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Seminars

Adults may sign up for a Professional Development Seminar in addition to the regular workshop offerings of the conference. Each seminar will provide in-depth exploration of a crime prevention strategy. Participants will receive certificates of attendance. There is an additional $99 fee for all seminars excluding the YCW Implementation Training.

Now full-day sessions!

Please note: Due to popular demand, we have changed our seminar format from a half day to a full day this year meaning that each session will be six to eight hours instead of the previous four hours. Only $99 per session!

Scheduled seminars

The ABC’s of Establishing a Successful Youth-to-Youth Mentoring Program

This session will focus on what it takes to develop a quality peer mentoring program in a school or community setting. Participants will learn the basics of establishing a mentoring program; how to make appropriate mentor-mentee matches; how to develop a training plan for both mentors and mentees; how to handle the administration, oversight, and management of the endeavor; and how to evaluate the impact of the program on the mentors and mentees. Many "hands-on" activities will be used to give participants the feeling of an actual experience in creating and maintaining an initiative to suit their needs.

Presented by John Mattson, Training/Program Development Manager, Rhode Island Children’s Crusade for Higher Education, Providence , Rhode Island

Make Them Hear You: Effectively Marketing Your Program

Telling the story of your program effectively is critical to survival in today’s competition for limited resources. This workshop is devoted to two key topics - marketing and the fine art of "asking." Focus is placed on how to "sell" your program to key funders, local community leaders, allies, and/or youth. Role playing and working with small groups completing group presentations and working on personal worksheets are the cornerstones of this seminar. Participants leaving this seminar will be able to identify three to five key messages concerning their program; provide a brief overview of prevention, asset building, adolescent brain development theory, and emotional intelligence theories; access the results of recent outcome studies concerning YCW; and organize a presentation or campaign to gain community support. Attendees will leave with a workbook outlining key talking points for at least five key constituencies as well as the beginning of a network of like-minded colleagues.

Presented by S. Jonann Wild, Director of Training and Technical Assistance, Youth Crime Watch of America, Miami, Florida.

The Nuts and Bolts of Creating and Managing Patrols and Safe and Anonymous Crime Reporting

Bring your sharpened pencils and be prepared to leave this session with a portfolio of materials to aid in implementing Youth Patrols and crime reporting in your setting. Spend six hours with like-minded colleagues focusing on strategies and techniques to build support from your administration while creating and maintaining a vibrant program. You will walk away with the YCW Reporting Handbook and YCW Patrol Handbook, a recruitment and selection process; a training plan as well tips on involving youth in the overall management of your initiative.

Presented by Bob Douglas, Executive Director, Kentucky Crime Prevention Coalition and YCWA Appalachian Regional Expansion Center, Erlanger , KY

Tibby Milne, Executive Director, Utah Council for Crime Prevention, YCWA Rocky Mountain Regional Expanion Center, Salt Lake City, UT

Gang Prevention and Intervention

This seminar will equip adult leaders with the tools to understand the gang problem and implement community-based approaches (to include the schools) for gang prevention and intervention. It will provide an opportunity to learn about and dialogue in four principal subject areas: understanding gangs; the role of community resources in addressing gang problems; the application of community-based programs that work with victims, youth, and neighborhoods in the gang scenario; and the implementation and resourcing of gang prevention and intervention programs. Understanding gangs includes information on gang signs, monikers, origins, tagging, wannabes, party crews, main gang members, and prison gangs. Participants will self-administer a survey to ascertain how much they know about gangs. Community-based applications include a discussion of coalition-building, models that work, funding, and techniques and strategies to insure the community resources are used effectively and efficiently. In discussing programming with victims, youth, and neighborhoods, Mr. Salinas will highlight models such as Youth Alive and Caught in the Crossfire in which intervention begins, among other places, at the hospital bed. The overview on implementing gang prevention efforts will include discussion of community mapping, identifying resources for youth, and finding resources for gang prevention and intervention when your own local resources are exhausted. The seminar will be interactive, providing participants with an opportunity to have questions answered while sharing experiences from the wisdom that has come from those experiences and the personal and professional background of the participants.

Presented by Gilbert Salinas, Director, Teens on Target, and Program Manager, Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center Family Project, Los Angeles, California

Youth Crime Watch Implementation Training

Learn how to implement the initiative that is now spreading all across the country and around the world because of its practicality, flexibility, and low cost, but most of all because it provides youth with an opportunity to lead an initiative on a subject that so deeply touches them: crime. The Implementation Training provides the rationale, ambience, concrete implementation steps, program model variations, planning components, and next steps needed to implement Youth Crime Watch in your jurisdiction. This will change the life of your neighborhood and school!

Presented by William Stansberry, Chillicothe Metropolitan Housing Authority, Chillicothe, Ohio

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Only $99 per session!

 

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College Credit or CEUs

Weber State has provided an opportunity for you to receive undergraduate course credit for $25 for a single credit. You will need to attend a specified list of courses, take notes, and write a final paper upon returning home. There is also CEUs registration for $10.00. See the Information Desk and Weber State Display for an overview of the process. You will need to provide your name, address, phone number, social security number, and birth date for the credit. Credit students may need a brief meeting with a Weber State representative, however, this will be by appointment only.