Youth Leadership Development

These workshops support both young people and the organizations, educators, and community leaders who work alongside them.

For youth participants, workshops create space to explore leadership, identity, values, voice, decision-making, community connection, and the kind of change they want to help create.

For adults and organizations, workshops offer tools for designing stronger youth leadership programs, sharing power responsibly, listening more deeply, and creating the conditions where young people can be seen, trusted, supported, and meaningfully included.

Rather than treating youth leadership as a single program, skill set, or résumé-building opportunity, these workshops explore the relationships, structures, values, and community conditions that allow youth leadership to grow in real life.

Possible workshop topics include:

Exploring leadership, values, identity, and voice with young people
Helping youth identify the issues and communities they care about
Supporting youth-led decision-making and action
Building youth leadership ecosystems
Moving beyond tokenism in youth engagement
Designing programs that treat young people as whole people
Creating meaningful roles for youth voice and decision-making
Supporting intergenerational leadership
Developing teen boards, advisory groups, and youth-led initiatives
Helping adults share power with young people in responsible and sustainable ways

These workshops are especially useful for youth-serving nonprofits, Jewish communal organizations, schools, foundations, teen leadership programs, youth boards, educators, and community organizations seeking to strengthen youth leadership from both sides of the relationship: the young people who are leading and the adults who are building the conditions for their leadership to matter.