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AFATAC Learning Circles - Telling Your StoryThursday, May 20, 2010 from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM (PT)San Francisco, CA |
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Storytelling is a crucial skill set that helps an audience understand what you do and why you do it. The goal of this training is to refine public speaking techniques and understand story structure. Participants will walk with a story all about them and their program as welltools to make sure your story is heard. Content Expert: TBA
About the facilitators:
Mai Doan, South of Market Community Action Network
Mai Doan works at the South of Market Community Action Network (SOMCAN). They focus on community issues, ranging from gentrification to tenant’s rights to immigration issues.
The program she developed and now runs is a youth organizing program. The goal of the program is to empower South of Market young people to be leaders in addressing community issues, specifically those resulting from gentrification. This program provides advocacy skills, youth leadership/development/empowerment and media and art skills, all through an anti-oppression and social justice framework.
As a youth organizer and program coordinator, she employs many skills—program development, coalition building, time management, outreach and networking, group management, technology, youth development and asset-building, budgeting and developing behavior guidance systems. Along with these skill sets, she also must utilize “skills” that come from deeper places, such as listening, loving, being patient and compassionate. In spending a majority of my time with the youth and their larger community, she has learned that these acts and traits are crucial to doing social justice work in the South of Market.
Leya Copper, Boys Hope, Girls Hope
Leya Copper is a passionate, outspoken advocate for youth, education, justice and everything in between. She currently works and lives as a residential counselor at Boys Hope Girls Hope San Francisco Bay Area. Through this job, she works with ten teenage boys that we refer to as scholars. As a residential counselor, she is the liaison between the school, parents, other community based programs, and scholars. Though she is not a parent, she functions as one, to ensure that our scholars can use their full potential to become academically successful, healthy, productive young adults.
Tara Dorabji, Streetside Stories
Streetside Stories is a literacy arts nonprofit that has helped over 10,000 students to share their life stories, connect with the arts, and improve their literacy skills. Through the power of storytelling, Streetside Stories values and cultivates young people’s voices, fostering educational equity and building community, literacy and arts skills.
Streetside Stories uses theater, media arts and visual arts to help students write their own true stories. Streetside Stories builds literacy skills, integrates academic standards and ignites a passion for literacy in young people.
Streetside’s workshops run in-school, after school and at community sites in Northern California. We serve over 45 sites, primarily in San Francisco and Oakland. Streetside provides training to educators in using theater and digital media to teach Language Arts Standards as well. For more information on bringing Streetside to your site contact: tara@streetside.org. Streetside has monthly free open houses, check out our calendar and schedule a visit: http://www.streetside.org/events/index.htm. You can check out Streetside on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/streetsidestoriessf.
Jason Wyman, Youth Worker Collective
Jason Wyman has been in the field of youth development for over 15 years. He started by supporting a youth philanthropy program in Minneapolis Unified School District and worked his way up to become the Educational Program Director at the OMI/Excelsior Beacon Center where he brought school, youth, and community together to address the academic, civic, and mental health needs of the student population. From there he launched into supporting the next generation of youth workers by creating trainings, resources, and networking opportunities through Beacon Academy, the Afterschool Corps, and the Youth Worker: Collective. He worked as the Director of School-Community Relations at Excelsior Middle School and directed the Change! Program, the community engagement program at EMS. Jason has been involved with the Youth Worker: Collective since 2003, and he is excited to be the first staff of the Youth Worker: Collective. When he is not advocating for youth and families, Jason enjoys cooking, reading, and hanging out with his husband.
This training is facilitated by Youth Worker: Collective, funded by DCYF as part of the AFATAC Leadership Tracks.
When & Where
African American Art and Culture Complex
762 Fulton Street
San Francisco,
CA
Thursday, May 20, 2010 from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM (PT)
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The Afterschool for All Technical Assistance Collaborative is a collective effort by Youth Worker: Collective, Be the Change Consulting, and Playworks to offer high quality professional development to the after-school field.