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Trainings To Go

Trainings to Go are hour-long training plans that include a PowerPoint, handouts, and training guides. Click the trainings to get tips on how to customize professional development plans to fit different staff needs, training time frames, and training goals.

Community Asset Mapping 

Every community has something to offer. Between communities, though, the number, quality, capacity and availability of resources varies. In this session, we’ll take a look at how our program planning team can work together to create a community asset map to help make the most of our resources.

Developing an Elevator Speech

As each of us goes about our day, we never know who we will meet or what we will encounter. We may have conversations or run into situations that pop up that actually present opportunities for ourselves or our program. Whether a potential partner, funder or volunteer, it’s always best to have something prepared to share. Without a well-thought-out message, it may be hard to quickly describe all the wonderful aspects of our program, so today we’ll develop an elevator speech. 

Developing Program Champions

As we all work in our afterschool programs at our individual sites, it can, at times, seem a little isolating. We get bogged down in the day to day, and when that happens, we may lose sight of all the “good” going on in our program.  But rest assured, your hard work is not going unnoticed, and every day you have an impact on students, families and the community.  Those stakeholders are our program champions — supporting, promoting and advocating for our program because of the work that you do.

My Notebook

Strategic Partnerships

The Notebook is a useful way to jot down notes as you go through the various topics available on the You For Youth website. If you'd like to use the notebook, please sign in if you already have an account or register now to join the Y4Y community!

Glossary

Strategic Partnerships

In addition to networking, coordinating and cooperating, a relationship where partners learn from each other to enhance the capacity of each.
Identification of businesses, organizations, and individuals in the community in order to assess and mobilize resources that can help attain 21st CCLC program goals.
The degree to which your 21st CCLC program engages with its respective partners. This ranges from networking to coordinating to cooperating to collaborating and finally to integrating.
In addition to networking and coordinating, sharing resources such as materials, funding, space, or tools.
Partners who offer goods or services that have monetary value at no charge to your 21st CCLC program.
In addition to all other levels of engagement, partners completely merge operations, administrative structures and budgets. The constituent parts are no longer discernible.
A signed, documented agreement between parties which outlines identified roles and relationship structure, thereby formalizing the partnership. Every partnership should have an MOU, including vendors and school partners, that consists of these five sections: introduction, purpose, roles and responsibilities, oversight and terms of agreement and dated signature.
Exchanging information for mutual benefit.
Actions adopted by design to maintain healthy relationships with partners. This can include engaging them on your team, meeting and communicating regularly, sharing resources, and celebrating successes together.
Community organizations or entities your program is likely to encounter in a rural setting, and may include interest clubs, senior centers, Chamber of Commerce, local artisans or farmers, university extensions, churches, or school liaisons.
This mutually beneficial relationship usually involves close cooperation between partners with specific individual and joint rights and responsibilities. Each party brings different assets or expertise that will help the other.
A portion of an MOU which allows for the dissolution of a partnership by either party under agreed upon conditions.
What you will ask your partner to do with or for your program. This carefully designed proposal takes mutual interests, needs and resources into account.
Community organizations or entities your program is likely to encounter in an urban setting, and may include all levels of university programs, workforce development organizations, libraries, interest clubs, hospitals, retail centers, service clubs or organizations, and drug and alcohol councils.
Paid partners. Vendors can be approached for price breaks, expertise or even donations in exchange for positive publicity by your organization to elevate the partnership.