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- Arts, Learning and Youth Development
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Upcoming Events (You Shouldn't Miss)
Youth Development Learning Network (YDLN) Reunion
CNYD cordially invites all our past Youth Development Learning Network (YDLN) organizations, friends and associates to join our past and present staff as we celebrate the new year with old friends over lunch!- Learn what's new at CNYD - new trainings, new staff, new directions!
- Exchange successes, challenges, and resources with other youth development
professionals!
- Take a break and have a fabulous lunch...on us!Youth Development Learning Network (YDLN) Reunion details:
WHEN: Tuesday, January 11, 2005
TIME: 11:00am - 1:00pm
WHERE: SF LGBT Community Center, Rainbow Room
1800 Market Street, San Francisco
This is a FREE event
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Please R.S.V.P. to Herna at 415.495.0622 x321 or herna@cnyd.org no later than Wednesday, January 5, 2005.
The TAO of Networking!
Food! Drink! Connections! For Arts Educators:
Join other Bay Area teaching artists, arts organizations, and others committed to supporting young people through high quality and dynamic arts opportunities in our communities. The TAO of Networking will be a chance for individuals and organizations to meet each other, learn from each other, and build relationships. You will also learn more about the ways TAO supports teaching artists and be introduced to the TAO website which connects teaching artists to professional opportunities throughout the Bay Area.
Teaching Artists Organized (TAO) is a collection of organizations and individuals sharing a passion for the important work that teaching artists do in schools, communities and institutions. Founding members are California Shakespeare Theater, Theatre Bay Area, Julia Morgan Center for the Arts, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and Community Network for Youth Development (CNYD).Organizations you can expect to meet at The TAO of Networking include:
Alameda County Office of Education; Arts Providers Alliance of San Francisco; Berkeley Repertory Theatre; Brava! For Women in the Arts; California Shakespeare Theater; Community Network for Youth Development ; Intersection for the Arts; Julia Morgan Center for the Arts; Museum of Children's Art; Performing Arts Workshop; San Jose Repertory Theatre; Theatre Bay Area; Theatre Works; Word for Word; and more!
The TAO of Networking details:
WHEN: Monday January 31, 2005
TIME: 5:30 - 7:30 pm
WHERE: Berkeley Repertory Theatre | 2025 Addison Street in Berkeley
This is a FREE Event!
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Please R.S.V.P. to Desdemona Chiang at Theatre Bay Area at 415.430.1140 x18 or by email at desdemona@theatrebayarea.org.
Introduction to Youth Development 2-Day Training
The perfect training for new staff members! This training leads youth practitioners through the foundations of the youth development framework for practice.This training will:
- exlore the process of turning research-based theory into effective practice with young people
- engage the Youth Development Guide, developed by CNYD as an easy-to-use tool for creating challenging and engaging learning environments in after school. It provides specific and practical advice on strengthening individual staff practices and organizational policies in after school programs to support learning and young people's healthy development.Introduction to Youth Development Training Details:
WHEN: Thursday, February 24 and Friday, February 25, 2005
TIME: To be announced
WHERE: To be announced
$60-$150 Registration Fee (according to your agency budget) includes a Youth Development Guide
Breakfast and Lunch will be provided!FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Please contact Herna Cruz, Project Coordinator at 415.495.0622 x321 or herna@cnyd.org.
CNYD Looks at Equity and Diversity
This spring, CNYD continues its exploration of creating safe and equitable spaces in youth development organizations. We are proud to once again partner with California Tomorrow to deliver a special training series that leads participants on an exploration of diversity, equity, and youth development in youth programs.
We will also kick-off the winter with a brand new Speaker’s Forum Series! This 3-part series will explore youth development as it relates to specific communities of young people in the Bay Area, LGBT youth, African American youth, and Immigrant youth.Upcoming Equity and Diversity Events
Speakers Forum Series: Youth Development in Diverse Communities
Out After School: Gender and Sexuality in Youth Development: Wednesday, January 26, 2005
Cultural and Historical Influences on African American Youth: Wednesday, February 2, 2005
Supporting Immigrant Youth and Parents: Wednesday, February 9, 2005
$10 Registration Fee per Speakers Forum
Breakfast will be provided!Locations and times To Be Announced! Please visit www.cnyd.org soon for more details.
Youth Development Special Series: Diversity & Equity in Youth Programs
The Special Series is an opportunity for up to 20 Bay Area youth serving agencies and after school programs to reflect upon and examine their program practices using the CNYD’s Youth Development Framework for Practice and California Tomorrow’s framework for addressing equity, access and diversity. We will draw upon our collective expertise to challenge inequities and build understanding and respect for all young people. In addition to the five training sessions, we will offer an online component as well as five hours of on-site coaching to help agencies apply concepts and lessons learned in the Special Series. Through a variety of experiential activities, we will support you in looking at who the youth are in your program and community and how you serve them. We will begin to explore the dimensions of diversity including ethnicity, culture, gender, language and sexual orientation. We will look at how to create an emotionally safe, nurturing, and inclusive environment in your program and organization. We will focus upon developing young people’s engagement in their communities. The Series is a partnership with California Tomorrow and Region 4, which is based in the Alameda County Office of Education.Training Dates:
Friday, March 11, 2005
Friday, March 18, 2005
Friday, April 8, 2005
Friday, April 22, 2005
Friday, April 29, 2005For more information about the Special Series, please contact Herna Cruz, Project Coordinatorat 415.495.0622 x321 or herna@cnyd.org.
New Training Offerings at CNYD!
CNYD is proud to announce our latest innovative training series for youth workers called “Making it Happen”. Each course in the series integrates a blend of online and self-study activities with in-person training followed up by individualized on-the-job coaching.
Making it Happen: Youth Participation is designed to lead the direct youth service practitioner through an in-depth exploration of the practice of youth participation as defined by the youth development framework for practice. By the end of the training, youth practitioners will have developed knowledge and skills to practically apply the concepts of youth leadership, decision-making, and belonging to their programs.
Making it Happen: Relationship Building: In this course, youth practitioners will focus on exploring the dimensions of relationship building, examining the impact of the adult role for building relationships with youth, practicing communication skills that promote relationship building and positive group dynamics, and developing an action plan to address relationship building in their programs.Participants of each Making it Happen Course must have a computer with reliable access to the internet. An Introduction to Youth Development is a pre-requisite for any of the Making it Happen Courses.
Each course consists of 25 hours of valuable and engaging work in a variety of learning styles:
- 10 hours of online learning activities that define key concepts, present case studies, provide opportunities for reflection and facilitate on-going virtual discussions;
- 10 hours of in the room training that provides opportunities for practice, group learning and modeling of key concepts and skills;
- 5 hours per agency of individualized on-the-job coaching that allow participants to implement an action plan to make real change in their programs.Making it Happen Course details:
Step 1: Course Orientation (Conference Call)
Step 2: Two weeks of Self-Paced Online Self Study 1
Step 3: Training Day 1 (5 hours in the room)
Step 4: Two weeks of Self-Paced Online Self Study 2
Step 5: Training Day 2 (5 hours in the room)
Step 6: On the job coaching at your site to complete action plans
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: If you are interested in bringing this innovative training course to your staff or community, contact Reba Rose, Director of Training, at 415.495.0622 x318 or reba@cnyd.org.
Arts, Learning, and Youth Development Update
This past fall, CNYD brought dozens of people together over 2 separate events to investigate the connections between the arts, learning, and youth development.
On September 22, over 60 people gathered at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to hear Philip Yenawine, renowned museum educator and creator of the Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) curriculum currently being brought to Bay Area schools by Community Artreach Program. Participants had a demonstration of the VTS teaching method focused on the beginning viewer. Led by Mr. Yenawine, we considered this teaching method in an out-of-school, youth development context and noted all of the ways that participation in VTS encourages young learners to express their thoughts and ideas in a safe, non-judging learning environment.
We followed this Speaker’s Forum with Arts in Afterschool: A Bay Area Convening on November 16 at the Embarcadero YMCA. Approximately 50 teaching artists, arts administrators, and after school staff joined CNYD, the Youth Development Peer Network (YDPN) and Teaching Artists Organized (TAO) to help articulate the connections between arts and learning in an after school environment. The conversation was anchored by a presentation of youth and adolescent development research that supports the notion that arts-based organized activities are some of the most valuable experience for young people in building essential skills for adulthood. Following the presentation, a diverse panel of community arts educators and after-school providers talked with participants about their successes and challenges in creating and maintaining partnerships with each other, especially in a school setting. This dynamic was brought to life at the end of the day with a site visit to Balboa High School where Community Works and Just Think have fantastic programs both during and after school.
The general feeling at the end of the day was that people wanted to have more convenings like this, connect with each other to create effective and dynamic arts partnerships in after school, and have some real hands-on trainings and/or conversations regarding evaluation and assessment. The Arts Providers Alliance of San Francisco, a group of individuals and organizations that work together to bring arts to the San Franicisco Unified School District is planning to pick up the discussion with an event in February.Routes to Learning Update
As part of the United Way and the Koret Foundation’s Routes to Learning Initiative, and in partnership with SRI International (SRI), CNYD developed a series of technical assistance workshops for all Routes to Learning grantees. These workshops were based on the Framework for Promoting Learning in Afterschool, a new tool that CNYD and SRI are hoping will continue to help school-based after school strengthen and improve their academic programs in ways that are consistent with both youth development principles and learning sciences research. The workshops, aimed at Homework Help and Enrichment Activities, engaged approximately 30 participants from Koret funded sites and brought to light such issues as communication with school staff, supporting after-school staff to create lessons for a diverse group of learners, and recruiting and utilizing volunteers and outside sub-contractors.Youth Voices Report
On December 10, Milbrey McLaughlin of the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and their Communities joined a diverse and dynamic panel of young people to present and respond to the findings of her report Youth Voices on Learning After School: A Qualitative Evaluation of the San Francisco Beacon Initiative. The study, which was supported by funding by the S.H. Cowell Foundation, sought to learn from young people participating in five Beacon Centers how they felt about their involvement in the program. Participants at the December 10th forum found the research presentation highly informative as it reinforced the importance of such youth development practices as relationship building and youth participation.
More importantly, the roughly 60 participants were inspired by the input of the youth panel. The panel - Jessica Copi of San Francisco Youth Commission, Khalid Harper and Kenneth Hopkins of Youth In Focus, Aisha Abbas of Richmond Village Beacon, and Antonio Caceres of WritersCorp was described as “thoughtful and honest…a very passionate group of young people.” The feedback from participants was that they wanted even more opportunities to hear directly from young people in this capacity.
To download a copy of Youth Voices on Learning After School: A Qualitative Evaluation of the San Francisco Beacon Initiative visit our website at www.cnyd.org.Announcing the New Mott After School Academies
With the support of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, CNYD has been working with other key partners in the field of after school to design an exciting new professional development offering for launch in the new year. This offering, the Afterschool Teaching Academy (ASTA), will be a three-day intensive training in developing content-rich afterschool curriculum. The Afterschool Academy Development Committee, which includes Sam Piha and Reba Rose of CNYD, has been integrally involved in creating the materials and will also be on the training team leading the sessions. The first of these Academies is scheduled to take place in Atlanta in February.FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Please visit www.foundationsinc.org. Learn more about planning Afterschool Academies in your area. Contact Theresa Daly, Director of Professional Development at 888.977.5437.
The Youth Development Peer Network (YDPN) Corner
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
- Free registration in YDOL – “the online resource for youth development professionals”
- 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 contact Lynn Johnson, Youth Development Specialist at 415.495.0622 x319 or email ydpn@cnyd.org.
YDPN Co-Sponsors CalSac Roadshows
The CalSAC Bay Area Chapter, the YDPN, and CDTC host Bay Area Road Shows, fun, interactive Saturday trainings for youth workers. “Learn it today, use it on Monday!” Workshops are hands-on and give helpful tips for integrating science, drama, sports, cooking, and visual arts into your youth programs.
There are 3 dates and 3 Bay Area locations to choose from:
- January 22, 2005 – Petaluma
- February 12, 2005 – Oakland
- March 5, 2005 – Livermore
To download a PDF of the Event Registration form, click here.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Contact Lori Ottolini, lottolini@aol.com or CalSAC at 415.957.9775.
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