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Building Youth Leaders, Changing Systems
On March 18th and 19th the Alliance partnered Brooklyn Park Youth Services to lead a Youth as Facilitative Leaders (YFL) training. The YFL equips youth and their adult partners to lead and facilitate conversations and consensus building. As youth learn facilitation skills and are supported by adult mentors, they can move into leadership positions, amplify youth voice and help systems advance inclusion practices.
Overall we trained 10 youth leaders and 6 adult partners. Participants came from numerous partners; including City of Brooklyn Park Zanewood Recreation Center, Brooklyn Center, Prairie Seeds Academy, Robbinsdale Cooper, Osseo Senior High, and Park Center high schools.
We will be leading another round of training in the fall 2019. If you are interested in participating in this opportunity please contact Kaysone Syonesa to save your spot!
Looking for opportunity this fall? Americorp VISTA Youth Engagement Specialist Position Open!
The Brooklyn Bridge Alliance for Youth is seeking an AmeriCorps VISTA Youth Engagement Specialist to join our team! The VISTA will provide key expertise in creating and expanding youth engagement opportunities across systems.
The VISTA will also continue to develop and improve on the youth engagement toolkit that will support the Alliance partners in increasing their youth engagement efforts and high quality programming. This role will work alongside the Alliance Project Coordinator, who will provide direct supervision and collaboration on this work.
Excellent opportunity for high quality professional development & career training, facilitation skills, public speaking, networking, and exposure to career options with the Alliance networks after the VISTA service ends with our organization. Additional benefits include housing assistance/stipend. Valid license required. Second language skills helpful, but not required.
*This position is part of the MN Literacy Council Leadership Program cohort. Applications reviewed on rolling basis through May 31 www.mnliteracy.org/americorps-vista
Starts August 1st, 2019.
Taking Action on the Youth Sports Recommendations: Equipment Grant Submitted + Sample Class Designed
Last year we worked with Youth Sport Providers, Parents and Youth to develop recommendations for increasing participation in youth sports for non-participating youth.
Our Community Education Partners are in the process of creating a Youth Sports Sample Class, to attract non-participating youth to try out several sports over the course of a few weeks in an after-school program located at school. Parents will have the chance to access free, easy-entry, youth development focused sport opportunity.
If partners are awarded the Hennepin County Youth Sports Equipment Grant we will have the resources needed to implement this new class this spring and fall. We will evaluate our results to see if this is approach is effective in getting non-participating youth to try out something new.
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