Tuesday, July 27 - Thursday, July 29, 2010
Redondo Beach, CA
The YouthBuild Transformation Institute is YouthBuild USA’s annual event for all YouthBuild program staff and other colleagues in the youth development field. The Institute brings together policy makers, funders, principals, directors, teachers, after school professionals, counselors, construction trainers, and other staff. Each Institute offers multi-day training courses drawn from the Academy for Transformation’s quality, field-tested menu. This year’s topics include: healthy relationship development, relationship building through social media, leadership development, cultural competency, sustainability, mental toughness, stress reduction, and much more.
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Location
Crowne Plaza Redondo Beach and Marina Hotel
300 North Harbor Drive
Redondo Beach, CA 90277
Reservations: 1-800-368-9760
As of Thursday, July 1 our room block at the Crowne Plaza Redondo Beach has been depleted. There may be a few rooms still available, but at a higher rate. Alternative lodging is now available next door at the Best Western Sunrise - 400 North Harbor Drive, Redondo Beach, CA 90277 • Toll-Free: (800) 334-7384 Local: (310) 376-0746. Rate is $134 (Continental breakfast included in this rate). For Best Western Reservations, call 310-376-0746 and request the YOUTHBUILD rate. Availability is limited – book your room today!
Please do not book your hotel or flight until after you have registered for the event!
Cost
This event is open to all existing YouthBuild programs and there is no Registration Fee. There is, however, a $950.00 fee to attend the NCCER Construction Certification Course.
See full course descriptions, below.
Registration
7/1/2010: Registration for the Transformation Institute is now closed. Tracks are full to capacity. Any new
On-Site Registrations (or switches among tracks) are not guaranteed. We apologize for any inconvenience.
7/7/2010 - Registration for NCCER is now closed.
Plenary Speakers
Beatrice Sweet
Ms. Beatrice Sweet was raised in Los Angeles, CA. She is a 2000 YouthBuild graduate and an elected member of the National Alumni Council (NAC). YouthBuild changed and affected Bea’s life in a profound way. She is now a mentor and motivator for young people, a teacher of teachers and a person that is in constant transformation. Bea has developed, led and designed many courses for young people and staff, “How to Better Work With Young People, “Flippin the Script” and “Getting your Young People to Interact.” Ms. Sweet has trained and engaged over 100 young people at different events, connecting with them through highly interactive workshops. Bea Sweet is full of energy and excitement when it comes to facilitation and training, she loves the work but more importantly she loves the connection she gets from working with young people. At 35 years old, Bea has realized the importance of not only being able to recognize where change is needed, but taking action. Two words come to mind when thinking about Bea Sweet: Energy and Empowerment!
Frank Alvarez
Frank Alvarez is an alum of the 2003-2004 LA CAUSA YouthBuild program. After graduating from LA CAUSA with his high school diploma, Frank successfully completed Public Allies, an intensive 10 month social justice and nonprofit fellowship. Frank is a founding member of the Youth Justice Coalition, a nonprofit organization that addresses the educational and rehabilitation needs of incarcerated youth in Los Angeles County juvenile detention centers. He is also a member of the California YouthBuild Coalition executive committee serving as Chair of Youth & Alumni Engagement. He now works full-time with LA CAUSA YouthBuild as the Director of Mentoring Services. Frank brings over six years of experience in the fields of advocacy, youth development, civic engagement, grassroots community organizing, social capital development and nonprofit management.
Courses
Tuesday, July 27 - select one course
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.
Facilitators: Joel Miranda, YouthBuild Just a Start graduate and current Program Manager; Michelle Quinn-Davidson, Academy of Transformation Director at YouthBuild USA
How to Develop YouthBuild Relationships Through Social Media
For some people, social media is a casual activity. To others, it is a professional networking endeavor. For a YouthBuild program, it can be a powerful tool that is easily accessible and highly effective in building and nurturing valuable relationships.
In this 3-hour session, you will:
1. Learn about social media applications and how to use them
2. Hear from other YouthBuild organizations that are using social media in their programs
3. Identify promising practices and lessons learned when using social media
You will hear from a panel of YouthBuild grantees to see why they chose certain social media outlets and how they use them to develop relationships with communities, participants, donors, and staff. We will also review concepts such as: collaborative technology and communities of practice. A demonstration of the YouthBuild Community of Practice (CoP) will be provided. The YouthBuild CoP is a shared electronic space where grantees can share and review documents, exchange ideas, dialogue via questions and answers, receive training and much more!
Facilitators: Partners for Community Solutions
Sustainability Strategies – The Key to Growth & Expansion in these Economic Times
What is Sustainability and how do you build a Sustainable environment? This session will review and equip program leaders with the strategies and tools needed to assist them in sustaining their work post federal funding. The concept of Sustainability will be discussed and looked at in several key areas including: Strategic Planning; Fundraising in These Tough Economic Times; Collaborations and Partnerships that Promote Both Increased Funding and Quality In-Kind; and Accessing Capacity Building Funds.
Participants will map their current program services and identify potential sustainability partners. They will hear examples of best practices in sustainability, learn how to promote a culture of fund diversification within your organization and how to market your program to investors.
Facilitator: Barbara Duffy, Partners for Community Solutions
How to Deepen Leadership Development at your Program: a Clinic for YouthBuild Staff and Directors
Our research shows that Leadership Development (LD) is linked to stronger program outcomes, deeper youth development, and better graduate success in careers and post-secondary education. But LD can be hard to implement, hard to get staff to buy into, hard to sustain, hard to get students to believe in. Come to this LD “clinic” to share your challenges, learn ways to deepen your LD work, analyze your LD weaknesses, and make plans for improving your LD practice. Specific focus on policy committees, leadership competencies, and integrating LD throughout your program.
Facilitator: John Bell, Vice President for Leadership Development and the Academy for Transformation, YouthBuild USA
Cultural Competency: Working with Diversity and Not Against Difference
Have you ever had trouble talking about diversity or difference with other staff and/or youth in your program? Have you ever felt unsure of how to broach a conversation on cultural issues or felt too nervous to even begin such a conversation? Join this interactive workshop to demystify cultural competency and increase your ability to work on diversity issues within your YouthBuild program. Focusing on what we have control over – ourselves – participants will re-vision their identity and the multiple ways in which it can be viewed. We will discuss what diversity looks like and feels like in our programs and how to meet some of those challenges with newly attained skills. Through various exercises participants will learn from each other and gain confidence and tools in tackling these difficult topics. Although there will be many opportunities for laughter in this workshop, it is first and foremost a safe space for authentic conversation on race, privilege, and Isms.
Facilitator: Jamie Ramola, Associate Director, Academy for Transformation, YouthBuild USA
Wednesday & Thursday, July 28-29 - select one course
YouthBuild Build UPS
Building a common language about learning and program culture
Understanding the learning process
Innovation and practical teaching strategies that engage at-risk learners
Leadership of the student, teacher, and program
Delivery of program content, context and expectations
Unity
Progress
Standards of achievement
Tired of going to education trainings that do not address the issues that apply to your student population? This training is for the educators who have sat through endless trainings listening to suggestions and theory that do not apply to our student demographic. This training is for the educator who works with at-risk learners in a non-traditional academic program.
This interactive training focuses on understanding the process of learning for the at-risk learner. The training helps participants learn classroom and program strategies to motivate, engage and deliver academic content to at-risk learners in a non traditional academic program. Learn classroom strategies that address at-risk learner issues such as learned helplessness, learner readiness, lack of grade level academic skills, self- efficacy, disruptive behavior, and lack of academic and program engagement. Training content focuses on interactive cognitive teaching strategies that help participants understand and manipulate the learning process for their classrooms so that students can understand material, transfer knowledge, and learn to build independent academic skills that will ensure program and life success. Unique at-risk educator issues such as preventing burn out, balancing professional needs, and establishing personal and professional boundaries are also addressed. The strategies addressed are utilized in an interactive hands-on approach to allow participants to engage in the learning process and thoroughly explore solutions and strategies.
Facilitator: Tamara Thompson, Quantum learning certified teacher and Former YouthBuild teacher, Austin, TX
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
Pathway of the Leader (course for youth)
This track is designed for current YouthBuild students and alumni who are seeking a development opportunity to “TAKE THEIR LEADERSHIP” to the next level. Over the course of this two day track young leaders will be equipped with a “tool box” of new skills that will enhance their leadership abilities and enable them to strengthen their leadership in their lives, program, and community.
Facilitator: Bea Sweet, YouthBuild USA Consultant; Frank Alvarez, Director of Mentoring Services, LA CAUSA YouthBuild
Stress for Success: 8 Practices for Enhancing Your Performance in a Stressed-out World
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
Tuesday through Thursday, July 27-29
NCCER Construction Certification ($950 FEE TO ATTEND - 30 MAXIMUM)
The $950 fee covers NCCER instructor fee, course materials, post event support, and the Green Training Certification. Participants must attend all sessions in order to receive a certificate. Payment is due prior to the event, no later than Monday, July 19, 2010. Payment can be in the form of credit card or check. Checks should be made payable to “YouthBuild USA” and mailed to:
Attn: Sarah Tormey “July NCCER”
YouthBuild USA
58 Day Street
Somerville, MA 02144
YouthBuild programs can greatly benefit from the NCCER training and curriculum. YouthBuild USA is the national sponsor for YouthBuild programs that will maintain the structure of master trainers, certification workshops, and access to curricula. Once staff attend and pass the NCCER course, they are eligible to in turn certify students at their program. YouthBuild USA will register program sites as NCCER Training Units. YouthBuild programs are then eligible to use the NCCER Automated National Registry to document their 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.
Construction managers and trainers who attend and complete this training will be certified as Craft Instructors, giving you the ability to certify your students in the NCCER Contren® Construction Curricula.
With a nationally recognized construction certificate in their hands, your students will have an edge in the construction industry workplace.
Facilitators: Dave Burch, ISUS YouthBuild Dayton, OH and Master Trainer NCCER; Ted Roan, Project Manager, American Youthworks, and Master Trainer NCCER
Click here to register for the NCCER Construction Certification.
Thursday, July 29
NCCER Green Training Certification - “Your Role in the Green Environment”
(Off-site Computer Exam)
1:00-5:00 pm
Location TBD / Bus Transportation will be provided to this location.
“Your Role in the Green Environment” provides fundamental instruction in the green environment, green construction practices, and green building rating systems. This additional NCCER green certification is recommended (but not mandatory) for anyone taking the full NCCER Instructor Certification Training Program certification course. In addition, if you hold a valid NCCER certification from a previous ICTP course you are also encouraged to take the test for Green certification. Pre-requisite: Individuals taking the NCCER Green Exam must review the Study Guide “Your Role in the Green Environment” in advance of the test. To order it, go to NCCER Pearson E-Store. Note that participants in the NCCER Green Training Certification must contact NCCER Master Instructor David Burch in advance of the green exam to provide your social security number. Contact: David at DXBURCH@aol.com, or (330) 322-6946.
Please note: No admittance to either of the NCCER events without prior registration.
Air and Ground Travel - Do not book until you are registered
The 3-day YouthBuild Transformation Institute will be held Tuesday, July 27 – Thursday, July 29, 2010. Please do not book your return flight before 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, as facilitators will be presenting until 12:30 p.m. Thank you for your understanding.
From Los Angeles International (LAX)
Distance: 7 MI / 11.27 KM South to Redondo Beach hotel
Shuttle Charge: $15.00 USD (one-way)
Taxi Charge: $27.00 USD (one-way)
Time by Taxi: 20 minutes
Directions: Follow signs to Century Blvd; then Hwy 405 So. (signs will have you turn right on La Cienega; left onto highway). Exit at Inglewood. Turn right onto Ingelwood; drive south to 190th Street. Turn right. Cross Pacific Coast Hwy; turn left on Harbor Blvd.
From Long Beach Airport (LGB)
Distance: 18 MI / 28.97 KM North to Redondo Beach hotel
Taxi Charge: $45.00 USD (one-way)
Time by Taxi: 40 minutes
Directions: Highway 405 North to Crenshaw Exit. Turn left at light onto Crenshaw. Turn right onto 190th St. Follow into Redondo Beach, cross Pacific Coast Highway, and turn left at Harbor Drive. See hotel in about 1/2 mile on left. Garage is just after entrance.
From Burbank Airport (BUR)
Distance: 24 MI / 38.62 KM Northeast to Redondo Beach hotel
Taxi Charge: $42.00 USD (one-way)
Time by Taxi: 60 minutes
Directions: I-5 to Hwy 405 south. Follow directions from LAX.
Questions
Content: Jamie Ramola, Associate Director, Academy for Transformation, at jramola@youthbuild.org or Sarah Tormey, Academy Administrative Coordinator at stormey@youthbuild.org.
Logistics: Liz Reilly, Event Coordinator lreilly@youthbuild.org
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