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2010 Confronting Concerns

2009 Confronting Concerns

2008 Confronting Concerns
LESSON PLANS
» 1 Introduction
» 2 Facilitating
» 3 Excercises
» 4 Outreach
» 5 Workshopping
Results
» Session #1
» Session #2
» Session #3 (not available)
» Session #4
» Session #5
Accomplishments
» Living Room Dialogue
» Video + Feedback
» UNICEF Focus Group
» LSA Workshop
» LSA Report
» Harlem Workshop

2007 Confronting Concerns

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2005 Confronting Concerns

2004 Crossing Boundaries

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Confronting Concerns

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
2006 PowerPoint	2006 Video	2007 PowerPoint	2008 Video

2008 CONFRONTING CONCERNS

Overview | Project Goals | Resources | Accomplishments| Affiliates

Overview

In an effort to inspire greater leadership of youth in the project, Confronting Concerns in 2008 initiated a new program titled the Confronting Concerns III Leadership Institute. The institute focused on training youth leaders in facilitation and workshop development so that they would move into roles as workshop facilitators for other youth. (and adults)  It was believed that because young leaders Pwould be spending more time learning about and growing their own leadership skills, they would be better able to design programs that would truly engage other youth.

The program commitment extended from January – August, 2008 and included 5 leadership training workshops and 4 youth-facilitated workshops for adults and youth in the NY City community. Youth leaders certainly benefited from leadership training, and learned more skills in building and facilitating workshops.

Confronting Concerns Participants: Britani, Chloe, Erica, Jamala, Roshelle

Project Goals

Project goals included:

1. Youth Leaders learned specific skills that enabled them to build and facilitate their own workshops, speak confidently in front of groups of youth and adults and engage other youth in taking actions to improve the issues identified.
2. Workshops for youth were theme based and experiential, enabling the youth to learn from one another and created a safe space where everyone feels they can share their ideas.
3. Workshops were action-based and encouraged youth in attendance to take actions that would make a positive change in the community around the issues.
4. The experiences of youth in the workshop were documented through evaluations so the Youth Leaders and adults could work to improve the workshops.
5. The youth learned collaboration, communication, listening skills and were able to cross ethnic boundaries and learned to respect the cultures of other groups of people.

The youth in Leadership Institute learned the following skills:
---Organizations skills in creating an agenda and carrying out a workshop
---Ability to work together as a group on a project
---Self reflection and sensitively to co-workers on a project
---Increased ability to deal with conflict as it arose in the group process

Resources

Accomplishments

April 23, 2008 - “Youth Creating Solutions about Violence”..  A Living Room Dialogue to adults
» view report

May 20, 2008 - Worked with a student from Marymount Manhattan College in preparing a video about the Leadership Institute
» view video + feedback

June 26, 2008   Focus Group on Images and how they affect girls and women for UNICEF with  Cathryn Magno, a professor at Southern Connecticut University
» view report

July 15, 2008 - Workshop with youth from Little Sisters of the Assumption Program
» view lesson plan    » view report

August 13, 2008 - Prepared and had surprise baby shower for Youth Coordinator 

August 14, 2008 - Workshop at All Saints Parish House for neighborhood youth in Central Harlem
» view report

September 7, 2008 - Dinner out to evaluate and to celebrate

Affiliates of Confronting Concerns Program

2008 CONFRONTING CONCERNS OVERIVEW
LESSON PLANS: 1 Introduction | 2 Facilitating | 3 Excercises | 4 Outreach | 5 Workshopping
RESULTS: Session #1 | Session #2 | Session #3 | Session #5
ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Living Room Dialogue | Video + Feedback | UNICEF Focus Group | Little Sisters of the Asumption Workshop | Little Sisters of the Assumption Report | All Saints Parish House Workshop - Harlem

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