Enhancing youth leadership skills is a key component in all of our youth work.
We provide workshops, technical assistance and training for youth, and the adults who support them. Our workshops for youth are co-facilitated by VISIONS Youth Consultants (ages 16-24), who are trained to teach youth peer leadership skills. Youth services and resources currently offered include:
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Talking about Race: This five minute clip offers guidelines for having conversations about race and other differences. |
The YES! KIT was designed for you.
Do you want to:
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YES! Kit Guide
The guide is divided into five distinct sessions that focus on each key element of the process of learning and change. With this tool, educators and youth workers can move youth from awareness to action, guided by topics such as recognizing varying forms of exclusion, understanding the impact of personal thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and translating new information and insights to the real world. YES! Kit DVD The DVD showcases youth in action at a Youth Engagement Strategies (YES) conference hosted by VISIONS and its partners. Within the three sections of the DVD, youth participants progress through a series of learning, change, and action oriented sessions and experiences, designed to empower them to challenge oppression in their communities. 1 YES! Kit: $150 + $2.95 S&H 3 YES! Kits: $100 each + $6 S&H 3 YES! Kits + Half-day Training: $1,000 + Free S&H – Please contact VISIONS for more information. |
The Legacy Project—a youth employment, training and empowerment program.
Each summer teens and young adults are given the opportunity to learn the VISIONS model and run community arts events focused around justice and equity. During the school year, participants continue their training in order to become youth consultants and maintain contact with a positive peer and adult community. The program teaches young people how to be instruments of social change by empowering them to understand the root causes of systemic inequities, and equipping them with the skills necessary to be educators of other youth. Youth gain the ability to understand their current reality through a historical, economic, and psychological lens that takes into account the effect that such oppression has over time on individuals and communities. |
Jamila Capitman, Founder of the VISIONS Legacy Project, explains the purpose and impact of the program. |
VISIONS offers customized workshops to organizations and groups that want to engage youth around issues of diversity, inclusion and equity.
Our Youth Empowerment Workshops focus on both the personal and societal impacts of exclusion—based on race, gender, class, ethnicity and other factors—and empower youth to become catalysts for social change. Both youth and the adults who work with them report that VISIONS training has:
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Jovonna Jones, a student at Emory University in Atlanta, was part of VISIONS’ Legacy Project. She now serves as a Youth Consultant and board member. Jovonna shares how VISIONS makes a difference in her life and in the world. |