What is the Cultural Relevancy Institute?
Youth Development Network (YDN), with generous support from the Foundation for Youth Investment, will facilitate the Cultural Relevancy Institute series.

Building off of the success of the 2013 Cultural Competency Youth Impact Series, this opportunity will help your organization create lasting and noticeable
change within programs, policies, and procedures to improve engagement with more diverse populations and traditionally
hard-to-reach youth.

Why should your organization be involved?
The project includes a series of comprehensive workshops that will be held in Sacramento, California, paired with virtual coaching sessions, for organizations who work with youth and the outdoors and who are striving to improve their ability to reach and engage young people of color or
low-income youth.

Through this Cultural Relevancy Series, participating organizations and staff will:
 
• Experience four powerful
half-day workshops focused on learning from peer organizations, listening to youth, and celebrating progress made as a group in shaping policies, procedures and programs.

• Connect with a professional community of outdoor youth service providers.

• Focus on implementing new policies, procedures and programs that broaden the organization’s impact on youth of diverse backgrounds.

• Receive weekly virtual coaching sessions with YDN staff to support implementation of new policies, procedures and programs based on learnings from the workshops.

This program is brought to you through the generous sponsorship of the Foundation for Youth Investment

 

Cultural Relevancy Institute Series: 
Expanding Your Cultural Reach

Applications are now being accepted from organizations interested in attending a series of comprehensive workshops that will be held in Sacramento over a 12-week period beginning the end of August.

Applications due July 17, 2015

Online application below may be completed and submitted 
(this is a real-time application with no save option) or 
 


Cultural Relevancy Institute Series Application
Please provide the following information and as a team answer the following questions.
Name of Organization *
Street Address *
City *
State *
Zip Code *
Phone # *
Name of Organization's Chief Executive *
E-mail Address *
Contact Person for Application *
Phone # *
Fax # *
E-mail Address *
FTE *
Annual Operating Budget *
Ages of Youth Served *
Number of Youth Served Per Year *
Tax ID *
NARRATIVE - Complete the following:
1. List persons by name and title that are included in your team and why these staff members were selected to participate in the Cultural Relevancy Institute Series. 
Participating Staff (team of 3 to 5) *
Why Participating Staff Selected *
2. Provide organization's mission and a brief description of programs. Describe the population of youth served. How does reaching diverse youth and/or youth development fit into your mission?
Mission and Description *
3. What experience has your organization had in reaching out to and engaging youth of color and/or youth of low socioeconomic status? Where have you succeeded in this area? And what challenges have you faced? 
Experience *
4. What would help your staff and organization/program improve in the area of cultural relevancy? (Consider this topic internally
and externally i.e. with fellow staff, and also with clients and youth you serve) What outcomes do you expect for your staff and
organization as a result of participating in the Institute Series?
Outcomes *
5. Why does your organization want to participate in the Cultural Relevancy Institute Series?
Why *
AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE - Executive Director

By clicking the "Submit Form" button below, I understand the expectations of participating organizations and staff that the Institute Series presents and my organization can commit to and meet these expectations.

By placing your name in the box below as the Executive Director's, it will be honored as an online signature accepting commitments to the program expectations.

For further inquiries regarding the Cultural Relevancy Series, please contact Eric Banh, Program Associate at (916) 566-1652.
Executive Director Online Signature *

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