class you will learn skills and create resources to help you work with young people.

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This course is based on the Rings of Engagement, which shows the range of youth engagement and youth-adult partnerships.

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WeConnect is both a program model and a curriculum that helps young people see that they are participants in a global society. It is developed for middle school-aged youth, but can be adapted for other age groups.

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We can design programs to support social and emotional learning (SEL), but we can also be more intentional about how we respond in the moment to SEL skill-building opportunities.

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This training builds an understanding of how to support social emotional learning (SEL).  Participants explore practices that introduce SEL opportunities into existing programs. They walk away with ways to support social emotional skill growth.

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