Concepts and Actions in an Equitable Youth Work Practice

Your Course Description

Your Competency Focus Area

Intercultural Engagement

This training is designed to help you understand and apply the EDIABE framework. EDIABE stands for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion, Accessibility, Belonging, and Equity. It offers both a mindset and a set of actions you can take to build stronger, more inclusive communities within your youth programs.
Whether you are a youth worker or in a youth work leadership role, or supporting youth programs behind the scenes, you have a role to play in ensuring equitable youth work practice.
This interactive course blends YIPA-created learning content with recorded video learning created by the featured trainer.

Your Learning Objectives

Understand the core values of EDIABE and what is actionable vs conceptual relative to equity
Assess your current youth work practices through the lens of equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility and identify areas for growth
Create a personal or program-level Equity Action Plan incorporating measurable strategies aligned with the EDIABE model

Your Course Details

Interactive
Completion Certificate
Youth Worker Track
This training will count as 1 CE hour for most boards. Please contact your board directly with questions on submitting. Course details for CE submissions provided.

Your Trainer

Nastaaja Johnson is the Founder and Leader of Vivid Black Paint, a 501(c)(3), Minnesota-based arts-centered organization. Outside of her more newly realized talent of Graphic Recording, Staaj is skilled in program design and re-design, envisioning, strategic planning, and the prioritization of belonging in the leading and organizing of persons, groups and systems, which she refers to as Radical Belonging. Vivid Black Paint is a dedication to Nastaaja‘s love of Color, Art, Circus and the beauty in fortifying a capacity to try. Nastaaja hopes to continue growing Vivid Black Paint's network year over year.