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Upcoming Fall Events | Workshops and Speakers Forums
This fall, CNYD offers two powerful and experiential workshops designed to meet the needs of program staff working with youth in community based organizations and after school programs.
Introduction to Youth Development
A high-energy 2-day course that provides youth programming staff with an overview of research-based youth development principles and practices. Its purpose is to prepare participants to adopt and begin implementing youth development strategies to support young people’s healthy development – based on CNYD’s Youth Development Guide.Introduction to Youth Development details:
WHEN: Thursday and Friday October 20 and 21, 2005
TIME: 9:00am - 4:00pm
WHERE: San Francisco - Location TBA
COST: Sliding $105 – $145 depending on organizational budget (includes $35 reduced price for CNYD’s Youth Development Guide, which all participants in the course will receive.) **Scholarships are also available.Diversity, Equity, and Youth Development
This 2-day course is an opportunity for staff of youth serving agencies and afterschool programs to expand their efforts to create programs that challenge inequities and build understanding and respect for young people’s diverse backgrounds and experiences. Through a variety of experiential activities, CNYD will support you in better understanding the youth in your program and community, and in reflecting on how well you serve them.Diversity, Equity, and Youth Development details:
WHEN: Thursday and Friday December 15 and 16, 2005
TIME: 9:00am - 2:00pm
WHERE: East Bay Location TBA
COST: Sliding $70 – $110 depending on organizational budget. **Scholarships are also available.
FALL SPEAKER’S FORUMS
Several times a year, CNYD invites members of the youth development community to come together in dialogue with a policy-maker, researcher, exceptional youth worker, young person or community leader as part of the CNYD Speaker's Forum series. Following each cutting-edge presentation, lively dialogue ensues as the community analyzes, challenges and learns about different approaches and perspectives on working with youth.Enrichment and Learning in After-School
The after school environment is one rich with learning opportunities young people rarely get from other experiences. The combination of crucial developmental supports, direct help with school work, and engagement in quality enrichment activities such as arts and sports, provide students the chance to build relevant skills to improve their performance in school and beyond. However, with so much focus on academic outcomes for after-school programs, enrichment activities are often compromised.
Join us as we bring Bay Area after-school practitioners together with enrichment providers to articulate the ways that enrichment activities enhance students learning and how we can work together to more successfully in engage schools and policy makers in this dialogue.This Speaker’s Forum is offered in collaboration with Teaching Artists Organized (TAO – pronounced “dow”), a collection of Bay Area organizations and individuals connecting teaching artists to institutions, tools and resources, and each other for the purpose of further professionalization of the field of teaching artistry in schools and communities.
Enrichment and Learning in After school details:
WHEN: Wednesday, October 26, 2005
TIME: 10:00am - 2:00pm
WHERE: East Bay Location TBA
COST: $15Youth Development Practices in African-American and Latino Communities
Many of our urban communities of color are in a state of crisis. Youth workers in West Oakland, Bayview/Hunter’s Point, and other urban communities tell the tale of too many young people struggling, suffering, and even dying. Effective youth development organizations must keep young people connected and safe from harm. As a youth development community, what can we do to make a difference in this crisis?We at CNYD would like to invite all of you engaged in youth and community development to join us in figuring out how we can all work together to translate youth development theory into actionable and culturally relevant steps that will make change in our urban communities of color. Come learn from each other and join in the dialogue about what can be done.
Youth Development Practices in African-American and Latino Communities details:
WHEN: Wednesday, November 16, 2005
TIME: 10:00am - 12:00pm
WHERE: San Francisco Location TBA
COST: $15FOR FURTHER INFORMATION and REGISTRATION for any TRAINING COURSES and SPEAKER’S FORUMS: Please contact Scott Louie at 415.495.0622 or scott@cnyd.org or register at www.cnyd.org.
2 NEW WORKSHOPS PILOTING THIS FALL
In addition to our very popular courses, Introduction to Youth Development and Diversity, Equity, and Youth Development, we are also piloting 2 brand new courses this fall.The first is Making It Happen: Skill Building, the 3rd in our Making It Happen series. This course provides in-depth exploration of core youth development practices utilizing a variety of dynamic activities; online learning, in-the-room experiential training, and on-the-job consultation. Making it Happen: Skill Building is designed to support youth workers in creating powerful opportunities for youth to develop skills. This course will begin in mid-October.
We are also pleased to be able to offer the community, Support Youth Development in Your Program: For Program Leaders and Site Directors. This training, which will begin in November, is designed to support mid-level managers in strengthening youth development in their programs through skillful implementation of their roles as leader, coach, and/or manager.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: If you would like information about being part of the pilot audience for Making It Happen: Skill Building, contact Lynn Johnson at 415.495.0622 ex 303 or lynn@cnyd.org.
For interest in Support Youth Development in Your Program: For Program Leaders and Site Directors, contact Reba Rose at 415.495.0622 ex 318 or reba@cnyd.org.
Changes at CNYD
Just like the field of youth work, CNYD is changing and growing in exciting directions. In order to address numerous local, statewide, and national projects, we are building and strengthening our team of highly talented staff to keep CNYD at the cutting edge of the youth development field and ready to meet the training and capacity building needs of our diverse clients.PLEASE WELCOME:
- Scott Louie (Events Coordinator) Scott is responsible for overseeing and implementing all event coordination functions for the CNYD team of trainers and consultants. Prior to coming to CNYD, Scott served as a program coordinator for Kearny Street Workshop, and a writer, editor and television producer for Pacific News Service.
- Asha Mehta (Youth Development Training Specialist) Over the past ten years, Asha has been involved with several youth development initiatives across the Bay Area. She has worked extensively with the Healthy Start Program as a coordinator, evaluator, and grant writer. She has directed a school-based youth empowerment program in San Francisco named Revitalizing Education and Learning and, more recently, taught 9th Grade at HOME BASE, an innovative public charter school in Alameda. Asha also has experience in curriculum development, research, educational technology, bilingual and special education. Asha received her MA in Education from Stanford University and her Teaching Credential from the University of San Francisco.ALSO, meet the rest of our dynamic staff. Many of our veteran employees have taken on different positions within the organization to accommodate our growth.
- Michelle Abrenilla is the Director of Finance and Operations and ensures that CNYD remains fiscally and administratively healthy.
- Joanne Connelly is an Instructional Designer, responsible for the development of CNYD manuals and curriculum, E-learning resources, assessment tools, and presentation materials.
- Sue Eldredge has been our Executive Director since the beginning, having founded the organization in 1994. She continues to be a strong visionary leader, strategic planner, and fund developer.
- Manny Grueso is our Administrative Assistant who brings to CNYD his experience as a health educator with LGBT youth, a performer, and founder /director of DowneFX Hip Hop Dance Company.
- Rudy Hernandez joined our team last winter as a project manager. His work brings him to communities throughout the state focusing on best practices in working with high school students in after school.
- Lynn Johnson provides project management and capacity building for
our Bay Area efforts. Her focus is on maintaining quality in our local
events and representing the youth development voice in local systems initiatives.
- Betsy Merzenich is the new Associate Executive Director of CNYD. She is working very hard to help us maintain the integrity of our organizational structure and culture by managing a large team of people responsible for delivering our local, state, and national projects.
- Sam Piha continues to represent the work of CNYD in his role as a nationally recognized expert in the field of after school. His work allows him to advise and coach large scale initiatives working to improve developmental outcomes for youth.
- Reba Rose provides project management and capacity building for our national and state work, leading our effort to bring the youth development agenda to after school initiatives throughout the United States.RECENT GOODBYES:
- Desiree Almendral (Office Manager) has enrolled at the University of California, Hastings to pursue her law degree.
- Herna Cruz (Project Coordinator) left CNYD to work for Kearny Street Workshop coordinating the upcoming APAture: A Window on the Art of Young Asian Pacific Americans (visit www.kearnystreet.org for more information).
- John Scott (Youth Development Training Specialist) will be working with middle school students in the Oakland Unified School District while completing his coursework in Drama Therapy at the California Institute of Integral Studies.AND ONE LAST SPECIAL RECOGNITION:
Jennifer Fornal is leaving CNYD after 5 years of managing community schools projects alongside Sam Piha. As a crucial voice in the development of the San Francisco Beacon Initiative and the coordinator and leader of the Youth Development Peer Network, Jen has worked tirelessly to create a professional network of youth workers. Jen is leaving CNYD at the end of September to be full-time mom to her 7 month old daughter, Annalisa. All of us here at CNYD will miss Jen very much.
The City of San Francisco’s Adopts Youth Development Standards
Under the leadership of Mayor Gavin Newson and Margaret Brodkin, Director of the SF Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF), the city of San Francisco is working to establish agreements with city youth agencies on a set of quality standards for youth programs. DCYF is currently engaging an advisory group made of representatives from local community-based organizations to participate in the development of these standards. What is a standard, according to DCYF? “A standard describes what we want children, youth and families to experience at a program. It is a practice or essential element of programming that is widely recognized or employed especially because it reflects program excellence. Standards provide a foundation for program quality and a benchmark for professionalism in the service delivered.”The standards being developed by the After school Cluster are based on practices, as defined by the Youth Development Framework for Practice. This city-wide effort to articulate quality standards and measurements and aligned them with capacity-building opportunities is the one of the first of its kind from among major U.S. cities. Other city departments such as the Department of Public Health and the Department of Recreation and Parks are also working to adopt youth development-based policies as well. CNYD is very proud of the opportunity to be working with the city of San Francisco on these efforts.
The High School After School Movement
High school-based after school programs are faced with unique considerations in program design and implementation. High school students require that their out-of-school activities have practical and immediate benefits such as earning money, making connections to future careers, or gaining instruction in high level skills. As the California Department of Education has set aside 21st Century After school grant funding specifically for high schools, CNYD has been providing technical assistance to a learning community of high school-based after school programs throughout the state, focusing on concerns such as recruitment and retention of students, engaging and honoring youth leadership in program design and assessment, and making effective use of new technology in skills-based curriculum.To learn more about the high school after school movement, read “Rethinking the High School Experience: What’s After-School Got to Do With It?”
Also, join the AED Center for Youth Development and Policy for their national audio conference, on Wednesday September 21st at 1:00pm eastern standard time. The panel discussion will include Candy’s own Sam Piha as well as Karen Pittman (Forum for Youth Investment) and Naomi Housman (National High School Alliance). Please register by sending your Name, Organization, Telephone Number, and Email Address to dianayu@forumforyouthinvestment.org.
For more information about Candy’s work with the High School Assets Learning Community, contact Rudy Hernandez, Project Manager, at 415.495.0622 ex 316 or rudy@cnyd.org.
The Youth Development Peer Network (YDPN) Corner
YDPN & Calsac Sponsor “Fundraising & Fund Development” Workshop
The YDPN, in collaboration with the CalSAC Bay Area Chapter, present this interactive and highly useful training event that helps youth workers and program leaders navigate the world of foundations. Come hear a panel of local funders as well as participate in workshops on constructing a winning proposal, creating a fund development plan, and building valuable partnerships.Fundraising and Fund Development details:
WHEN: Thursday September 29, 2005
TIME: 9:00am - 3:00pm
WHERE: UC Berkeley Extension, 425 Market Street, 8th Floor, San Francisco
COST: CalSAC and YDPN Members - $10, Non-Members - $25FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Contact Rebecca Goldberg, rgoldberg@calsac.org or 415.957.9775.
Become a YDPN Member Today!
The YDPN is a community of Bay Area practitioners and organizational leaders committed to positive youth development, who provide professional support to local youth development practitioners.For a limited time, YDPN Membership is FREE and includes:
- Free networking events
- Free trainings
- Access to current events and trainings
- Attendance at YDPN co-sponsored events at a discounted rateFOR FURTHER INFORMATION: To become a member, learn about volunteering on a working committee or assisting with an upcoming event, please send an email to ydpn@cnyd.org.
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