Starting and Sustaining Equity and Antiracism Work

Your Course Description

Your Competency Focus Area

Intercultural Engagement

Navigate the essential work of equity and antiracism in youth development within the diverse U.S. population. Overcome challenges in personal and systemic change, recognizing potential resistance.
Learn to identify and address personal barriers to avoid reinforcing problematic narratives. Gain insights on where to start, sustain efforts, and pivot when facing resistance.
Discover the power of small actions, practicing intercultural reflection and dialogue to navigate discomfort for real change. This training equips you for profound personal equity work, influencing change, and sustaining your journey with broader impact.

Your Learning Objectives

Identify and address personal barriers to engaging in equity and antiracism work
Explore access points to jump-starting or sustaining equity work in your personal and professional life
Learn to create conditions that support intercultural reflection and dialogue that promotes more equitable experiences

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

Wendy Lorenz-Walraven, LICSW, LSSW is a Clinical Social Worker and the Director of Equity and Diversity at Minnesota Transitions Charter School. She has 20 years of experience serving youth in educational and artistic settings and offers training on Trauma Responsiveness, Restorative Practice, and Culturally Proficient School Systems. She believes that with deep self-knowledge we hold the capacity to create space for the spectrum of difference. She meets all people where they are at with genuine curiosity and dedication to deepening connection and her own understanding. Breathing life into our whole selves creates space for the whole self of others. This is the space where stories can be shared, vulnerability is welcomed, and our potential for growth lies. Her hope is to offer some invitations and practical frameworks to guide your personal and professional journeys in order to create space for all of us.

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Your Skill-Building Objectives

Inclusion

Fostering belonging in all young people

Communication

Listening and speaking to deeply connect

Youth Development

Inspiring young people to thrive

Youth Empowerment

Providing developmentally appropriate support

What YIPA members are saying

This was a very well written and presented training. The thought and research that went into it is so apparent and appreciated.

Really loved the grounding in understanding how we create assumptions, how we can ask better questions, and using/building self-awareness.

There was so much information that will be helpful to the work that I do. I will be watching it again in order to glean more and more. A person could go deeper with any number of topics in this session.

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Intercultural Engagement

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Intercultural Engagement

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Your Skill-Building Objectives

Inclusion

Communication

Youth Development

Youth Empowerment

What YIPA members are saying

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