***UPDATE 6/15/20: The All Youth Connecting Forum will begin June 22nd at 1pm EST/10am PST. All attendees should have received instructions for logging into the Whova platform. Please log-in BEFORE the conference to ensure that you have access. Instructions for the logging into the platform are below. Contact rashaun.bennett@nyec.org or 919-309-6233 if you have trouble logging in. ***

Detailed Step-by-Step Instructions

Desktop Version:

1. Using Chrome or Firefox go to: https://whova.com/portal/webapp/aycrc_202006/

2. Click “Sign Up Here” and enter the email address you used for event registration (your email MUST match what you used in Eventbrite)

3.Create password

4. Receive a verify email in your inbox. Check your spam inbox as well!

5. Create a profile

6. Congrats you’re in!

Mobile App Version:

1. Download “Whova” in Google Play/App Store

2. Click "Sign Up/Sign In" and enter the email address you used for event registration (your email MUST match what you used in Eventbrite)

3. Create password

4. Receive a verify email in your inbox. Check your spam inbox as well!

5. Create a profile

6. Congrats you’re in!

Help! I still can’t get in at all:

1. Download “Whova” in Google Play/App Store

2. Click "Sign Up/Sign In" and enter your email and make a profile

3. Receive a verify email in your inbox. Check your spam inbox as well!

4. Create a password and fill in your profile (you can edit your photo later so skip ahead)

5. Click “Request approval” and wait to receive your approval email.

Welcome to All Youth Connecting: Reengagement, Careers, and Community! For the third year the National Youth Employment Coalition (NYEC), the National League of Cities Reengagement Network (NLC), and local partners are partnering to bring you a premiere convening for policy leaders and practitioners in the fields of youth employment, alternative education, and young adult development. A complement to the annual Opportunity Week, the national co-sponsors are collaborating with local hosts including the Nashville Career Advancement Center. The primary objectives are to:

• Provide leading-edge professional development and program quality development for leaders and front-line staff
• Promote coordination among different networks and groups across the youth employment and education field
• Discuss and inform relevant state and federal policy agenda(s)
• Strengthen supports and services for key populations especially in southern states

Themes of All Youth Connecting: 

• Summer Youth Employment 
• Employer Engagment 
• Youth and the Green Economy
• Youth Leadership
• Reengagement Strategies 
• NEW! The Post COVID-19 Economy 

WHY ATTEND?

Connections: For the third year, NYEC and NLC are partnering to bring together together practitioners and leaders from across the country to share ideas and insights. In a virtual space, we offer networking and other fun opportunities for connection, such as virtual coffee hours and interactive sessions. 

Programming: Each day will offer breakout sessions with the same tone you know from other NYEC convenings, emphasizing dialogue, peer learning, and problem solving. Sessions will still by dynamic and engaging and we have streamlined the convening schedule to allow participants throughout the country to participate. 

Underserved Populations: Sessions will focus on how communities can best respond and recover from COVID-19, gang-involved youth, youth with disabilities and undocumented youth among others. Do you have thoughts an what our post-COVID economy and workforce looks like? Then register today!

Whova Virtual Platform: Attendees will be able to download the secure and free app after they register for the conference. Whova has push notifications to allow attendees to be reminded of sessions and keep up-to-date with the Forum. There will be ample networking opportunites with the ability to digitally exchange business cards. Finally, engagment will be done via interacting with session presenters, live-polling and gamifciation. 

REGISTRATION 

Please register at your earliest convience. Our registration cost has been reduced to $100. Youth leaders and current program participants registration is $25. For those in need of accommodations or with limited financial resources, contact rashaun.bennett@nyec.org.

For those of you who have already registered, we will be in contact about switching your registration to our virtual convening. 

AGENDA

Last year's NYEC mid-year convening was in Oakland, California. Find our agenda here for a sense of what to expect at this year's Forum. The link to all of our conference and session materials can be found here. We will release this year's convening agenda in the coming weeks. 

SESSION PROPOSALS

This convening will heavily emphasize discussion and peer learning, which will take place in the form of sessionsover four days. If you would like to propose a session, please complete the Google Form here, we are still taking proposals and will review them on rolling basis. We will contact individual proposers by end of May to confirm sessions. Youth leaders are especially encouraged to propose sessions! 

SPONSORSHIP

If your organization would like to become a sponsor of the Forum, click here to learn about the benefits of sponsorship! Email Rashaun Bennett (rashaun.bennett@nyec.org) to sponsor or ask further questions. 

NYEC MEMBER DUES

To join NYEC or renew your NYEC membership for 2020, please visit NYEC's membership page. Contact Rashaun Bennett (rashaun.bennett@nyec.org) with any further questions.

REFUND POLICY

You may request a refund for the convening registration fee before June 15th; email rashaun.bennett@nyec.org. 

UNABLE TO USE A CREDIT CARD?

Please register via this portal using a credit card if you can. If you are unable to pay by credit card, email Rashaun Bennett (rashaun.bennett@nyec.org) for an invoice or for other help with registering.