The TAKE ACTION! Network offers the following professional development opportunities for educators and youth workers: Professional Competencies:
- GREENing Your World - a series of workshops that help educators, youth workers and/or other service providers fuse GREEN programming into their everyday program activities and/or practices.
- Advancing Youth Development (AYD)/Building Exemplary Systems in Training (BEST) -a series of seminars that help adults working with youth build personal and professional competencies.
- Don't Give It Away! Facilitator Trainings - workshops that help adults working with girls use Iyanla Vanzant's book of the same title to lead adolescent girls on a journey of self-awareness and affirmation.
- I Am Not My Hair! Facilitator Trainings - a series of workshops that help adults working with girls of color use India Arie's song of the same title to challenge the way they think about their own stereotypes about hair and its impact on their self-image.
- Youth Speak/Youth Write Trainings - a series of workshops that help adults working with youth use writing as a tool to encourage youth development.
Personal Competencies:
ADULTS
- Life Lessons: Writing for a Purpose (Adult Men and Women) - a series of writing workshops that help individuals see the value of using writing as a tool for healing and release.
- Women Like You: African American Women and HIV/AIDS - a video discussion about the impact of HIV/AIDS on African American Women.
- God's Daughters - a Bible-based workshop designed to help women understand who they are in Christ.
Youth
- Don't Give It Away! - a workshop challenging teen girls to value their bodies and practice abstianance.
- I Am Not My Hair! - a workshop challenging girls of color to explore stereotypes about hair and skin color.
- Youth Speak/Youth Write Trainings - a workshop challenging youth to use writing as a tool for activism.
For pricing details, contact Lynn Pinder email lpinder@thetakeactionnetwork.com or call 1-800-929-1418.