After a successful application to Hive’s Remixable Open Educational Resources grant, SBL decided to put together five online narratives and five workshops to be shared through a teaching kit. The teaching kit was designed to share our learnings through the lens of best-practices for working in partnership and collaboration with youth facing multiple barriers. This has also been a great way to share our expertise with HIVE Toronto members  http://hivetoronto.org/  and the wider community as well as have a living document for SBL’s own training and programming purposes. Below are the short descriptions of the workshop topics and links to the full teaching kits.

Re-Thinking Mentorship:

A broadened definition of mentorship in engaging potential youth leaders.

https://sbl.makes.org/thimble/LTM0MDAwMDUxMg==/re-thinking-mentorship

Designing Against Barriers to Participation: 

Integral to our program design is the recognition and identification of barriers to participation and then focusing resources at removing those barriers.

https://sbl.makes.org/thimble/MTE2OTA5Njk2MA==/barriers-to-participation

Bricolage: Youth-Led, Youth-Focused, Youth-Driven:

People talk about youth organizations as youth-led, youth-focused, or youth-driven, but we can share the importance of being a combination of all of them.

https://sbl.makes.org/thimble/LTQwODAyNjg4MA==/make-your-own-teaching-kit

Graduation Model and Program Design:

Deepening the impact of our core programming through extending the opportunities for youth to be deeply engaged pre and post.

https://sbl.makes.org/thimble/MTM1MzY0NjMzNg==/growth-model

Intentionality in Relationship Building:

The way that we create programming and space to build relationships which makes all of the other outcomes, projects, programs and engagement possible.

https://sbl.makes.org/thimble/MjEyNzk1NjQ4/make-your-own-teaching-kit