YLI Institute

Building the capacity of organizations to work with diverse youth

We believe that transforming our social and political ecosystems requires a commitment to equity, elevating immigrant, refugee, and BIPOC voices, fostering youth-adult partnerships, and redistributing power.

We offer the following capacity-building activities to individuals and organizations:

Consultation and Technical Assistance:

Organizations can request YLI’s expertise to address specific aspects of their organization’s engagement with youth.

Training:

YLI conducts workshops on topics: sharing power with youth, youth leading youth, programming that matters to youth, dismantling white supremacy culture and deconstructing adultism, intentional multicultural programming and youth participatory evaluation. Workshops are co-led by youth and adult presenters.

Immersion in YLI:

Volunteers, interns and youth professionals immerse in YLI to gain knowledge about practices that center youth, promote justice, and transform systems that impact youth.

Our work has reached over 5,000 youth development professionals across the country.

Our breadth of knowledge and experience includes:

Youth leading youth
Youth and adults sharing power
Co-creating program design, delivery, and evaluation with youth
Ensuring program accessibility
Building a culture that supports the social and emotional learning of diverse youth
Connecting youth and building relationships across differences
Empowering youth to stand up for others in the face of injustice
Shifting the narrative of traditionally marginalized youth from being troubled teens and recipients of services to contributors and change agents

YLI Institute Partners

Our partnerships with institutions such as the University of Minnesota, Ignite Minnesota and Sprockets have enabled the YLI Institute to contribute to the professional development of thousands of individuals and youth-serving organizations across the Twin Cities and state.

Through these opportunities, we have shared YLI best practices of youth work, modeled co-facilitating with young people, and led learning cohorts on the topics of youth equity programming, youth engagement, culturally responsive leadership and youth participatory evaluation.

YLI Institute

Building the capacity of organizations to work with diverse youth

We believe that transforming our social and political ecosystems requires a commitment to equity, elevating immigrant, refugee, and BIPOC voices, fostering youth-adult partnerships, and redistributing power.

We offer the following capacity-building activities to individuals and organizations:

Consultation and Technical Assistance:

Training:

Immersion in YLI:

Our work has reached over 5,000 youth development professionals across the country.

Our breadth of knowledge and experience includes:

Youth leading youth

Youth and adults sharing power

Co-creating program design, delivery, and evaluation with youth

Ensuring program accessibility

Building a culture that supports the social and emotional learning of diverse youth

Connecting youth and building relationships across differences

Empowering youth to stand up for others in the face of injustice

Shifting the narrative of traditionally marginalized youth from being troubled teens and recipients of services to contributors and change agents

YLI Institute Partners

Our partnerships with institutions such as the University of Minnesota, Ignite Minnesota and Sprockets have enabled the YLI Institute to contribute to the professional development of thousands of individuals and youth-serving organizations across the Twin Cities and state.

Through these opportunities, we have shared YLI best practices of youth work, modeled co-facilitating with young people, and led learning cohorts on the topics of youth equity programming, youth engagement, culturally responsive leadership and youth participatory evaluation.

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