Schedule
8:30-8:40 am Welcome
8:40-9:30 am Keynote
Balancing Risk & Reality: Lineage and Legacy: Lessons Learned in Youth Protection
Carri Burgjohann, Director of Child Protection and Safety, YMCA of the USA
What is your lineage? Attendees will have an opportunity to jot down their path/lineage and identify if someone how it might inform the way we plan for and mitigate risk in youth programs.
What will be your legacy? Offer 3 key strategies for adapting and responding to the current era.
What do you want your legacy to be? Our lived experience and what we hope for inform what we do differently. Ask yourself "What changes after today?" It's not about prioritizing or trying to solve for whatever the change needs to be. It's about mapping the legacy into the future and becoming a part of someone else's lineage because you believed in and worked for a safe environment for youth.
9:35-10:20 am Session 1
I Didn’t Think About That! Planning for the Unexpected
Hannah Albrecht, Event Planner, ISU Conference Planning & Management
Learn about planning for the unexpected such as weather, health and safety, and other pieces that may arise when planning and executing youth programs. Participants will identify event pieces they were not considering when working with youth, understand how to mitigate risk while planning events for youth, recognize resources for executing events safely and effectively, and learn about the services CPM can provide to assist with youth events.
10:25-11:10 am Session 2
The Heart of the Lesson: Using Affective Learning to Empower Youth
Jo Ann Lee & Rhonda Evans, Parenting: It’s a Life program, ISU HDFS
This session will introduce participants to the Parenting: It’s a Life (PIAL) life skills curriculum as well as our teen dating violence awareness program, Advocating for My Relationships (ADMYRE). Attendees will get a “behind the scenes” look at how the PIAL program integrates youth voice and the methodology that has led to long-standing popular demand for bringing PIAL into schools and youth-serving agencies across Iowa.
11:15 am-12:00 pm Session 3
Situation Room- Real Scenarios, Real Solutions (roundtable discussions)
Brandy Cunningham & Heather Robinson, ISU Risk Management
Participants will break out into small groups to discuss real-life scenarios that might happen in youth programs and collaborate with one another to determine what steps they would take if faced with a similar situation.
12:05-12:30 pm Awards & Closing Remarks
Annual Youth Program Awards & Closing Remarks
Brandy Cunningham, Youth & Volunteer Programs Manager, ISU Risk Management
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