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TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
Empowerment Exchange offers customized training and development seminars and workshops that are recognized as the premier source for skill-based training throughout the state of North Carolina. We specialize in providing training for schools, non-profit organizations, state agencies, juvenile justice facilities and corporations to effectively implement evidence-based programs and strategies.
DIRECT SERVICE SEMINARS
Get HYPE: Helping Young People Excel
This Seminar will explore how providers can become leaders that youth want to follow. The workshop will show how effective leadership can help reduce negative risk taking, disciplinary problems and enhance academic achievement. Providers will learn knowledge and skills that will allow them to lead with influence rather than authority to help young people realize their potential to excel
Objectives:
:: Explore the five dimensions of effective leadership
:: Examine various leadership styles
:: Develop strategies to empower youth to be leaders
Up from Here: Understanding the Impact of Poverty
This workshop will explore the relationship between generational and situational poverty and the effects on choices and decision-making. Through data exploration and skilled-based activities, participants will explore that attitudes and beliefs of individuals who live in poverty. Participants will be introduced to strategies that can be implemented to assist individuals in overcoming the obstacles that poverty can create. Objectives:
Objectives:
:: Explore current data on poverty
:: Understand the hidden norms of poverty and class
:: Explore and develop strategies around necessary resources for success
:: Identify registers of language for personal and professional success
Helping Teens Make Proud Choices
Perhaps the only situation more difficult than being a teen, is being an adult attempting to help teens make good decisions. Kwain will take workshop participants through cooperative learning exercises that will examine current research on how the adolescent brain functions as a context for negative risk-taking and effective decision making. Kwain will model activities participants can use to assist the teens they serve become STAR decision makers and avoid risky situations.
Objectives:
:: Increase knowledge of adolescent risk-taking
:: Examine healthful living skills
:: Review the S.T.A.R. decision-making model
:: Participate in skill-based learning activities
Developing Servant Leadership in Adolescents and Teens
This session will provide members from the faith community with specific strategies to increase youth involvement and cultivate youth leadership. The presenter will demonstrate how servant leadership can empower teens to contribute to their communities and to begin a life long journey of leadership and service.
Objectives:
:: Define service learning
:: Examine the service learning cycle
:: Identify levels of leadership for service learning
:: Explore potential service learning projects
Hip Hop Culture: A Bridge for Connecting with Urban Youth
Although Hip Hop has been in existence for over 30 years, it continues to be a fast-growing, fast-paced popular culture that has permeated the conscience of today’s youth especially young urban youth. This workshop will examine the risks associated with the current Hip Hop culture and explore ways provider can use the culture to connect with urban youth. Providers will gain knowledge and skills to assist with positive behavioral change by helping youth use the jargon and rhyming lyrics to express their emotions, challenges and dreams
Objectives:
:: Use Hip Hop Culture to help build relationships and alliances
:: Utilize rap lyrics and Hip Hop icons to challenge messages marketed to youth
:: Develop strategies in which teens can use the culture to bring about desired behavior change
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SEMINARS
The Ultimate Leader: How to Become the Leader People Love to Follow
Ultimate Leaders experience the satisfaction of helping others learn, grow and transcend their previous achievements. This workshop will guide participants through five essential areas to become an Ultimate Leader. Participants will gain knowledge and skills necessary to create a culture in which people consistently perform at their best and follow you to the next level.
Objectives:
:: Identify qualities and characteristics of Ultimate Leaders
:: Assess various leadership styles
:: Examine the five essential dimensions of Ultimate Leadership
:: Learn how to lead with influence rather than authority
Dream Team: How Effective Teamwork Can Turn into Dreamwork
For any company, organization, community or group to be successful, it has to have individuals who respect each other and who are willing to make personal sacrifices for the good of the team. This workshop will show how effective teamwork can become awesome “dreamwork”. This interactive workshop will explore strategies for developing teams with a high interdependence and commitment towards achieving a desired goal or mission.
Objectives:
:: Discover the seven core characteristics of Dream Teams
:: Examine the stages of effective Team Development
:: Explore strategies to create team commitment
:: Participate in Team Building activities
Strategies for Job Satisfaction
Sometimes work requires too much effort. It seems like work takes too much energy and you end up feeling tired, frustrated, unfulfilled and mad that you have to go in. This workshop will explore five specific strategies for finding fulfillment on and off the job.
Objectives:
:: Discover the three primary approaches to jobs
:: Examine the five strategies for job fulfillment
:: Highlight effective stress management strategies
:: Review the seven steps to a passionate life
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YOUTH SEMINARS
Title: It’s Your Life: Think Big, Act Bigger and Live Better
This motivating presentation will encourage young people to become the architects of their lives. Kwain will share key strategies that will assist teens with turning their dreams into reality. He will also demonstrate how negative risk-taking behavior such as violence, substance use and abuse can prevent youth from maximizing their full potential.
Objectives:
:: Explore how positive thinking impacts decision-making.
:: Encourage teens to take action in pursuit of life goals
:: Examine strategies that will assist teens in becoming leaders
Title: Get HYPE!
This high energy session is designed to help teens get excited about their future. Kwain will take teens on an educational journey that will inspire teens to look toward their future with great anticipation. He will provide them with winning life strategies that they can implement on a daily basis.
Objectives:
:: Highlight the positive attributes of today’s youth.
:: Explore ways to use school to make dreams come true
:: Examine winning life strategies that teens can implement daily
Title: From Use to Abuse: The Sobering Facts about Alcohol, Tobacco and Drugs
This interactive session will empower teens to make proud and responsible choices that will reduce their risk of substance use or abuse. Mr. Bryant will engage students in a number of cooperative learning and skill building activities that will enhance their knowledge and ability to make life saving decisions about alcohol, tobacco and other drugs.
Objectives:
:: Explore attitudes and beliefs about teen substance use and abuse.
:: Increase knowledge of prevention strategies
:: Demonstrate skill that will assist teens in responding to negative peer pressure to use drugs
Title: The Secret of Your Success: College and Career Planning
This thought-provoking and engaging workshop will educate participants about getting into college, the process, and practical tips to use in doing so. It will also use the True Colors method and Career Builders tool to help determine and explore careers based on personality types. The workshop will review various types of job applications; give an overview on resume tips, wrapping up with dialogue and questions and answers about college access and planning viable careers/job seeking skills for the participants
Objectives:
:: Participants will learn what they need to do to get started in the College Access process.
:: Participants will discover who they are and what their strengths are through the True Colors method and apply what they have learned in the session to various types of careers.
:: Participants will learn how to make the best college and career choices for themselves through exercises, practical tips and resources, and dialogue/interactive discussion.
Title: Males and Females: The game of Love
This interactive workshop will encourage and inspire participants to feel confident and proud of them for who they are without compromising their morals and virtue to be accepted by others. Participants will discuss the importance of being involved in healthy relationships with opposite sex friends, same sex friends, parents, and other adults.
Objectives:
:: Male and Female adolescents will exchange and share their personal views and ideas on matters as they relate to healthy and unhealthy relationships.
:: Participants will learn how to identify the warning signs of unhealthy relationships and how to avoid them.
:: Participants, through role play will discover positive ways to approach individuals that they may be attracted to and or how to accept or handle someone’s advances towards them.
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