It takes a comprehensive, complementary, and well-coordinated range of programs and services to ensure every child has what they need to learn, grow, and thrive. This workshop is designed for leaders at all levels within schools, school districts, and community-based organizations who are developing or managing partnerships between schools and community-based organizations
This monthly informal space for Executive Leaders of YDEKC Member organizations is an opportunity to connect with colleagues, troubleshoot challenges, share joy, and gain inspiration from others in leadership roles at youth-serving organizations.
This spring, YDEKC hosted a Thriving Leaders Forum on Reimagining Pay Equity in Youth-serving Nonprofits. (Check out our Resource List to learn more.) Now it's time to dive deeper! To move from ideas to action, YDEKC is continuing our Thriving Leaders series this fall. For our November 16 workshop, we’ve invited a team from Sustainable Economies Law Center to share a case study on equitable compensation.
If we believe cross-sector partnerships are fundamental to achieving and sustaining student success, then what are we doing to develop and maintain lasting partnerships between schools and community-based organizations? In this session we will define sustainability and identify applicable practices within relationship building, strategic communication, documentation, partnership and program quality, and resource development.
This monthly informal space for Executive Leaders of YDEKC Member organizations is an opportunity to connect with colleagues, troubleshoot challenges, share joy, and gain inspiration from others in leadership roles at youth-serving organizations.
We are excited to announce our third round of Leadership Discussion Groups! This is a program exclusively for executive directors and leaders from YDEKC member organizations collectively focused on ensuring that Black, Indigenous, and youth of color thrive. Leadership Discussion Groups, launching in January 2023, will enable leaders in our network to build relationships with one another and share experiences and expertise related to key leadership topics. These groups will meet remotely once a month for informal discussions on topics of their choice facilitated by a rotating group member.
This monthly informal space for Executive Leaders of YDEKC Member organizations is an opportunity to connect with colleagues, troubleshoot challenges, share joy, and gain inspiration from others in leadership roles at youth-serving organizations.
When community-based organizations and schools are immersed in the work of serving youth and families, it can be difficult to find time to invest in relationships between the adults and organizations who are coordinating services. And yet, lack of communication and coordination can lead to challenges and conflict. In this interactive virtual workshop, we will explore ways to build a culture of open and effective communication within our partnerships, including giving and receiving feedback. Participants will become familiar with tools that support communication and equitable facilitation of meetings and identify Feedback Touch Points to incorporate into their collaborative relationships.
This Member Meet-up is an informal opportunity to connect and deepen your relationships and collaborations within the youth development sector in King County. Leaders at all levels within our member organizations and partners are welcome to join us for networking and snacks. Let's meet up and be in community together!
This monthly informal space for Executive Leaders of YDEKC Member organizations is an opportunity to connect with colleagues, troubleshoot challenges, share joy, and gain inspiration from others in leadership roles at youth-serving organizations.
Best Starts for Kids School and Community Partnerships Cohort: Are you a community-based organization or school providing services to youth in King County? Are you interested in connecting and sharing best practices with colleagues who are engaged in school-community partnerships? This spring we are launching our fourth School-Community Partnerships Cohort. This professional development opportunity will bring together a cohort of community-based organization and school site coordinators to participate in a peer learning group focused on school-community partnerships, with training on strategies and tools from the School and Community Partnership Toolkit.
What does it look like to design a program – and a partnership – with outcomes in mind? This virtual workshop will support youth-serving programs to describe and refine their program plans using a logic model framework, including identifying inputs, outputs (program and/or partnership activities and participation), and short-term, medium-term, and long-term outcomes. We will invite you to consider how your partnership activities and outcomes influence program activities and outcomes. In this interactive session, we will offer time within the workshop for participants to learn from another person in the field or work collaboratively with partners attending the session together.
