Monday, July 13 – Wednesday, July 15, 2009
 Doubletree Hotel Chicago Magnificent Mile 300 East Ohio Street
Chicago, Illinois, USA 60601
Tel: (312) 787-6100
Fax: (312) 787-6238
Note: July 9, 2009 Registration is now Closed.
The YouthBuild Transformation Institute is the Academy’s largest event. The Institutes bring together policy makers, funders, principals, directors, teachers, after school professional, counselors, and staff. Each Institute offers multi-day training courses drawn from the Academy’s quality, field-tested menu.
The Hotel Cut-Off Date has been extended until June 22, 2009. Please contact the Doubletree Hotel Chicago Magnificent Mile immediately to book your room: 800-445-8667 or 312-787-6100.
Location
Doubletree Hotel Chicago Magnificent Mile
300 E. Ohio Street
Chicago, Illinois 60611
Tel: (312)787-6100
Fax: 1-312-787-6238
Lodging Rates
Single Rate $199.00
Double Rate $199.00
Triple Rate $219.00
Quad Rate $239.00
- Guest room charges are subject to the current 15.40% Chicago hotel room tax (subject to change without notice).
- To make reservations, call the hotel 1-..., mention the group name “YouthBuild USA”
- CUT-OFF for discounted room rate is: June 22, 2009.
- Reservations made after June 22, 2009 will be subject to prevailing rates and accepted on a space available basis.
- A valid credit card or deposit will be required by the individual in order to guarantee his/her reservation.
- If an individual elects to send an advance deposit, a refundable cash deposit or credit card may be required at the time of registration in order to authorize incidental charges.
Keynote Speaker
Dorothy Stoneman, Founder and President, YouthBuild USA will address the audience on “Opening the Doors to Every Youth Knocking”
The Home Builders Institute will address the audience on “How to create a program to prepare students for life after YouthBuild!”
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Speaker bios
Dorothy Stoneman, Ph.D.
Dorothy Stoneman is founder and president of YouthBuild USA, the national intermediary and support center for 226 YouthBuild programs nationwide, and chairperson of the National YouthBuild Coalition of 1,000 member organizations.
In YouthBuild programs, low-income youth who left high school without a diploma build housing for homeless and low-income people while they earn their own GED or diploma in a supportive context that builds positive values through community service and leadership development. Since the YouthBuild Coalition succeeded in getting YouthBuild authorized and funded as a federal program in 1993, over 76,000 youth have rebuilt over 17,000 units of affordable housing in America’s poorest communities. One thousand organizations have applied to the government to bring YouthBuild to their communities.
Stoneman joined the Civil Rights Movement in 1964, became a public school teacher in 1965, and spent the next 24 years in East Harlem, New York, teaching and developing community-based schools, youth programs, housing projects, and grassroots coalitions designed to engage youth and their parents in community development and to increase public support for community-based programs. She was founder of the first YouthBuild program in 1978 and served as its director for ten years before orchestrating its replication nationwide. There are now 226 YouthBuild programs in 42 states, and enormous international interest in replicating this concept in developing nations, with partners already in motion in South Africa, Canada, Mexico, Central America, Scotland, and Israel.
Stoneman has a bachelor’s degree in History and Science from Harvard University, and master’s and doctoral degrees from Bank Street College of Education. She was awarded the prestigious Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2007, the John Gardner Annual Leadership Award from the Independent Sector in 2000, and a MacArthur (“genius”) Fellowship in 1996. She served as a founding board member of Youth Service America, founding co-chair of the Ford Foundation’s Leaders for a Changing World, and founding co-chair of the Campaign for Youth. In 2007 she served on the Task Force to End Poverty of the Center for American Progress and is a Trustee of America’s Promise: The Alliance for Youth. She is married to John Bell, vice president of training and leadership development at YouthBuild USA, lives in Massachusetts, and has two children and 13 godchildren.
Home Builders Institute
Home Builders Institute, the workforce development arm of the National Association of Home Builders, is dedicated to the advancement and enrichment of education and training programs serving the needs of the housing industry.
For more than 30 years, HBI has trained skilled workers in residential construction, promoted the industry as a career and helped the NAHB membership address its need for qualified employees. Its programs and services include:
Trades training
Job placement services
NAHB Student Chapters
School-to-career programs
Career exploration assistance and information
National standards-based instructional materials
Superintendent designation courses
The HBI Story
Home Builders Institute (HBI) was established in 1983 as the workforce development arm of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). The creation of this non-profit corporation was a result of the merger of NAHB’s Manpower Development and Training Division, Education Department and the Education Foundation.
In 1947, NAHB began its educational programming by holding seminars for its members. NAHB expanded its services to include residential construction training in 1967 when it was awarded its first contracts from the U.S. Departments of Labor and of Health, Education and Welfare. These early private/public industry partnerships allowed for the inauguration of NAHB’s new Manpower Development and Training Division, HBI’s precursor.
The years between 1970 and 1974 proved very fruitful to what would later be the foundation of HBI. In 1970 NAHB began Operation Transition, a training program for Vietnam veterans interested in pursuing careers in brick masonry. Four years later, HBI’s partnership with the U.S. Department of Labor and its Job Corps program began, training young people in the trades at the Woodstock Job Corps Center in Maryland.
Between 1979 and 1981 NAHB’s Manpower Division started the Native American Apprenticeship Program, a pilot program training Native Americans for employment in the building industry.
In 1994, HBI unveiled another trades training program through its Craft Skills department, now Workforce Training and Employment. Project CRAFT (Community Restitution Apprenticeship Focused Training) is a program targeted adjudicated youth uses a comprehensive education approach to assist troubled young people turn their lives around and gain sustainable employment in the building industry.
The United States Congress recognized Project CRAFT’s efforts “as a model among youth intervention programs…and strongly advocates the continued replication of the program.” (S.Rept.109-103) in July 2005.
For more than 40 years, HBI and its forerunner, the Manpower Development and Training Division of NAHB, trained skilled workers in residential construction, promoted the industry as a career and helped the membership address its need for qualified employees.
Today, HBI continues its dedication to the advancement and enrichment of craft education and training programs serving the needs of the residential construction industry.
Estimates from the Department of Labor (DOL) suggest that by 2010 over one million new jobs will be created to meet America’s construction demands. In response, DOL gave HBI a grant through the “President’s High Growth Job Training Initiative” to increase participation in trades training.
The grant aims to recruit 2,500 people into the residential construction industry by providing quality trades training and an Associate’s Degree or equivalent in the Applied Sciences. Home builders associations in ten different states are spearheading the program in partnership with local school boards, community colleges and workforce development boards.
While the total number of jobs in residential construction continues to grow, so too do the variety of jobs in the industry. In January 2006, HBI launched a career recruitment and awareness campaign for the 21st Century. Make it Happen uses posters, brochures and multimedia to inform students, parents and educators on the many careers in home building.
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Courses
Love Rules: How to Help Young People Develop Healthy Relationships
Love Rules is the course based on the YouthBuild USA “Developing Healthy Relationships Initiative,” a year-long grant from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, to build the capacity of YouthBuild programs to deliver healthy relationship skills to program youth ages 16-24 to help them form and sustain healthy intimate and co-parenting relationships while leveraging the existing components of the YouthBuild USA program that increase job opportunities, education, economic success and community investment. This course is based on the ground-breaking relationship research by Marline Pearson and her subsequent curriculum as facilitated by a YouthBuild graduate on staff, Joel Miranda. This course is designed for anyone on YouthBuild staff seeking a new curriculum to offer YouthBuild students at their program to make healthier relationship decisions for themselves and their children.
Note: This course does not appear on the registration form and is by invitation only.
Facilitators: Marline Pearson, independent consultant and relationship expert, and Joel Miranda, YouthBuild Just a Start graduate and current Program Manager
Managing Your Stress, Balancing Your Life: Personal Survival Strategies for Overworked Staff
Feeling overwhelmed? Too much to do? Too many emails? Work crowds out family time? Worries make you eat more, sleep less, and perform worse? Feel powerless about the economy and global climate change? Wondering how to balance your work and life? Welcome to the modern world! Helping ourselves and our students deal with stress is a key to success and sustainability. In fact, stress is a stimulus for growth--the body and the mind get stronger when confronted with measured exposure to stress. Our goal needs to be to increase our capacity to handle stress well. Participants in this popular interactive workshop will learn and practice seven interrelated methods of managing stress including: understanding the ABCs of stress; controlling emotions; mastering the mind; training the body; creating empowering habits; recovering for overstress; and creating a balanced individualized plan for using stress for success. Come to learn how to take better care of yourself in order to take better care of your young people, the program, and the wider world. We all need you to be in great shape for decades to come!
Facilitator, John Bell, Vice President for Leadership Development and the Academy for Transformation, YouthBuild USA
NCCER Construction Certification
YouthBuild programs can greatly benefit from the NCCER course. YouthBuild USA is the national sponsor that will maintain the structure of master trainers, certification workshops, and access to curricula. Once construction staff attend the NCCER course, they are eligible to in turn certify students at their program. YouthBuild USA will certify program sites (who by themselves are not eligible to become credentialing entities by themselves). YouthBuild programs are required to send official paperwork documenting students for certification.
As part of its accreditation process, NCCER has developed the Instructor Certification Program (ICTP). Through this process, NCCER certifies the Master Trainer. In turn, the Master Trainer certifies the local Craft/Technician Instructor. This network of certified instructors assures that NCCER training programs will meet the standards of instruction set by the industry.
It happens that our own David Burch, construction trainer from ISUS YouthBuild, is one of the few NCCER Master Trainers in the country. Construction managers and construction trainers who attend and complete this training will be certified as Craft Technician/Instructors, giving you the ability to certify your students in the NCCERA Contren® Construction, Maintenance, and Pipeline Curricula.
With a nationally recognized construction certificate in their hands, your students will have the upper edge in the construction industries.
Note: certification training is an allowable cost for HUD Youthbuild programs
Facilitator: Dave Burch, ISUS YouthBuild Dayton, OH and Master Trainer NCCER
Quantum Learning for Teachers
Quantum Learning for Teachers has been proven to increase student achievement as well as improve students’ attitudes about learning! It is an exciting and powerful teaching and learning methodology developed by Learning Forum, based on 20 years of brain research and adult learning theory. Quantum Learning for Teachers professional development training program trains educators in the “how to” of facilitating the learning process, covering both theory and implementation. Methods include the steps to build a strong foundation, a positive atmosphere of rapport and respect, and a supportive environment. Learn to practice methods that engage students including the home court advantage, the success model, the eight keys of excellence, living above the line, the use of music and movement in teaching, and how to juggle! Guaranteed to transform the way you think about teaching and to help increase your student’s learning capacities!
Facilitator: Tamara Thompson, Quantum learning certified teacher and Former YouthBuild teacher, Austin, TX
Retention Services: Future Building, Lifelong Learning, and Career Strategizing with Your Young People
YouthBuild doesn't end at graduation--we're here to help you reach the next stage in developing your young people's commitment to lifelong learning! This intensive hands-on workshop will show you different strategies, structures, and tools for creating high demand post secondary, first job, career placements for and with your youth that directly involve academic and employment partners and help get high outcomes! Grounded in community based experiential learning practices and employer feedback, these inspirational and practical approaches will take you from individual development plans to working placements, from conception and implementation to assessment and evaluation. Participants can take working models back to their programs and connect back to the instructors for follow-up and next steps.
Facilitators: Daryl Wright and Phoebe Reeves, YouthBuild USA
The Mental Toughness Experience
In this course, you will experience a demanding, rigorous, and caring immersion program utilizing physical, mental, and emotional challenges to facilitate the transition of youth from street culture to a program culture of accountability, possibility, and high expectations.
Respect for Life, Inc. specializes in training designed to produce human transformation in youth and adult populations lacking in personal, social, and academic development; who have been historically denied an opportunity to develop a mastery of life skills. The program represents a unique form of socio-cultural training that seeks to develop a positive philosophy of life. Group interaction, with expertise in the proper way of handling people, serves as the cornerstone of its success.
Impact initiatives for wayward youth have been seen as an age old remedy to address disciplinary oriented problems, common in deviant (criminal) or anti- social behavior. It is Respect for Life’s philosophy that this concept has great merit but has historically lacked the key elements and components necessary to create youth transformation. Most Impact-oriented programs for youth aged 14 – 21 focus on military training and compliance procedures as the cornerstone of their approach to turning youth around, instead of an approach that includes the procedure of military compliance; while rooting the crux of the training in self improvement and human development.
Respect for Life Educational Services has serviced more than 10,000 young adults with the Planet Self Mental Toughness training while having worked with more than 70,000 youth and adults in Respect for Life training programs throughout the United States and Great Britain. This training has proved to be the most successful in turning self destructive behavior into a non existent phenomenon in youth and adult populations, and it has consistently surpassed the desired outcomes for agencies whose clients have been deemed the most difficult to work with. Participants are held accountable at every turn while being tested, tried and motivated and encouraged the whole way. Respect for Life personnel carry a no – nonsense attitude, a zero level of tolerance for negativity, and an abundance of passion and commitment to human development.
Facilitators: Brother Lyle Grandison, Executive Director of Education and Youth Services; Al Johnson, Executive Director of Operations and Training, Respect for Life Educational Services, Inc., Miami, FL
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