Youth Programs Summit
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011
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You are invited to participate in the Youth Programs Summit, a networking and learning opportunity for adults who work with youth during the hours outside of the school day. Every registration includes workshops, lunch, resources, and a Youth Programs Summit logo canvas tote bag. Please register by September 16, 2011.
Agenda:
9:30-10AM Registration & Refreshments
10AM-11AM Session 1: (choose one)
- Good Drugs Gone Bad
Lisa Hodge, Drug-Free Communities Grant Director - Science & Inquiry in Any Out of School Program
Monica Lobenstein, 4-H Youth Development Agent, Jackson County UWEX
Randall Boen, 4-H Outreach AmeriCorps Member, Jackson County UWEX
11AM-Noon Session 2: (choose one)
- Multicultural Awareness Education for Young People: Teaching Strategies for Educational Professionals
Annie Lisowski, 4-H Youth Development Agent, Buffalo County UWEX - Our Youth’s Brain and Healthy Decisions-Just the Tip of the Iceberg
Julie Meyers, NP, Program Director, Western Dairyland Women’s Health Center
Noon-12:45PM Lunch & Networking
12:45-1:45PM Collaborative Session
1:45-2PM Evaluation & Closing
Registration scholarships available.
Use the registration form linked below to access a scholarship.
Register Today!
Session Descriptions:
Good Drugs Gone Bad
Lisa Hodge, Drug-Free Communities Grant Director, Together for Jackson County Kids
When people speak of drug abuse, one immediately thinks of drugs such as marijuana and cocaine. However, people rarely think of the common drugs found in their homes and medicine cabinets. These pharmaceuticals typically are used for medicinal or “good” purposes; however we are starting to see an alarming trend of abuse of this medicine. According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, nearly 7 million Americans abuse prescription drugs. That’s more than the total number abusing cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and other drugs – and the number has increased 80% in the past 6 years.
This session of Good Drugs Gone Bad will discuss monitoring, securing, and disposing of prescription drugs properly. It will also raise awareness of how teens and others are getting these drugs and what they are doing with them.
Science & Inquiry in Any Out of School Program
Monica Lobenstein, 4-H Youth Development Agent, Jackson County UWEX
Randall Boen, 4-H Outreach AmeriCorps Member, Jackson County UWEX
Help your students get more from afterschool activities! Gain new ways to incorporate hands-on STEM learning into afterschool project areas like service learning, cultural arts, and communication arts, plus discover how to become more versed in teaching inquiry-based science. Also, explore loads of free resources available to help you increase youth interest in STEM through other projects and enhance those projects in your programs.
Multicultural Awareness Education for Young People: Teaching Strategies for Educational Professionals
Annie Lisowski, 4-H Youth Development Agent, Buffalo County UWEX
Educational professionals are uniquely positioned to address multicultural awareness issues with young people no matter the racial or ethnic composition of their communities. Educational professionals who engage youth in asset-building activities and service-learning experiences, which allow youth to explore diversity while fostering empathy for others, will be most successful in developing responsible citizens capable of navigating our diverse world. In this dynamic workshop, participants will develop a better understanding of the multicultural process of change and the concept of multiculturalism, including the dimensions of diversity, which will aid them in developing and teaching multicultural awareness programming for young people. In addition, participants will have the opportunity to practice leading experiential teaching methods in multicultural education and gain practical techniques for integrating multicultural awareness into existing Extension programming that focuses on youth development including current service-learning initiatives and camps. The workshop will also feature key strategies for teaching young people about whiteness, power and privilege, and establishing need for multicultural awareness programming, especially in rural areas. Ultimately, participants will leave this engaging, interactive workshop equipped with hands-on tools, lessons, research and resources to start or strengthen multicultural awareness programming in their own communities.
Our Youth’s Brain and Healthy Decisions-Just the Tip of the Iceberg
Julie Meyers, NP, Program Director, Western Dairyland Women’s Health Center
Join Julie in a discussion of engaging techniques to motivate healthy living and healthy decision making with our youth. Julie will also discuss the youth’s brain and ideas to impact healthy living and learning.
Jackson County Out of School Discussion: Programs, Partnerships, and Promotion
Facilitated by: Monica Lobenstein
Jackson County’s out of school youth programs all have the same fundamental goal – to provide safe, welcoming youth development programs. We all go about achieving this goal – in combination with varying visions and missions – in different ways. As an adult who works with a youth program in our community, have you ever thought about how:
- Our visions and missions could complement one another?
- We could work together in key areas to benefit all of our youth programs?
- We could collaborate in areas of overlap to benefit all of the families of Jackson County?
We’ll discuss these questions and more, in the hope that we can discover new ways to support one another, stretch our valuable resources, and expand the ways we benefit Jackson County youth.
Click for directions to Skyline Golf Course & Restaurant. Questions?
Please contact Monica Lobenstein, monica.lobenstein@ces.uwex.edu, 715-284-4257 x502.
The Youth Programs Summit is sponsored by Jackson County UWEX and Together for Jackson County Kids with support from a grant through the MetLife Foundation and National 4-H Council.
