Learning to Utilize Your Voice
Your Course Description
The Field of Youth Work
- As a youth worker, you may support young people experiencing discrimination or unequal treatment. Yet navigating rights, systems, and advocacy processes can feel unclear or intimidating, making it harder to speak up when it matters most.
- This training deepens your understanding of discrimination and key human and civil rights protections. Through examples from the Minnesota Human Rights Act, you’ll see how state-level protections work and be encouraged to explore the laws specific to your own state.
- You’ll learn practical strategies to advocate with clarity and compassionate accountability. You’ll build confidence to better utilize your voice as an empowered advocate for youth in moments that matter.
Your Learning Objectives
- Identify factors that contribute to discrimination, harassment, and retaliation, particularly as they impact marginalized communities
- Learn how federal and state human rights laws have developed, using the Minnesota Human Rights Act as an example to understand how state-level protections and reporting processes function
- Distinguish between human rights and civil rights and why the difference matters in youth advocacy
- Be empowered with strategies for utilizing your voice to advocate with clarity and compassionate accountability
Your Course Details
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Interactive
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Completion Certificate
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Youth Worker Track
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This training will count as 1.5 CE hours for most boards. Please contact your board directly with questions on submitting. Course details for CE submissions provided.
Your Trainer
TaShonda Williamson is the Executive Director of MyTurn, AntiDiscrimination Advocacy and a community advocate. She has 20+ years specializing in showing up for people in vulnerable situations in the medical, financial, and nonprofit fields. She has served on numerous boards, commissions, and task forces in Greater Minneapolis-St Paul, MN. She is currently pursuing a Masters Degree in Legal Research & Writing from Purdue University Global. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing at St Catherine's University; and she holds an Associates Degree in Surgical Biology, from Anthem University. Her academic achievements have granted her a lifetime membership into the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. Her personal motto is: “Take care of God’s business, and He will take care of yours.” 
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Your Skill-Building Objectives
Advocacy
Standing with and for young people
Ethical Practices
Understanding your purpose behind every action
Communication
Listening and speaking to deeply connect
Youth Empowerment
Providing developmentally appropriate support
What YIPA members are saying
Very informative!
Excellent training, thanks for connecting the dots together.
Amazing info to absorb.
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