While high quality programs have a positive impact on youth, poor quality programs can actually do harm. Learn what goes on inside quality programs to intentionality influence positive outcomes.
Working with youth
This course is designed to engage participants in an in-depth look at Weikart’s Youth Program Quality pyramid and the research that supports the framework.
Based on the Minnesota 4-H Ambassador program, discover how to develop and grow a youth leadership program through youth voice and shared power so youth leaders thrive.
Discover the benefits of using teens as teachers and the essential elements needed to create an impactful learning environment for the teens, their younger peers and the adult liaison.
Explore best practices to unite youth leaders and their adult counterparts in shared leadership of events, committee work, and organizational operations.
In this series of stand-alone workshops, youth workers and young people learn how to address inequities at the programmatic, organizational and institutional levels.
Students 14 years and older learn about safe equipment operation and general farm safety.
The youth development webinar series provides research-based information on hot topics, trends and program ideas for youth workers over the lunch hour.
Youth workers address challenging situations in their daily work with young people. In this class, participants will dig into the sticky challenges and issues of youth work and examine various ways to respond to real-life problems in their program.
Exploring the research behind positive youth development can be critical to how we understand and work with youth. In this class you will learn skills and create resources to help you work with young people.