Showing posts with label DC Children and Youth Investment Trust Corporation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DC Children and Youth Investment Trust Corporation. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Opportunity Scholarship Program will start accepting apps October 18!
The D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) provides District residents K-12 scholarships to enroll their children in a DC private school. Scholarship awards are up to $12,572 for high school and $8,381 for elementary and middle schools. OSP will begin accepting applications at the following events:
Monday, July 7, 2014
Apply for the Youth Development Practitioner Scholarship!
The courses at UDC-CC will eventually lead to an eighteen credit Certificate in General Education (Out-of-School-Time), which builds staff capacity in youth-serving organizations. These classes will be offered over the course of three semesters and were selected based on the necessary skills to help youth reach positive knowledge, attitude, and behavioral outcomes.
The program is perfect for professionals in a variety of youth-serving fields and organizations, such as community-based organizations, government agencies, faith-based groups, community recreation and correctional professions, coaches and counselors.
If you are interested in applying for the scholarship, check out CYITC's website and download and complete the application online. There are a limited number of scholarships available. Participants will be notified of their application status by Friday, July 20th.
You can read more online.
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Friday, June 6, 2014
Free and affordable professional development opps in DC
The One City Youth website (onecityyouth.dc.gov/) provides links to valuable free and affordable professional development opportunities in the District.
To get to the page shown above, hover over the "Programs & Services" tab and you'll see "Professional Development."
The latest news in training is from the Trust's Center for Excellence in Youth Development. CEYD has changed the date of the first of two-part training Difficult Conversations, Difficult Conflicts: Transforming Hard Times into Opportunities for Growth. The first session is now being held June 12.
Want to get CEYD updates? Email ceyd@cyitc.org and ask to be added to the list.
Stay tuned for additional professional development opportunities.
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
My Brother's Keeper has got traction in DC
BREAKING- Opportunity for All: #MyBrothersKeeper Blueprint for Action http://t.co/aRTrxPjpX3 @whitehouse pic.twitter.com/c3zExKOBYP
— White House Af-Am Ed (@AfAmEducation) June 1, 2014My Brother's Keeper was launched by President Obama to determine what works to help young people stay on track to reach their full potential.
The District of Columbia is already moving some of the recommendations made by the My Brother's Keeper Task Force: getting a healthy start and entering school ready to learn and graduating from high school ready for college and career. And then there are the One City Youth goals:
- Workforce Development: Young people will gain meaningful work and career exposure, experience, and skills.
- Educational Achievement: Children and youth will increase their academic knowledge and skills and increase their chance of academic advancement.
- Healthy Lifestyles: Children and youth will increasingly adopt healthy lifestyles.
- Safety and Structure:Children and youth will have a safe out-of-school time experience.
- Strengthening Families: Children, youth and families will have opportunities to strengthen their family.
BACKGROUND: The MBK task force was created to
develop a coordinated Federal effort to improve significantly the expected life outcomes for boys and young men of color (including Black Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans) and their contributions to U.S. prosperity, so that all youth have an equal opportunity at the American dream. It is important to note that there is significant diversity within and among these groups of the population. Differences of language status, income, disability, sexual orientation and many other factors influence the identity and experience of these young people, just as any other population. In addition, challenges facing boys and young men of color affect others as well. It is important to break down barriers wherever they exist and identify means of creating ladders of opportunity for all.
Monday, June 2, 2014
What's it like to grow up in DC?
If the first episode ("Intersections") of the new Shop Talk series is any indication, we're in for a profound ride. The first episode 
provides intimate, first-person testimonials from three young black men growing up in Ward 8, Southeast Anacostia, one of D.C.'s most underserved communities. These perspectives – captured within an historic barbershop at the intersection of Malcolm X and MLK Boulevards – were created to illuminate quantitative findings on the state of young black men in D.C., which were provided by noted scholars and educators, Dr. Ivory A. Toldson and Dr. Sarah D. Manekin.
The Shop Talk Storytelling Series (http://www.shoptalkdc.org/) made its debut May 28 at the Breakfast and Briefing on Black Male Achievement. The series "is a mixed-media, multi-episodic, storytelling series that examines the varying complexities, challenges and opportunities young people face growing up in our nation's capital."
The event, sponsored by DC Children and Youth Investment Trust Corporation, presented the Shop Talk series and data from the black male achievement report.
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Register today for Center for Excellence in Youth Development trainings
- Advancing Youth Development
- English Language Learners In Out-Of-School Time
- Adult and Child CPR/AED and First Aid
- Mandated Reporter Training
- Gang Intervention and Prevention
- Difficult Conversations, Difficult Conflicts: Transforming Hard Times Into Opportunities For Growth
Details of all sessions are in the course catalogue (PDF).
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