workshop series

Urbanthinkers’ Youth Engagement Workshop Series has been designed to help you build, or strengthen, sustainable and healthful soutions to school transportation problems in your community. Each workshop delves deepein in creating a clear, actionable plan of real and positive change uniquely adapted for your community.

In your city or town, thousands of competent young leaders (teen-aged and younger) await the opportunity to advocate for more biking & walking, less traffic congestion, and less air pollution. Authentic Youth Engagement is an effective model for achieving these goals - it takes some preparation, some training and tools - we're ready to help you.

sample week-long workshop series

Our Youth Engagement Workshop Series  offers training and support to help you more effectively engage child & youth leaders in your community.

COMMIT

A: Decision Maker Seminar

This first workshop, the Decision Maker seminar, helps decision-makers and supervisors assess how a youth engagement component can help to better achieve their organization's health and transportation goals. It is delivered on-line in advance of the subsequent workshops.

LEARN

B: Adult Facilitator Workshop

The Adult Facilitator Training workshop is a full-day interactive workshop for professionals in the fields of transportation, health promotion, community development, and environmental science. Hands-on activities, real-life examples, and skill-building exercises prepare adult facilitators for developing and promoting a youth engagement program.

LEAD

C: Student Leader Start-Up

Co-facilitated with several participants from the Adult Facilitator Training workshop, the Youth Leader Start-Up workshop helps local young leaders start a youth engagement program. Through team building, communication training, strategic thinking, and action planning, this workshop establish a “youth voice” to your community’s transportation and health initiatives.

ACTION

D: On-site Moving Forward

The On-site Moving Forward workshop is a working session for Individual school groups. Through realistic goal-setting and assessment, it is designed to raise awareness, generate opportunities, dismantle barriers, and empower youth to action. This workshop is co-facilitated with one or more attendees from the Adult Facilitator Training workshop.

MOMENTUM!

E: Creative Engagement & Next Steps

The Creative Engagement seminar examines the questions and opportunities that arose over the course of the workshop series. With an aim to translating creative ideas into sustainable activities, creative engagement ensures the learning is learned, and that it can be applied after the workshop series has ended.