Boston Youth Workers' Training Wish List
Data Source: Boston Urban Leadership Initiative Survey, 2017. 50 Respondents, percentages of "Yes" or "Might Be" responses to "Please tell us what kinds of training you'd find helpful."
Data Source: Boston Urban Leadership Initiative Survey, 2017. 50 Respondents
Data Source: Boston Urban Leadership Initiative Survey, 2017. 50 Respondents
Data Source: Boston Urban Leadership Initiative Survey, 2017. 49 Respondents.
Data Source: Boston Urban Leadership Initiative Survey, 2017. 50 Respondents
OTHER TOPICS REQUESTED
1. BROADER Community Collaboration
- Networking
- Building connections with what churches and other ministries are already doing
- Church without walls - urban community ministry
- Connecting with other youth workers and learn from each others' successes and challenges
- Relating to neighborhood/community groups that spend time with young people
- Strategies for collaborating with fellow youth workers and organizations
- Mentors, Big Brothers who connect with youth
- Connecting families and youth together
- Collaborating with government and/or community organizations
2. Youth Worker Peer Fellowship
- Building connections with what churches and other ministries are already doing
- Connecting with other youth workers and learning from each other’s successes and challenges
- Strategies for collaborating with fellow youth workers and organizations
- Prayer for youth and youth ministers
3. Trauma Response & Youth in Crisis
- training in traumatized youth and their families
- grief
- homeless youth
- school dropouts
- navigating through tween and teenage years
4. Youth Engagement
- High school student behavior management strategies, tools, and best practices.
- Teaching to a variety of learners in one classroom; how to keep them all engaged; classroom management.
- Keeping youth motivated.
5. Special Topics
- Creating healthy boundaries with social media and technology and learning to discern the value and intent of information posted online.
- Training in ADHD and autism.
- Understanding the LGBT community.
- Apologetics and how current day religions (Black Hebrew Israelites, Mormonism, Islam) attack the Gospel and how to help youth stand firm.
- How finances can help or hinder serving and helping underserved youth.
- How to manage and organize your time and your workload to have a stress-free and smooth work life!