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| Cby25 | Youth (ages 14-17) co-train with staff. Alumni (18+) develop curriculum and lead trainings, with a partner or solo. | Youth/alumni trainers must first attend Cby25's Policy to Practice Academy Learning Center, where they will receive intensive skills training in public speaking and presentation skills. |
| Elevate | Youth trainers are paired with an experienced adult trainer. Iowa child welfare trainers train in pairs, so alumni co-train with a foster parent/social worker. | Informal for youth. Alumni go through the same training for trainers as any other adult professional. |
| FosterClub | One or two youth are paired with an adult to share prescripted material, and relate their stories to it. | This one-year internship kicks off with an intensive full-time summer assignment during which All-Stars, based in Oregon, participate in training and take part in events across the country. Extensive training in facilitation skills is provided, in order to promote peer-learning through active participation. |
| Honoring Emancipated Youth | While serving an eleven-month term, participants can spend the last 3-4 months training. | As employees for an 11-month term, EYAB members receive professional and personal mentoring, hands-on community involvement, and employment experience. |
| PAL-STEP | Paired with a professional trainer. In each region the adults delivered the training, they identified a Youth Specialist to assist. | Youth Specialists met with the trainers ahead of time to go over the content and materials they would be presenting. They only shared personal experiences to the level they felt comfortable. |
| SAYSO | Young adults (ages 14-23) co-present with adults or foster care alumni. Each youth who participates helps create the workshop. | Two-day Summer Orientation, plus meeting with youth prior to event. Focus on content, presentation skills, working with difficult audiences and strategic sharing. |
| VOY | Youth Speakers represent themselves and their peers during conferences, staff trainings, peer training, committees and community forums. | At the end of their basic training, youth enjoy a Stepping Up ceremony where they publically deliver their first official speech on an issue of their choice to an audience made up of their peers and adults working within child welfare. These youth have earned the title of Youth Speaker. |
| YOUTH | Youth trainers co-train with one/more staff members, and might also be accompanied by one/more of their peers. Staff members (alumni) coach youth during rehearsal, assist with set-up, shadow and/or help with the presentation and debrief afterwards. Alumni trainers are trained extensively, and empowered to develop curriculum and lead entire trainings. | As soon as new trainers are required to attend the Leadership Institute, where they receive intensive facilitation skills training, and practice using samples of the YOUTH curriculum. All trainings require arrival the day before the actual presentation in order to rehearse. |