This workshop will address how libraries can engage with youth across the community to create a larger impact, more meaningful connection, and increase positive outcomes for teens and young adults.
 

Participants will leave with an understanding of:

● Youth voice and co-creation of learning opportunities
● Collective impact efforts and their value to the community
● Community-led programming and the use of public participation in planning

As a result of this workshop, participants will:

● Review and critique current programs for opportunities to include youth voice and decision making.
● Use community asset mapping to identify several community assets and potential collaborators and identify opportunities for community engagement and collective impact efforts.
● Gain skills to look at program offerings from an equity perspective (who does this serve, who is making the decisions, and who is left out).

Facilitated by Nicole Rawlinson, M.L.I.S.

Nicole connects community-serving professionals to program, engagement, and service approaches through professional development and consulting. She is the co-designer and facilitator of the Developing Leaders in California Libraries emerging leaders program, has worked extensively in developing Transforming Teen Services educational equity modules, and served as a state trainer on the YALSA/IMLS Transforming Teen Services project. She is a current member of the ALSC Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Task Force.