Youth Voice: Youth-Driven Practices for Building Foundations for Thriving

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Join us for a critical workshop series, Youth Voice: Youth-Driven Practices for Building Foundation for Thriving, in partnership with Alliance for Girls member, MISSSEY.

How can we ensure that youth voices are heard and affirmed in our organizations and programs? How can we ensure mentors respect and have clear understandings of how to support girls and gender-expansive youth?

In this three-part workshop series led by MISSSEY staff, we’ll learn about youth voice and rights, and best practices for centering and recognizing youth expertise in their autonomy and choices. Through interactive activities, we’ll have space to model how to effectively shift power dynamics that positively impact youth, and thoughtfully consider how to create organizational culture that effectively supports youth and amplifies their voices.

Our powerful MISSSEY facilitators include:

Nefertari Sloan, Training and Prevention Coordinator
Tarchell Aaron, Culture Keeper

Specifically, we will:

Identify opportunities and strategies for uplifting youth voice
Strengthen best practices for youth engagement
Engage in role play to model effective communication skills, understand power dynamics, and build relationships with youth survivors of trauma
Identify common extractive and unsafe practices involving youth, based on MISSSEY's experience working with youth vulnerable to commercial sexual exploitation
Access technical assistance to support navigation and implementation of tools and practices

Virtual Workshop Series Schedule
Tuesday, October 12 10:00am - 12:00pm	Session 1
Tuesday, October 26 10:00am - 11:00am	Session 2
Tuesday, November 9 10:00am - 11:00am	Session 3

Co-Facilitators:

Sloan, MISSEY Nefertari Sloan

Training and Prevention Coordinator

MISSSEY

Nefertari Sloan is a nonbinary person of color who joined the team as Training and Prevention Coordinator in 2021 but has been facilitating conversations with youth about sexuality since 2016. Their primary inspirations are rooted in a passion for the continued empowerment of system-impacted communities through resistance to societal constructs. They have been an advocate in the LGBTQIA+ community since attending Temple University in 2013 where they minored in LGBT studies and have participated in many fields of youth advocacy from foster care to canvassing to lobbying on Capitol Hill. Committed to unpacking the influences of racism, sexism, and erotophobia, Sloan aims to make learning about youth exploitation above all things an authentic, consensual, and engaging experience. Their hobbies include offering hugs, giving compliments, and dancing in grocery aisles.

Tarchell Aaron, MISSSEY Tarchell Aaron
Culture Keeper

MISSSEY

Tarchell joined MISSSEY staff as a THRIVE intern and recently was promoted to join the staff as a Culture Keeper. Tarchell hopes to one day become a MISSSEY case manager. Tarchell is a former MISSSEY client and has come back to work along with her peers. Raised in Polk County, Florida, she moved to Oakland California when she was 12 years old. Her years in Oakland haven’t been easy but with faith, patience, and trusting herself and others she prevailed. She returns to MISSSEY with a strong work ethic, energized spiritual mindset, and ambitious drive to be a voice for her peers. As a former client, she recalls the uplifted energy, sisterhood, and inspiration to accept that change isn’t always bad. As a student in this work, she hopes to support her peers, gain a deeper understanding of youth development, and how to be a change leader in the conversation regarding CSEC. She is MISSSEY.

This workshop series is $50 for non-members. For members, the first ticket is free with a promo code and additional tickets are $35 each (30% discount). Email Miari at miari@alliance4girls.org for the members-only promo code. Not a member? Join us!

This series will be hosted on Zoom. If you have any accommodation needs, please let us know at least 48 hours prior to the workshop. We'll make every effort to provide them.

*“Girls” refers to gender expansive youth (cis girls, trans girls, non-binary youth, gender non-conforming youth, gender queer youth and any girl-identified youth).

Youth Voice: Youth-Driven Practices for Building Foundations for Thriving

Tuesday Oct 12 2021, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday Oct 26 2021, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Tuesday Nov 09 2021, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
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