Join WYEN for an exciting series of interactive learning sessions designed to help you strengthen your practice, connect ideas to your everyday work, and bring new tools and perspectives to your program. From understanding how we show up for young people to fostering belonging, embracing failure, and asking better questions, each session offers practical ideas you can take with you and use right away.
Below are three options to connect and grow with us: learning sessions, resources, and event meet-ups.
Join Us This Fall
Professional Development
Join our webinar series to grow your skills and make new connections.
Fall Roadmap Webinar Series
The Mentor Mindset
Tuesday, September 15 at 11:30 AM - Bringing Our Best Selves to Our Work with Youth: How we show up matters. Explore how our attitudes, beliefs, and emotional stances shape the daily experience of young people and influence engagement and outcomes.
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Fall Roadmap Webinar Series
Development Primer - The Clover Model
Tuesday, September 22 at 11:30 AM - Development Primer: The Clover Model - Get to know the Clover Model and its four essential elements of development — Active Engagement, Assertiveness, Belonging, and Reflection — and learn how the framework helps you recognize and respond to the strengths of young people.
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Fall Roadmap Webinar Series
Failure as Fuel: The Maker Mindset
Tuesday, September 29 at 11:30 AM - Failure as Fuel: The Maker Mindset - Failure is part of learning. Explore how hands-on out-of-school time experiences build persistence, creative problem-solving, iteration, and a maker mindset in young people.
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Fall Roadmap Webinar Series
The Purpose of Questions
Tuesday, October 6 at 11:30 AM - The Purpose of Questions - Learn how purposeful, open-ended questions guide learning, spark critical thinking, and build meaningful connections with young people.
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Resources
Explore these curated resources to help you launch the school year.
Start with Strengths
Youth Asset Mapping Tool
A quick-start framework for youth programs, clubs, libraries or faith groups: Young people thrive when they can see the strengths around them. Asset mapping turns that into action: this short, hands-on session will help you and the young people you work alongside to surface local assets, build connections, and plan next steps.
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Explore Development
10 to 25 Study Guide
If you are interested in helping your team or organization more effectively deepen developmental relationships, build adult capacity to mentor and inspire youth, and create connected, career-relevant pathways, we invite you to use this guide as a starting point.
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Grow Quality
Program Quality Practices - A Reflection Tool
This is a reflection tool, not a compliance checklist. It's built on the belief that every program — like every young person — has real strengths to build from. Use it to notice what's already working, name where you want to grow, and set a course for continuous quality improvement grounded in your own program's story.
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Youth Voice
Destination Postcard Activity
This activity helps to reflect young people’s perspectives about their most meaningful learning. It seeks to harvest authentic perspectives from youth around Wyoming and invites them to reflect on where their best learning happens.
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Build Skills
Brokering Hope Activity
This session centers on participants telling their own stories to themselves and their peers, making them visible.
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Cultivate Community
The Time to Thrive Initiative is going on the road! Because stronger connections make a difference, WYEN is hosting community meet ups. Join us at a conversation near you.
Rawlins Meet Up
Thursday, September 3
Casper Meet Up
Planning is underway. Stay tuned for details!
Sheridan Meet Up
Planning is underway. Stay tuned for details!