Intercultural Engagement
Quick Takes Blog
Honoring Black History Month Through Poetry and Hope
Black History Month is a meaningful time for youth workers to create space for learning, reflection, and conversation. It offers an opportunity to celebrate Black voices while helping young people...
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Expanding Your Cognitive Empathy
Your ability to understand young people needs to be one of your greatest strengths as a youth worker. This supplemental micro course challenges you to elevate that strength by expanding...
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Quick Takes Blog
Helping Young People Navigate Immigration Uncertainty
Immigration enforcement actions impact people of all ages, but young people often experience it in especially confusing and emotional ways. They may notice classmates missing, hear fragments of adult conversations,...
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Quick Takes Blog
Restorative Justice Rooted in Indigenous Wisdom
Restorative Justice isn’t just an approach; it’s a way of healing that has guided communities for generations. Rooted in Indigenous beliefs about balance, respect, and belonging, it reminds us that...
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Co-create Inclusive Group Agreements
When young people work together, they bring unique perspectives shaped by their cultures, families, and experiences. These differences can enrich the group, but they can also create misunderstandings without shared...
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Quick Takes Blog
Microaggressions Aren’t Small Things
What if something you said in passing stuck with a young person for years? Many of us in youth work enter the field because we care deeply about young people’s...
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Blended Interactive Course
Understanding Transphobic Microaggressions and How to Avoid Them
Transgender youth face disproportionately high rates of mental health challenges, in part because of the constant burden of microaggressions, misgendering, and environments that fail to affirm who they are. These...
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Quick Takes Blog
Moving Beyond the Basics During Hispanic Heritage Month
Every fall, programs across the country mark Hispanic Heritage Month with decorations, food, or a cultural performance. Those things aren’t bad, but they often only scratch the surface. For Latino...
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Interview Style Course
The Benefits of Identity-Affirming Spaces for All Youth
Too many young people grow up without spaces where they feel truly seen and accepted and it can shape the rest of their lives.
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Engaging and Effective Intercultural Awareness Training
Youth work is social justice work. Equity is a moral imperative and it is critical that youth workers have ongoing intercultural awareness training. Understanding the significance of diversity, equity, and inclusion matters in your work. ... Read more