Facilitator: Hayley Krawitz, Outreach and Recruitment Coordinator, Colorado Young Leaders

Description: What is the reason behind why you do what you do in the field? Is it a spark of passion or purpose for you? Could you name the passion areas of your participants or staff and are they being snuffed out in programming or is fanned to grow bigger? In this session we will be discussing ways to identify and integrate your personal spark into your programming without losing focus of the goals as well as ways to help utilize your student's passions into your program to increase personal engagement.

Takeaways:

• Increasing student engagement, positive interaction, and student voice in your programming
• Help cultivate personal drive and passion in the field of youth development

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Session Style: Round table discussion & interactive workshop

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Recommended for: Direct service/site staff; Managers or site leads; Organization leadership; New to youth development; Experienced youth developers

DQUAC is dedicated to creating a safe and accessible space for everyone who participates in our trainings and events. We welcome persons of all abilities and will attempt to provide reasonable accommodations upon request. If you need a specific accommodation for this event, please contact Melanie Kartzmer, at Melanie_kartzmer@dpsk12.org or 720-423-1803 as soon as possible so we can make arrangements.

DQUAC No-Show Policy:

We truly value our facilitators’ time, and we always want to make sure that we can give them an accurate count of registrations in advance of the training, as it impacts material preparation and facilitation styles.

We expect all registered participants to attend the training. If you are unable to attend, we ask that you cancel your registration through Eventbrite or notify us at least 24 hours in advance.

If you do not show up to three trainings that you registered for, the DQUAC Leadership Team reserves the right to revoke your privileges to attend DQUAC trainings and may reach out to the leadership of your organization if a pattern of no-shows occurs.