Social Justice Youth Development (SJYD) workshops are intended to expose youth development organizations and youth serving programs to the SJYD approach. Healing-centered anti-racism, critical consciousness, and youth-adult partnerships are foundational elements of SJYD and serve as central concepts for learning within each workshop.

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Each workshop is 2 hours and can be delivered on an individual basis or as a series:

• Introduction to Social Justice Youth Development

• White Supremacy Culture & Racial Equity Principles

• Trauma and Organizations: Sanctuary Model & Organizational Change

• Abolitionism & Social Justice Youth Development

• Radical Healing: Culture, Community, Critical Consciousness, and Care

• Defining Youth Development: History, Principles, Practices, Policies, and Approaches

• Youth Voice & Adultism

• Organizational Change Strategies & Sanctuary Model

• Culturally Responsive Youth Participatory Evaluation

• Ethics of SJYD Practice

Racial Healing and Processing Groups are small, weekly racial affinity groups with the following objectives:

• Foster community to engage in collective healing strategies.

• Discuss and interrogate participant relationship to whiteness/anti-blackness and associated privilege and oppression. 

• Analyze participant socialization processes and personal experiences of being harmed and/or causing harm.

• Find ways to move toward social justice action.

• Apply what is learned to professional roles and across participants’ organizations (engagement with colleagues, programming, organizational practices, policies, and procedures etc.)

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RPG participants are separated into racial affinity groups that provide opportunities to build awareness, knowledge, and action for racial justice and equity.  The RPGS value relationships, reflection, learning, healing, and action. 

The RPGS are typically weekly, 2-hour online experiences that span 15 weeks.  All RPGS are co-facilitated by trained facilitators whose racial identity matches that of the participants. 

Equity coaching supports individuals and organizations in implementing the social justice youth development model within youth programs and youth serving organizations.  Trained coaches first develop relationships with youth development organizations and youth serving programs.  

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Within the context of this relationship, equity coaches:

 

• Observe coaching participants in a programmatic context to facilitate behavioral changes and offer suggestions for integrating SJYD successfully into programming 

• Provide technical support in a variety of topics including equity and inclusion

• Engage/dialogue with individuals/organizations using the social justice youth development framework, integrating critical building and reflection

• Equip individual /organizations with up-to-date knowledge in the best practices of social justice youth development, trauma- informed care, and radical healing

• Deliver Social Justice Youth Development introductory and advanced skill-building workshops

• Offer professional development training relevant to Social Justice Youth Development principles and practices.

• Connect individuals/organizations with shared values to support one another in multiple ways