Building Inclusive Program Spaces for Indigenous Youth

Your Course Description

Your Competency Focus Area

Intercultural Engagement

As a youth worker, anything you can do to ensure your own program space is welcoming and safe for Indigenous youth will help reduce their risk for negative outcomes.
An inclusive space, representing Indigenous culture and inviting connection with traditions and community, contributes to a much-needed and vital sense of belonging. Develop confidence to create culturally inclusive programming and encourage supportive dialogue.
Learn how to draw on Indigenous tradition and culture to better support young people of various tribal connections in your program spaces.

Your Learning Objectives

Recognize the benefits of building and maintaining inclusive program spaces for Indigenous youth
Learn how to decrease risks Indigenous youth face by fostering cultural connections to strengthen their resilience
Explore options for learning opportunities about Indigenous culture and engagement with traditions and practices
Gain activities and tools you can include in your work with Indigenous youth

Your Course Details

Completion Certificate
Youth Worker Track
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

Anne LaFrinier-Ritchie, Anishinaabe, works as a Safe Harbor Regional Navigator for Someplace Safe in West Central Minnesota. Anne has been working in the anti-trafficking field in direct services and training and technical assistance since 2016. She is a 2020 graduate of NHTTAC's Human Trafficking Leadership Academy Class 5, which developed recommendations on how culture can be used as a protective factor against human trafficking among Indigenous youth. Anne consults federally on several projects and has created an Indigenous trafficking curriculum. Anne is an active member of the YWCA Cass Clay Racial Justice Committee and serves on the boards for the Indigenous Association of Fargo-Moorhead, YWCA Cass Clay, and Mending the Sacred Hoop, and is a member of Minnesota’s MMIR Office Advisory Committee. Anne also provides training and technical assistance on the state and federal levels on providing culturally responsive services to Indigenous youth and families.