Events
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• 1:00 - 2:30 PM ETThe Consumer Financial Protection Bureau officially announced the release of its newest Your Money, Your Goals booklet. “Want credit to work for you?” provides eight tools to help consumers through the various stages of building credit, maintaining good credit, and fixing errors on credit reports.
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• 2:00 - 3:00 PM ETOver the last 5 years, the Division of Youth Services (DYS) has provided a myriad of technical assistance. In this webinar, we will review those essential Technical Assistance (TA) resources to ensure the youth workforce development field knows what resources are available to assist them in delivering comprehensive services to youth.
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• 3:00 - 5:00 PM ETJoin Youth At-Risk of Homelessness grantees and stakeholders for a webinar April 17, 3:00 PM on lessons learned in working with youth who have been involved with the child welfare system.
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• 9:00 - 5:00 PM ETTeen Health Week is a global initiative to raise awareness of the unique health issues facing teens all over the world. Through a wide variety of local, state, national, and international programs and activities, Teen Health Week encourages teens to take charge of their physical and mental health to facilitate healthy habits they will carry with them throughout their lives.
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• 11:00 - 12:00 PM ETThis webinar is designed to increase awareness of the opioid crisis and its impact on adolescent populations. It will provide tools for health care and allied professionals to prevent, identify, and manage opioid misuse in adolescent patients. The consequences of opioid misuse in adolescents, current trends, and effective tools for medication management will be discussed.
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• 1:00 - 2:30 PM ETAccess to specific resources and partnerships and travel distance between mentors and mentees are just a few of the unique challenges that rural mentoring programs face.
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• 4:00 - 5:00 PM ETCommunity colleges must build relationships with employers to ensure that their education and training programs align with industry needs in order to equip adults with skills that lead to family-supporting jobs. Join this workshop to discover strategies that community colleges can use to build long-lasting and scalable partnerships across multiple employers within an industry sector for the benefit of the colleges, business community, and students.
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• 1:00 - 2:30 PM ETJoin MENTOR for a webinar on Group Mentoring! This webinar will focus on defining group mentoring by exploring several group mentoring models that have shown to be successful.
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• 3:00 - 4:30 PM ETThe road to Inclusive Career Pathways can be difficult for stakeholders and workforce professionals to navigate. The destination is achieving Employment and Economic Self-Sufficiency for people with disabilities. Getting there is the tricky part. To guide you on your route, the LEAD Center has created an online tool that contains the questions to ask, the actions to take and the resources and examples that will lead the way.
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• 2:00 - 3:30 PM ETThat’s Not Cool is an award-winning national public education initiative that uses engaging digital tools to promote healthy relationships and prevent teen dating abuse. Through an interactive website, learning tools, and mobile apps, That’s Not Cool provides a robust resource library for teens and adult allies alike, featuring culturally responsive prevention and intervention strategies, as well as youth-driven prevention programs.
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• 9:00 - 5:00 PM ETThe 9th annual National Mentoring Summit will take place January 30 - February 1, 2019 at the Renaissance Washington, D.C. Downtown
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• 1:00 - 2:00 PM ETThis second webinar about the Mentoring Enhancement Demonstration Program (MEDP) highlights the programmatic and youth outcomes that resulted from this project at 10 sites across the country.
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• 1:00 - 2:30 PM ETThis first Mentoring Enhancement Demonstration Program (MEDP) webinar focuses on how programs determined what to enhance and how they implemented these enhanced services.
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• 1:00 - 2:30 PM ETFor nearly 5 million youth between the ages of 16 and 24 who are not in school or employed, mentoring relationships are critical to helping them increase access, leverage opportunities and build the confidence and skills to pursue their education, career and life goals.
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• 11:00 - 8:00 PM ETJoin the Board on Children, Youth, and Families for an event honoring the 25th anniversary of the Board on November 14, 2018 at the National Academy of Sciences.
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• 9:00 - 12:00 PM ETNearly 200 Americans die from opioids every day. This number, based on federal data, illustrates one devastating aspect of the growing public health emergency affecting families, communities and states. What will it take to solve this crisis? And, is evidence driving the national response?
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• 9:00 - 5:00 PM ETThe National Dropout Prevention Network (NDPN), in partnership with The Educational Service Center of Central Ohio, Center for Science and Industry (COSI), Ohio Department of Education and the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, invites you to attend the 2018 National Dropout Prevention Conference: Constructing Possibilities: Blueprinting Whole Child Support, October 28-31, 2018.
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• 2:00 - 3:30 PM ETSubstance abuse, and in particular opioid misuse and addiction, is a national epidemic. Drug overdoses killed about 72,000 Americans last year, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
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• 9:00 - 5:00 PM ETThe 2018 conference will be held in beautiful Louisville, Kentucky, at the Galt House Hotel. All sessions will take place in the hotel. The main conference will be Thursday and Friday, October 11–12. Preconference workshops (Wednesday, October 10) will address topics such as Career Pathways Leadership Certification, Engaging Employers, and Apprenticeships.
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• 1:00 - 2:00 PM ETCLASP will host a webinar that will examine how states must expand their policies beyond the traditional postsecondary landscape to acknowledge the complexity of these students’ lives
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• 2:00 - 5:00 PM ETAmerican Youth Policy Forum is hosting a Twitter chat #Pathways2Success for Systems-Involved Youth.
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• 2:00 - 3:00 PM ETThe Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs will host a webinar on the ways that commonly-held beliefs about youth interfere with communicating about positive youth development.
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• 1:00 - 2:00 PM ETJoin the Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) National Mentoring Resource Center for a webinar that will focus on how to successfully promote your mentoring program to potential volunteers, mentees and families, as well as supporters such as funders and partners
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• 2:00 - 3:00 PM ETOffice of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), in collaboration with the Federal Trade Commission, will present “Financial Literacy for Teens.” This webinar will focus on teen financial independence. The webinar will examine the importance of a credit report and discuss how to order, review, and correct them.
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• 1:00 - 2:15 PM ETOffice of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), in collaboration with MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership, will present a webinar on “School-Integrated Mentoring.”
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• 12:30 - 2:30 PM ETMentor support is a critical element of any school-based mentoring program, but one that often doesn’t get the attention it needs. We all need time and space to reflect with the support and guidance of others, and mentors are no different!
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• 12:00 - 2:00 PM ETFor the month of September, MENTOR is partnering with the National Student Attendance, Engagement and Success Center to deliver a series of webinars to support practitioners interested in delivering school-based mentoring programs focused on attendance, such as the Success Mentors Program.
