Training & Consultation
Working On It offers participatory workshops to strengthen your staff's youth service delivery skills. From a crash course in creative day camp programming to to the basics of anti-ableist child service delivery, Working On It is ready to add an engaging workshop to your staff's youth work toolbox.
Need a second pair of eyes? Bring aboard Working On It to evaluate your current staff training processes or youth programming schedule. Working On It will provide your organization with a list of recommendations and a series of resources and workshops to meet the needs of your organization.
PAST TRAINING & CONSULTATION PROJECTS
ANTI-ABLEIST CHILD SERVICE DELIVERY: A TRAINING FOR YOUTH WORKERS
Ensure your team is committed to accessibility.
How we understand disability, ableism, and accessibility influences how we interact, relate, and respond to each other.
It is our job as youth and community workers to accommodate youth participants and our fellow staff so that everyone can have meaningful experiences in program spaces. Accommodations should never be an afterthought, but an ongoing process of listening and learning.
This workshop discusses how the language we use can promote accessibility, the basic principles of anti-ableism, neurodiversity, meaningfulness, and strategies for implementing inclusive and accessible youth programming practices.
ESTABLISHING GENDER-INCLUSIVE WORKPLACES AND PROGRAM SPACES: A WORKSHOP FOR YOUTH SERVICE DELIVERY TEAMS
Be prepared for questions and put-downs around gender.
Not everyone knows how to answer youth's questions about gender, or to identify and interrupt gender-based teasing and bullying. Offering youth workers and staff members information, resources, and strategies, Working On It can help you keep your workplace and program spaces welcoming and gender-inclusive.
This workshop will prepare youth workers to protect the gender expression of youth in their program spaces, provide a basic overview of gender-related terms and concepts, and share the active listening strategies crucial to forming trusting and meaningful relationships with youth seeking a safer space.
Don't have time to offer your staff a workshop? Have Working On It create and/or compile information and resources so your team can compassionately and knowledgeably refer youth to appropriate resources.