Community Trainings
Our trainings are designed to be 2 hours in length and can be modified as needed upon request. The curriculum are developed and facilitated in partnership with young people with lived experience. Each training can be adapted to best suit the needs of a particular audience.
Authentic Partnership with Youth and Young Adults
Learn how to operationalize Mockingbird’s approach to partnering with young people to create systems change. Includes a review of the youth and young adult partnership continuum to help participants identify where their organization falls on the continuum and make goals for change.
Culture of Foster Care
Build understanding and empathy for the experience of being in foster care, and learn to reduce the stigma associated with foster care through interactive activities and facilitator shared reflections. This training also surfaces practices within foster care to be improved.
Stories of Youth Homelessness
Build understanding and empathy for the experience of homelessness, and work to reduce the stigma associated with youth and young adult homelessness through interactive activities and facilitator shared reflections. Training also surfaces practices to be improved.
Storytelling for Advocacy
This training prepares participants to use their personal experiences for systems change, by helping them to identify their goals, strategically share in a way appropriate to the audience, practice storytelling, and receive feedback.
Supporting Students
Tailored for professionals working with students to help them understand the particular needs of students who have experienced foster care or homelessness. This training includes exercises to help develop skills in empathy, conversation, and support in working with students that have experienced trauma, and clearly outlines some best practices and approaches to avoid.
Trans 101
This introductory training will help participants work more sensitively with trans people. It reviews pronouns, the difference between gender and sexual identities, and builds empathy to the daily experience of trans folks though interactive activities.
Transitions
Tailored for service providers, this training identifies the difference between changes (the actual event in time) and transitions (an emotional process that results from change and isn’t complete until a person has gone through each of its three stages) and gives participants tools to help their clients navigate transitions with more ease, including recognizing the emotional markers of each stage.
Tragedy Tourism
To schedule a training with The Mockingbird Society, please contact:
Phyllis Sutton (she/her), Director of Youth Programs
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