1:15-2:45 Sessions
Session one
Positive Career Development: Creating a Pathway for Your Future
NicoleTrevino
Nicole Trevino Consulting
This session will provide interactive activities to help participants develop a pathway for their own career development. Participants will identify their key skills, learn to engage professional colleagues to advance their career, align opportunities to their desired contributions, and consider ways to sustain themselves along their professional pathway. The session will help those who are preparing for a career transition, struggling to identify the next step in their career or who are looking to take a proactive approach to shaping their future. All participants will leave with some next steps identified for themselves and have an opportunity to share their challenges and suggestions with others.
NicoleTrevino
Nicole Trevino Consulting
This session will provide interactive activities to help participants develop a pathway for their own career development. Participants will identify their key skills, learn to engage professional colleagues to advance their career, align opportunities to their desired contributions, and consider ways to sustain themselves along their professional pathway. The session will help those who are preparing for a career transition, struggling to identify the next step in their career or who are looking to take a proactive approach to shaping their future. All participants will leave with some next steps identified for themselves and have an opportunity to share their challenges and suggestions with others.
Session Two
Reinforcing Resilience in Youth Through Mindfulness
Sarah Sires Bently, EmpowerED Pathways
Mark Schoenfeld, O.Henry Middle School
Teens often have difficulty with social skills, emotions, attention, focus, confidence, procrastination, and impulsivity. Our thought patterns and emotional states are associated with many mental and physical health problems. Research has shown that mindfulness practices can improve self-compassion, reduce anxiety and depression, and strengthen neural pathways that foster resilience in youth. In this experiential workshop, participants will learn simple yet effective mindfulness techniques to use when working with youth who experience physical, emotional and psychological stress, to reinforce resilience. Participants will learn a variety of tools, including a restorative writing technique that attendees can use to launch their own therapeutic workshops in any youth-serving setting. Discover how mindfulness can change your work with youth!
Sarah Sires Bently, EmpowerED Pathways
Mark Schoenfeld, O.Henry Middle School
Teens often have difficulty with social skills, emotions, attention, focus, confidence, procrastination, and impulsivity. Our thought patterns and emotional states are associated with many mental and physical health problems. Research has shown that mindfulness practices can improve self-compassion, reduce anxiety and depression, and strengthen neural pathways that foster resilience in youth. In this experiential workshop, participants will learn simple yet effective mindfulness techniques to use when working with youth who experience physical, emotional and psychological stress, to reinforce resilience. Participants will learn a variety of tools, including a restorative writing technique that attendees can use to launch their own therapeutic workshops in any youth-serving setting. Discover how mindfulness can change your work with youth!
Session Three
Safe Spaces Through Inclusivity and Trauma Informed Work
Grace Miller, Planned Parenthood
Cory Hall-Martin, Lifeworks
Creating a safe environment for youth and practitioners is an essential foundation for fostering resiliency and sustaining programs. This session will focus on using a trauma- informed approach and inclusive language to create comfort and safety in sex education groups, which increases youth and practitioner retention. Participants will leave this session with specific tools they can use immediately to promote resiliency, understand challenging behaviors, answer questions about sexual health, and create safe spaces for all youth.
Grace Miller, Planned Parenthood
Cory Hall-Martin, Lifeworks
Creating a safe environment for youth and practitioners is an essential foundation for fostering resiliency and sustaining programs. This session will focus on using a trauma- informed approach and inclusive language to create comfort and safety in sex education groups, which increases youth and practitioner retention. Participants will leave this session with specific tools they can use immediately to promote resiliency, understand challenging behaviors, answer questions about sexual health, and create safe spaces for all youth.
Session Four
Who's your data? An Innovative Approach to Building Strong Programs and Resilient Staff
Rebecca Shirsat and Jina Sorensen
Engenderhealth
The information session will introduce the rationale for practicing data for decision making (DDM) and review commonly used continuous quality improvement (CQI) frameworks in programming for community service organizations.
EngenderHealth (EH) U.S.’s Professional Development and Leadership (PD&L) program uses the principles of DDM and CQI to improve the quality of Re:MIX comprehensive sexuality education curriculum implementation, as well as to generate professional development activities for Re:MIX facilitators. Session participants will walk through the EH U.S. process as an example of applying DDM and CQI to a youth serving program in real-time. Participants will be given the opportunity to adapt our process to their work (via a gallery walk through key steps of the DDM process) and engage in group discussion (via reflection and share out) to begin refining a process that applies to their own programming. EH U.S. staff are excited to offer their expertise to participants during the session, and offer our contact information for participants to follow-up for additional coaching/support."
Rebecca Shirsat and Jina Sorensen
Engenderhealth
The information session will introduce the rationale for practicing data for decision making (DDM) and review commonly used continuous quality improvement (CQI) frameworks in programming for community service organizations.
EngenderHealth (EH) U.S.’s Professional Development and Leadership (PD&L) program uses the principles of DDM and CQI to improve the quality of Re:MIX comprehensive sexuality education curriculum implementation, as well as to generate professional development activities for Re:MIX facilitators. Session participants will walk through the EH U.S. process as an example of applying DDM and CQI to a youth serving program in real-time. Participants will be given the opportunity to adapt our process to their work (via a gallery walk through key steps of the DDM process) and engage in group discussion (via reflection and share out) to begin refining a process that applies to their own programming. EH U.S. staff are excited to offer their expertise to participants during the session, and offer our contact information for participants to follow-up for additional coaching/support."
