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Creating Networking Opportunities Training The Paul A. Kaplan Center for Educational Drama - The Kaplan Center offers graduate level professional training opportunities in educational drama and theatre methodologies that focus on active approaches to student-centered learning. Classes are led by the senior artistic staff of the Creative Arts Team (CAT) as well as guest instructors who are international leaders in the field of arts in education. See their Spring 2007 couse schedule. Community Resource Exchange - For over 25 years CRE has worked towards a more just, equitable and livable city for ALL New Yorkers. CRE is a not-for-profit consulting group that provides strategic advice and technical services every year to over 350+ community-based organizations that fight poverty and HIV/AIDS. See their upcoming training schedule of free training for the afterschool field. Resources for Children with Special Needs, Inc. presents What’s Out There and How to Get It, 2006-2007 Free Training Series for families and professionals needing programs and services for children with disabilities. Trainings scheduled in every boro. RCSN also offers a searchable website, allowing users to find services in their area. Click here for more information. Community Healthcare Network's (CHN) Teens P.A.C.T. program embarked on a 16-month innovative media project produced by teens, for teens, about teens, targeting youth throughout New York City in an effort to reduce high rates of unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease. Utilizing a youth development approach, CHN engaged the diverse talents of Teen P.A.C.T.'s Peer Educators to complete every aspect of the project, including conducting street interviews and creating an original soundtrack. Peer Educators were trained extensively in comprehensive sexuality education, and theatre improvisation. This extraordinary group of young people developed realistic scenes through a series of improvisations culminating in four intense interactive shorts that re-enact real-life situations. Click here to view trailers, for more information about ordering, or to schedule screenings and workshops for your organization. Institute for Not-for-Profit Management (INM) at Columbia Business School provides management and leadership seminars. Seminars include The Executive Level and Middle Management Programs, Middle Management Program for Youth Service Organizations [spring session], Leadership Development Program, with scholarships available for those eligible. For more detailed program information, please visit our website. If you have any questions, please contact us. You may reach us by phone at (212) 854-6018, by fax at (212) 531-4743, or via e-mail. Ramapo for Children provides professional development and program support for educational and recreational programs serving at-risk children and those with special needs. Ramapo Training is currently offering our Fall Training Series Workshops. These workshops are a three hour introduction to our 6 hour courses which can be hosted at Ramapo Training or at any community based organization, school, or after school site. For more information about bringing Ramapo Training to your site or to register for Managing Difficult Behaviors or Supervising Inexperienced Staff, please email or call Sherry Goodman McGrath at 212-754-7003. American Museum of Natural History's Inside View: High School Internship Program is a career exploration and development program, offering internship placements to NYC high school students at the American Museum of Natural History. As an authentic work experience, Inside View introduces students to the necessary skills and expectations of the real job world. Creative and critical thinking activities bring them to a deeper understanding of their work in one department with a staff mentor as well as their group adventures behind the scenes, exploring this vast institution and its resources as a cohesive whole. Throughout, interns reflect on their own lives and thoughts for the future as they interact with Museum staff in a wide variety of careers. Inside View offers a summer and academic year option, offering placements in a variety of Museum departments representative of the Educational, Scientific and Operational branches. Available to NYC sophomores, juniors and seniors (rising 10th, 11th and 12th graders in the summer), Inside View offers a stipend awarded upon successful completion of the program, and summer interns receive a Metrocard. All interns have a Museum ID badge, which allows them into AMNH and all cultural institutions in NYC. Get Answers to Commonly Asked Questions, or Download an Application, or Call (212) 313-7105, or Email tfludd@amnh.org for further information. The Center for Educational Options is offering its Action Research Seminar for After School Providers - With support from the Robert Bowne Foundation, issues in Literacy and Learning. The year-long seminar and accompanying individual program support provide after school program staff with a forum and structure for investigating questions and issues of particular relevance to after school education. The process engages participants in developing and researching a question about literacy and learning that will support and improve programming and practice. Action research is a catalyst for: on-going staff development; developing instruction and curriculum; and assessing and developing programming. CUNY/York College Certificate Program for Child and Youth Workers - The Certificate Program for Child and Youth Workers is designed to offer youth workers a professional program of study that supports the growing needs of practitioners in out-of-school learning environments while earning college credits towards a degree. The Girls Project Annual Train-the-Trainer Workshop - For the past seven years The Institute for Labor and the Community has conducted a girl-centered empowerment program for 10-12 year old girls on Manhattan’s Lower East Side called The Girls Project. This after-school program was created to help prevent the well-documented crash in self-esteem, academic performance and body image that girls experience as they enter adolescence. Our curriculum is tailored to girls’ major concerns at this age. Lawyers Alliance for New York offers workshops on topics of concern to nonprofits and legal professionals who advise them. All workshops are led by experts in the areas of nonprofit law addressed. The following list describes workshops offered by Lawyers Alliance on a regular basis. To register for a scheduled workshop, print out, complete and return a Workshop Registration Form, or call (212) 219-1800. Technology and Career Development Institute for After-School Youth Providers Fall 2004 - The Literacy Assistance Center with the School to Work Alliance is offering a four-part professional development Institute linking technology and career development. This institute will introduce youth service workers to learning and instructional strategies that support career exploration and development. Through the four sessions we will look at ways to use and integrate technology, SCANS Skills, project-based learning, and youth development theory and offer information on free and readily available resources, such as Career Zone, the NY State Education Department’s Career Plan Portfolio and Workplace Essential Skills. YouthAction NYC Advocacy and Budget Peer Training - Learn to advocate for children in your community and New York City! YouthAction NYC members are available to teach other NYC youth how to advocate, understand the city budget process and work with elected officials to develop and implement solutions to public policy problems. Participants will learn how to use the publication Keeping Track of New York City’s Children to gather data and information to understand the needs of children youth and families and their communities and to support their advocacy goals. Trainings may be tailored to reflect the advocacy interests and abilities of the participating youth. To learn more about YouthAction NYC’s Peer Trainings and to have a team of Peer Trainers visit your organization, please contact Betsy Guttmacher at 212-673-1800 x20. To find out more visit the YouthAction NYC website. Panel Discussion on Young Women of Color, STDs & the Link to HIV. On Friday, May 9th, from 9:30 am – 2:00pm, the Young Women of Color HIV/AIDS Coalition (YWCHAC) along with CRE will be hosting a panel discussion on Young Women of Color, STDs & the Link to HIV. This panel will discuss what clinicians are seeing in adolescent health clinics, trends observed amongst young women, and what colleagues from the sector are doing to address the crisis. Additionally a CDC representative will discuss highlights from the report. After the discussion, CRE will facilitate break-out strategy sessions with the participants. To find out who will be on the panel or receive more information please click here. Volunteer with iMentor to make a difference in the lives of young people in New York City! iMentor provides a flexible and meaningful way to work with high school students from underserved communities in New York City. iMentor matches adult volunteers one-on-one with students based on shared career or personal interests. Mentors and mentees correspond weekly via email. Pairs also meet in person at iMentor-hosted events and collaborate online on projects designed to improve mentees’ reading, writing, research and technology skills. Find out more. Citizens' Committee for Children's YouthAction Community Leadership Course aims to transform conscious and committed youth into empowered community advocates through a 9-session regimen each semester. Experiential learning and exchange are pillars of the course. Each term students study issues of interest and immerse themselves within a focus community. This Fall our youth's exploration of adolescent heath and homelessness will take them to neighborhood health clinics, hospitals, and residential shelters. Our study of service delivery within East Harlem will include street polling, interviews with influential elected officials and community members, and visits to community daycare and education facilities. For more information, click here for information about the course, click here for membership activities, click here for peer advocacy trainings and workshops, or contact Ari Sussman, YouthAction Coordinator, at 212-673-1800 x20. The GoGirlGo! Ambssador Awards Program, sponsored by Gatorade and administered by the Women's Sports Foundation, honors individuals or teams that organize an event or actively participate in a community service project to get girls involved in sports or physical activity programs. Applicants must be female students who are legal U.S. residents and are 13 or older and in the 9th through 12th grades at the time of entry. All members of applicant teams must meet the above criteria. Download the program guidelines and application at Women's Sports Foundation. Metropolitan Museum - Join other high school students in a program of free classes devoted to understanding art and exploring the Metropolitan Museum. To register call (212) 650-2832 or send an email to: studentrs@metmuseum.org. A free Museum Pass for high school students is available upon request. Midwood Development Corporation - Regular Graffiti Removal and Beautification Program - Midwood Development Corporation, a 501 c 3 organization located in the Midwood Section of Brooklyn is currently seeking youth ages 13-18, who live or attend school in the Midwood section of Brooklyn, to join it’s Midwood Youth Council. Youth who are interested in the program perform volunteer projects, and go on educational trips. For more information or to volunteer please call Catherine Hughes at (718) 859-3011. The United Jewish Council of the East Side Tutorial Program meets every Wednesday evening, from 5:00 - 9:00 pm, to help children with homework and scholastic skills. Could your child (grades K - 12) benefit from FREE tutoring after school? Tutors are college graduates who have experience teaching academic subjects including Math, Science, English Language, and more. To register your child and for more information call 212-233-6037 ext. 301. Tiger Woods Foundation: Start Something The Fresh Air Fund - Since 1877, The Fresh Air Fund, a not-for-profit agency, has provided free summer vacations in the country to more than 1.7 million New York City children from disadvantaged communities. Each year, thousands of children visit volunteer host families in 13 states and Canada through the Friendly Town Program or attend Fresh Air Fund camps. Project Reach Youth (PRY) - Venture Catering LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Project Reach Youth, was one of the 20 finalists in the National Business Plan Competition for Nonprofit Organizations. The Yale School of Management, The Goldman Sachs Foundation, and The Pew Charitable Trusts have joined together to form The Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures. As its signature event, The Partnership runs the National Business Plan Competition for Nonprofit Organizations, open to nonprofits seeking to start or expand successful profit-making ventures with substantial cash prizes and technical assistance offered to the winners. Project Reach Youth was awarded $2000 for their placement, has provided catering services at Rockefeller Center and the Empire State Building, and their young chefs have received numerous culinary awards on the merit of their placement in the competition.
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