AGENDA

Session Overview
In this interactive session, participants will explore the power of collaboration in overcoming challenges and achieving the seemingly impossible. Focusing on youth-based scenarios, this session will emphasize the importance of teamwork, creative problem-solving, and collective action.

Learning Objectives

1. Provide opportunity for collaboration and skills exchange for frontline workers

2. Challenge staffs process on problem solving within the stage of change 

3. Promote psychological safety to Outreach workers as we know that the work sometimes is impossible

Workshop Overview
The Stages of Change model serves as a foundation for understanding and supporting both youth and staff development. This engaging management workshop will focus on fostering collaborative leadership, aligning team values and creating a shared vision for the future of the PYOW program. 

Key Objectives

• Reflect on the program’s core values—youth engagement, advocacy, innovation, and collaboration—and management’s role in leadership.

• Explore leadership challenges and growth opportunities, ensuring alignment with community and staff needs.

• Develop strategies for empowering staff through supervision, coaching, and mentoring rooted in the Stages of Change framework.

Interactive Components

• Vision-building exercises to create a roadmap for program growth, grounded in shared values and the Stages of Change model.

• Leadership style assessments and collaborative brainstorming activities.

• Strategy development for enhancing staff engagement and professional growth.

Workshop Overview
Through Ubuntu: Healing Youth through the Power of Relationships, participants will gain valuable insights and actionable skills to support youth in a holistic, community-centered way. This session explores the profound effects of disconnection, trauma, and risk factors on youth mental health and gender-based violence. By focusing on evidence-based practices, attendees will enhance strategies for addressing unhealthy relationships experienced by youth. Ubuntu seeks to enhance capacity to identify risks, as well as implement community centered approaches that empower youth through relationships. 

Learning Outcomes

• Connect with Healing-Centered Intervention Models that promote community and relational healing

• Gain a deeper understanding of how trauma, safety, and disconnection shape youth vulnerability to unhealthy relationships

• Strengthen education and strategies to address gender-based violence in service delivery 

Workshop Overview
This interactive session will highlight how Canadian economic conditions are changing and why our approach to supporting youth needs to evolve accordingly. Participants will learn about the three pillars of resilience model - Economic, Social and Emotional – that will inform and guide youth engagement. 

Learning Outcomes

1. Help participants zoom out from their daily work to understand where we are in the economic cycle and how this impacts youth.

2. Challenge whether our current youth support systems are adequately prepared for today’s economic conditions.

3. Reflect on the sector’s readiness to meet the demands of a tougher economic environment.

4. Introduce a holistic resilience-building approach through the Resilient Futures Project. 

Overview
During this 1-hour PLAYshop, you will engage in various interactive games and discussions that will focus on CONNECTION ....and FUN! The PLAYshop will be capped off by a fun finale that will be sure to be remembered and have you grinning from ear to ear! 

What is a PLAYshop? PLAYshops are truly unique ways for teams to learn and grow while allowing them to relax, let loose and drop their 'work front'. Be ready to laugh and bond in unbelievable ways!

What to Bring

Your smiles, positive attitude and willingness to play! That's it!