Traditional youth programs have often struggled to find meaningful ways for youth to lead programs. The YEF Training Series helps adult allies learn how to better engage youth, and provide instructions on supporting young people to develop their own voices, their own solutions to community issues, and their own programming.
2012 Youth Empowerment Cohort
In the Spring of 2012, sixteen staff from San Francisco youth programs are participating in the Youth Empowerment Cohort. Through twice-monthly day-long workshops, the cohort is an intensive training that will cover topics such as: Preparing for Youth Leadership, Skill-Development for Youth Leaders, Engaging Multiple Intelligences, Youth-led Service Learning, and Program Evaluation.
Each training utilizes both best-practices in youth empowerment as well as peer-learning and reflective practice. Additionally, each cohort member will develop an individualized work plan that will lead engage youth leaders to develop a youth-led project in their respective programs/agencies in Fall 2012.
Cohort members come from the following agencies:
- Bayview Beacon (Bayview YMCA)
- Boys and Girls Club of San Francisco
- Center for Young Women's Development
- Central American Resource Center
- Chinatown Community Development Center
- Chinese Progressive Association
- Community Youth Center of San Francisco
- Enterprise for High School Students
- Family Services Agency
- Larkin Street Youth Services
- Inner City Youth
- The Marsh
- Youth Speaks
- Youth Guidance Center Improvement Committee
For more information about future training opportunities, please contact Bryant Tan, Youth Empowerment Fund Manager at btan@dcyf.org or 415-557-6727.