BYEN Winter Environmental Youth Employment (EYE) Professional Development Series
During the winter months BYEN provides complimentary trainings and round table discussions to explore new ways of doing things, build skills, sharing of best practices and reflection. This series brings adult and young adult experts from the network and beyond to learn about a variety of topics.
Updates to this listing will be made as trainers/contributors are confirmed!
Trainings information is below.
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Youth To Staff Tranisiton Training
When: Wed, February 16, 9:30am – 11:30am
Where: Boston After School & Beyond
89 South Street 1st Floor Community Room, Boston, MA 02111 ()
BYEN member organizations engage youth in meaningful, hands-on environmental learning experiences that many youth return to year after year. As a result, youth employees gain the skills, knowledge and motivation that qualify them to step into leadership/staff positions.
This training, provided by Kenneth Bailey and Lori Lobenstine from The Design Studio for Social Intervention(ds4si), is for youth environmental employment providers with an interest in creating environments that retain youth talent.
The training will be highly interactive and will cover:
Challenges in switching from youth to staff (for the youth switching, for other youth not switching and for adults who "knew them back when..."
Ways to acknowledge, celebrate and respect the transition Boundaries (especially with other youth) Building leadership from a new perspective
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Hiring The Right Staff
When: March 2nd 2011 9:30am-11am
Where: Boston After School & Beyond
89 South Street 1st Floor Community Room, Boston, MA 02111
Many network professionals are gearing to run environmental youth employment programs during the summer. An important part of this process is hiring adult and youth employees.
BYEN invites you to a round table informal, but structured, discussion about this topic.
Where will you find the right candidates to fill open positions? What kind of qualifications should you be looking for? Which are a must? Which can be learned?
Do you need new recruitment ideas and/or have any to share? Can we work together to keep professionals in the field? Is there a pool of qualified youth program participants/graduates out there? Are there other pools of candidates out there that have not been tapped?
There will be room in this discussion for some employer/candidate match making. Members are welcome to come with positions they are looking to fill and/or resumes of youth or adults they know are seeking employment.
Bring your questions, challenges, successful strategies, open positions, and ideas for feedback.
Join us for this dialogue that will take place on March 2nd at 9:30am-11am at 89 South Street, Boston, MA 02111 . You may RSVP by calling Helen Christou at (617) 345-5322 ext. 110 or by going to this link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YXMVFLF. Any questions may also be directed to Helen via telephone or email.