Health and Safety for SAC Directors Directors are responsible for hiring, training, and maintaining staff who provide a healthy and safe environment for children. This course will help directors look at policies and procedures that reinforce high-quality health and safety practices. Directors will get the most out of this training if they bring a copy […]
The Network for Youth Success is here to meet your needs for regulatory training! In this NEW workshop series, participants who attend all 5 sessions will receive 15 OCFS approved training hours that covers nine OCFS training areas for school-age care. This series is designed for front-line staff who need to obtain the 15 hours […]
This presentation will provide a brief overview of Native cultures, health challenges facing many communities, and historical traumas. Emerging strategies to engage with Native American peoples more respectfully, and efforts to restore community wellbeing will also be discussed.
What are the benefits to enduring partnerships? What are the best first steps to take to get strong partnerships going? How can municipalities and school districts work together to create high quality afterschool and summer programs? What steps can we take to develop and support champions for our programs? ….and learn about the timely […]
To start off the new year in this primary session, participants will be able to identify their own DEI growth potential and explore the core concepts of dignity and respect-- and investigate the hallmarks of intersectionality. Participants will also redefine their major-identity markers and unpack why it’s so hard for many of us to adapt […]
In the second session of our series on finding common ground, participants will discuss intersectionality and the benefits and importance of discussing critical issues that spark controversy regarding race, gender, class and sexual orientation. Participants will also reflect on their roles as gatekeepers in the workplace, and why creating a culture of dignity and respect […]
Trauma-Informed Care is very helpful to understand how an individual person may be impacted by trauma. This session expands TIC to entire communities and focuses on how various factors and residual consequences of historical and continuing challenges may create walls or barriers that may impede developing cross-cultural interactions and relationships.
In the third session of our series on intersectionality and finding common ground, participants will be able to unpack the political implications of why diversity and inclusion have become such charged issues, and discuss what we as educators can do about continuing to create socially-safe spaces for youth. Participants in the session will explore how to […]
This session will provide various models based on various Native American cultures and additional resources to help participants understand how single, focused areas of human and related services can expand to a greater understanding of the inter-relationship of multiple health and social issues impacting youth, their families, and communities.
Presented by: Bret Ratner is the Vice President of Grants at Good Shepherd Services (GSS), a large NYC-based nonprofit that serves more than 28,000 children and families annually through over 90 programs. In this role, he supervises a team of six Grants Managers and Grant Writers that are responsible for securing funding from NYC, NY State, and […]
