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On-Site Trainings

The CalCenter can provide on-site trainings for your youth and adults on a wide range of topics. 

  • We can customize trainings for your group 

  • We can provide half or full-day workshops, or multiple day sessions 

  • We can train at your site or in partnership with other organizations 

The California Center for Civic Participation can customize any training to fit your needs. Fees depend on scope and location of training. See below for a sample of the training topics we can customize for you.

YOUTH ENGAGEMENT FUNDAMENTALS & PLANNING

Training sessions on these topics develop a deeper understanding of youth development principles, practices and common language.  This foundation can help your site create more numerous allies for youth engagement; a culture that understands and supports youth engagement; and a well-conceived and supported youth engagement element to your future work. Topics include:

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  • Youth Development Principles

  • Youth / Adult Partnerships

  • Youth Development Practices

  • Youth Engagement Models

  • Strategic Planning for Youth Engagement

YOUTH ENGAGEMENT PRACTICE

Sessions on these topics will provide details, resources and real-life anecdotes on specific dimensions of the practice of youth engagement.  We will work with you to draw upon communities’ experience and a deepening body of knowledge and expertise in this field nationwide. Topics include:

 

  • Getting Started

  • Recruitment & Retention

  • Sustaining & Growing Youth Engagement

  • Engaging Older Youth

  • Engaging Youth Over Time

YOUTH ENGAGEMENT MODELS & BEST PRACTICES

These sessions provide a deeper look at particular strategies, with the goal of preparing your site to shape and launch that particular form of youth engagement.  Sessions will incorporate youth and adults with actual experience establishing and sustaining that form of youth engagement, sample materials, training strategies, etc.

Topics include:

 

  • Research & Evaluation

  • Program Development

  • Governance & Decision Making

  • Youth Grant-Making

  • Youth Educators

  • Youth Businesses

  • Youth Advocacy & Systems Change

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LEADERSHIP &

SKILL-BUILDING

These sessions include workshops on traditional topics for youth leadership and skill-development. They can help shore up youth competencies in several key areas so they can grow and be effective participants in community work.  Topics include:

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  • Leadership Styles

  • Sources of Power

  • Public Speaking & Communications

  • Strategic Planning

  • Research

  • Advocacy

  • Team Building

  • Partnership Development

  • Event Planning

POLICY & PLANNING TRAINING

These sessions provide active workshops to support youth and their adult allies engaged in a single issue campaign, development project, or who are participating in a longer term policy or systems change initiative. The training features case studies of successful youth planning and advocacy. Topics include:

 

  • Research & Assessment

  • Outreach & Coalition Building

  • Strategic Planning

  • Political Change Strategies

  • How to Navigate a
    Political Landscape

  • Budget Processes

  • Power & Oppression

TECHniCAL ASSISTANCE CONSULTING

We are available for consulting in the form of site visits, conference calls, meeting facilitation and consultation around any of the above topic areas.

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