Middle managers are put in the middle of a lot of different groups and situations that require political savvy and astuteness: knowing what to say and when and how to say it. The goal of this training is to teach critical navigation skills related to funding, politics, and institutions, so participants can continue to serve their youth and families. Participants will walk away with tools and strategies to help them analyze institutions including funders, policymakers, and school districts.

Attendees will gain knowledge and skills in the following areas:

• A greater understanding of personal core values;
• How power plays out internally and externally;
• A framework to debrief power.
  

About the facilitators:

Laney Cline (Juma Ventures)

Jonathan D'Souza (Juma Ventures)

Yas(min) Ahmed (Youth Worker Collective) has been working with young people since she herself was sixteen. The fact is, she's fairly confident she'll still be doing it when she's sixty. That vocation has taken her to the worlds of institutional philanthropy, community organizing, health education and policy advocacy; she has served as a trainer, convener and program manager within those capacities. She has a lot of bicoastal love in her heart, as she calls Oakland home and works with amazing organizations like Third Wave Foundation (www.thirdwavefoundation.org) in NYC.  Like a good little alumnus of Antioch College, Yas is passionate about gender justice and intersectional politics. When she's not causing a ruckus in queer and Arab communities, chances are she's holed up somewhere writing, playing records or watching a creature feature. Extra shiny: in 2006, she was selected as one of the real hot 100 (www.therealhot100.org), a national contest flipping the script on what "hotness" really means among progressive young leaders.

This training is facilitated by Youth Worker: Collective, funded by DCYF as part of the AFATAC Leadership Tracks.