Date and Location: This free event takes place on Tuesday, July 28 from 10:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. at the Goodwill East Waco Community Room in Waco (attendees will receive the event address after registering). 5 CEUs will be available.
Youth-serving providers and stakeholders from Waco and surrounding areas are welcome to join.
Attendees will receive the event address and a calendar invite after registering.
Agenda:
The full event agenda is available
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- Training: To New Heights: Building Narrative Change Into Your Organization's Impact. Part of TNOYS’ Pathways for Addressing Cross-Systems Topics (PACT) Series, this training will explore narrative change, best practices to amplify the voices of youth and young adults, and how organizations can strengthen their storytelling and messaging to connect with key audiences.
- Mixer for Momentum Networking Lunch. Join us for a networking lunch to learn about TNOYS’ work and upcoming opportunities to grow your impact.
- Cross-Systems Capacity Conversations. Utilizing lessons learned from youth, young adults, and providers, TNOYS facilitators will lead conversations on improving services for young people experiencing or vulnerable to homelessness, with topics that include cross-systems collaborations among foster care, juvenile justice, education, workforce, health, and commercial sexual exploitation victim/survivor services to prevent homelessness, youth-focused Coordinated Entry, data sharing with HMIS, and more. Additional details to follow.
Description:
Too often, young people slip through gaps in support when their needs go unaddressed and when systems are not designed to support them. With support from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, this event will bring together stakeholders from across youth-serving systems to learn, collaborate, and build capacity to better meet the needs of young people who are experiencing or vulnerable to homelessness.
Who Should Attend?
We hope to convene a range of stakeholders from Waco and surrounding communities! This includes those with professional experience in one or more of TNOYS’ seven system areas: child welfare, health and behavioral health, justice, housing and homelessness services, survivor services and preventing/ addressing Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Youth (CSEY), education, and higher education/workforce. We encourage you to register and spread the word among your networks.