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Some details about our workshops and seminars are below. For further information,
please contact us at toll-free 1.877.339.4300. |
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| Mentor Training Series |
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This is a series of workshops designed to equip perspective mentors with the tools and skills needed to become an effective mentor. This series focuses on encouraging a better understanding of youth culture and trends to assist the adult mentor with developing a new relationship with the mentee. Series includes the following trainings: |
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Nuts and Bolts of Developing a Mentor Program (Program staff) |
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Effective Ways to Recruit and Retaining mentors (Program staff) |
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Reaching Youth Through Mentoring (Corporations and businesses) |
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Understanding Adolescent Culture (Training for mentors) |
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Great Mentors… (training for mentors) |
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Setting and an Effective Faith-based Mentoring Initiatives (churches and clergy only) |
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| Management & Organizational Development Services: |
| ULI offers a series of management & organizational development services designed to assist agencies effectively coordinate services as well as investigate strategic partnerships. These services include: |
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Strategic planning retreats |
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Facilitating planning processes (reach designated outcomes) |
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Organizing community groups to investigate ways to collaborate |
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Agency Effectiveness Assessments (S.W.O.T Analysis & External Environmental Scan) |
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| School-based Programs: |
| The school-based programs are designed to improve student behavior, academic success and socialization skills. Some of the topics of school-based workshops include: |
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Creating a Safe School Environment which are strategies to help schools create safe environments for effective teaching and learning. |
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Reaching the Unresponsive Student designed to meet the needs of school that strong with students that are not motivated to learn and that frequently cause disruption in classrooms. |
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Teaching Writing & Math Across the Curriculum are initiatives to prepare students for the technology and information age. |
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School-Wide Discipline Projects are efforts to make school discipline a collective issue. |
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Classroom Management Strategies to help teachers manage diversity and distractions in the classroom. |
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Educating African American Males provide specific tips to address the challenges of encouraging learning in African American males. |
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Reaching Unmotivated Parents provides school districts with tangible strategies to engage parents who are often non responsive and apathetic. |
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| Girls in the Hood: |
| An exciting Professional Development workshop that addresses the warning signs and behaviors of urban girls. This session provide professionals with solid strategies to engage and provide social and emotional instructional content for educators, youth counselors, clergy etc. (Special sessions can also be arranged for direct service workshops for girls ages 13-19. |
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| Girls in the Burbs: |
| An exciting Professional Development workshop that addresses the lifestyles, dress and attitudes of adolescent girls living in the suburbs. This session provides professionals with solid strategies to engage professionals who work with suburban girls. The workshop provides social and emotional activities and recruitment strategies for educators, youth counselors and clergy etc. |
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| Should Love Hurt: |
| A half day or full day Professional Development workshop that addresses the issue of "teen domestic violence." This session provides an overview of teen cultural norms related to music, attitudes and lifestyles which influence notions about relationships. Professional receive a tool box full of resources and solutions that can be implemented within a reasonable time frame; support group for boys that address the "male codes" and support group for girls that address the "World of Girls" and "What's a lady?" etc. Finally, the workshop provides strategies which promote alternatives behaviors for boys and girls related to solving conflicts within relations. |
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| What if the Prince Lives: |
| A half day or full day workshop that addresses HIV prevention among African American adolescent males. This session prepares professional (educators, counselors, outreach workers etc.) with the tools needed to address critical issues related to African American males and HIV prevention. The session addresses the following: notions of masculinity& defining manhood, myths and stereotypes related to sex and African American females, beliefs and values that focus on "safe sex", community value systems and sex and the media (Hip Hop as an influences). For more information please visit www.daretobeking.com. |
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| Diversity 101 & 102: |
| A half day workshop that explores the issue of cultural competency in the works place. The workshop address many of the stereotypes and biases which exists among professionals in the work place. Using case studies of real world situations that occur in the work place. Professionals are confronted with scenarios that address culture, religion and gender. This workshop is ideal for non-profits, corporations, colleges & universities. |
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| Achievement Among African American Male (Higher Education): |
| A half day or full day workshop that confronts issues related to achievement and retention of African American Males in Higher Education. The workshop provides tangible strategies to improve the graduation rates among African American males on campus. Also visit www.daretobeking.com for more information on products and services specifically designed to African American males. |
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| Fatherhood Series: |
| A series of workshops that address helping men cope with and adjust to fatherhood. Additionally, workshop are designed to help agencies working with fathers understand the challenges and obstacles of recruiting and retaining fathers of color. |
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| Raising Black Male Children Alone: |
| A one day workshop for single parents struggling to raise productive young men. Single parents receive a "tool box" full of resources and techniques to assist with the rearing of their "Black male" child. |
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| Positive Parenting: |
| Strategies designed to improve the parent-child relationship through a series of workshops. |
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| Manhood Development: |
| rites of passage initiatives to provide understanding of positive masculine behavior. |
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| Dispute Resolution: |
| For Adolescents and Adults provide conflict management skills to prevent the escalation to senseless violence. |
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| Entrepreneurial Development: |
| Training encourages business development and cooperative economics, teaches youth importance of business ownership. |
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| Violence Prevention Initiatives: |
| Strategies that provide alternatives for dealing with conflict. This session addresses issues related to gang violence, school violence and community conflicts. |
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| Understanding the Music: |
| "Hip Hop" as a Change Agent in Communities utilizes the music favored by youth to educate and empower for success. Provides youth service providers and educators with a greater understanding of the music and its implication for addressing the behaviors of youth. |
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| Dealing with ADHD and Other Behavioral Problems: |
| A half day workshop which provide solid techniques for parents to assist with child rearing. |
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| Angry and Adolescent: |
| A half day workshop which explores anger and adolescent development. Participants learn solid strategies to deal with angry teens and ways to help teens adjust. |
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