This webinar helps youth workers, parents, guardians, grandparents, and mentors of youth to realize they don’t have to be a social media guru to help the youth they love navigate the new media landscape well. Dr. Gorrell will explain how youth are spending their time online (according to them!), the most important possibilities and pressing challenges of new media, and concrete things adults can teach youth (specific do’s and don’ts for their mental well-being and living out their faith as they engage with technology). There will be time for Q&A as well.
Events
Despite ongoing anti-racism efforts in our nation racism continues to flourish. If most Americans align with a faith or tradition that upholds values of justice and equity why are we still “here” in this static space? Join us for three sessions as we answer this question by journeying back to our roots: digging up the racism that is embedded in our existing anti-racism frameworks. Together we will explore decolonizing methods and inventory the historical seeds that continue to sprout as intended: to stunt our growth.
Session 1:
We will explore the ways in which racism is embedded in the anti-racism frameworks consistently in use today particularly in many faith communities. Digging deep into its presence in youth ministry we will uncover how past perceptions actively impact future progress.
Session 2:
We will have a discussion surrounding overarching education frameworks that combat racism particularly in faith-based contexts. Together we will explore how these anti-racism scaffolding examples can be applied in youth ministry settings.
Session 3:
We will investigate tangible tools resources and practices to guide participants as they strive to align their youth ministries with their hopeful anti-racism outcomes. Reviewing curation methods implementation of content and invitations to praxis our focus will be on the formation of a holistic ministry that considers all touchpoints for transformation.
The three sessions will occur on September 18, 25, and October 2.
**If you missed her initial lecture on this topic, you can watch the video and interview here.
Despite ongoing anti-racism efforts in our nation, racism continues to flourish. If most Americans align with a faith or tradition that upholds values of justice and equity, why are we still “here” in this static space?
Join us in this webinar as we answer this question by journeying back to our roots: digging up the racism that is embedded in our existing anti-racism frameworks. Together we will explore decolonizing methods, and inventory the historical seeds that continue to sprout as intended: to stunt our growth.
April 6, 2024
All Day Event
Join us for critical conversations about how the current mental health crisis is impacting youth and those serving in youth ministry. National mental health advocate and educator, Rev. Dr. Sarah Griffith Lund, author of Blessed Youth: Breaking the Silence about Mental Illness with Children and Teens, will engaged, guide and inspire us in our time together as we reflect on what we are experiencing in own contexts as relates to the mental health crisis, conversations about what the best brain science is saying about the role of spirituality and mental health, and equipping us to prioritize our own mental health while we also empower youth to be mental health advocates.
Participants will have time for small group conversations, learn about the risk factors for LGBTQ+ for suicide, strategies for suicide prevention, and a panel of experts will share resources inspiring and equipping participants to join the movement for mental health with hope for our collective healing. The panel of experts, includes Samuel Neil Byrd, Director, Office of LGBTQ Resources at Yale; Sanya Chiraroekmongkon, founder Rising Youth; and Frank Gregory, Solnit Superintendent, Behavioral Health Community Services, Department of Children & Families CT. Rev. Dr. Lund will be available for book signing and consultation conversations.
The first 25 registrants for the program will receive a free copy of Blessed Youth: Survival Guide, a small workbook of mental health resources that youth can easily use and carry with them.
Schedule, 9:00am – 3:00pm at Yale Divinity School
Registration
Words of Welcome
Keynote
Break
Small Group Conversations
Lunch Break (Lunch is provided)
Keynote
Panel with Mental Health Professionals
Break
Small Group Conversations
Closing Remarks
*Please note when registering, the system will ask you for a promo code, please skip this as a promo code is not needed.
**Current students and YDS staff can attend for free.
These are holy troublemaking times, and our youth want to grapple with life’s big questions. Catching courage and hope from the stories we tell of beloved saints—both conventional and unconventional—who have faced challenges and managed to stay rooted in joy, justice, and the beloved community is enormously helpful. Stories are how we and the young people in our lives imagine how things could be, and discover what it takes to make positive change.
Join author Daneen Akers and Christian educator Wendy Claire Barrie as they talk about progressive faith formation especially through the lens of the middle-grades anthology Holy Troublemakers & Unconventional Saints and its companion curriculum. Hear ideas for how the stories of people like Bayard Rustin, Wangari Maathai, Thich Nhat Hahn, Mr. Rogers, Valarie Kaur, Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg, Rev. Gafney, Rumi, and more can connect with adolescents. There will be time for break-out sessions and sample curriculum. Bring your questions!
In this interactive presentation and dialogue, we explore youth identity development from understanding the synergies between holding multiple identities, for example, Black, neurodivergent, LGBTQIA. Geared toward youth leaders, layperson, and youth ministers we develop approaches of how oppression, power, and privilege may operate across systems. The overall goal is to develop approaches of how to create safer spaces for youth in their relationships and community building efforts.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the relationship between oppression, power, and privilege
- Review key findings from State of Mental Health of Youth of Color – Aakoma Project
- Assess and understand developmental challenges of identity development in today’s social political climate
- Understand role of active listening and emotional intelligence skills