YIPA is hosting a four-hour professional training that will explore current hurdles facing African refugee youth and ways that schools, neighborhoods, and service providers can support successful transitions. Inside the community, issues of school performance and attendance, lack of employment opportunities, and public safety are top priorities. However, youth are still facing cultural identity crises, inter-generational conflicts, a lack of community resources, mental health issues, family poverty, gangs, and unique home/peer pressures. Individuals will learn how to work effectively with Somali youth and families and also engage in conversations about how schools, neighborhoods, and service agencies can build supportive communities for these youth and their families and help them clear the hurdles.
The cost for this half-day workshop is $15 for Promise Fellows! To register with this discounted rate, contact my supervisor Paul Meunier at 763-434-4190 or paulmeunier@comcast.net.
WHEN: Friday, April 29 · 8:30am - 1:00pm
WHERE: Webster Open Elementary School
415 Southeast 4th Avenue
Minneapolis, MN
