Leading Change in Youth‑Serving Systems for Lasting Impact Training Series

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In youth-serving systems, we often start out with ambitious reform ideas but run quickly into practical challenges like:

  • What’s the best way to use data?
  • How do you know your programs are making a difference?
  • How do you translate really great ideas into actual, thriving and sustainable programs?
  • Are you asking the right questions when gathering data?
  • What’s the best way to gain traction with stakeholders?
  • Are there any “tricks” to successful implementation?

The Leading Change in Youth-Serving Systems for Impact Training Series is designed to address questions like these through accessible six-hour online workshops. Each workshop addresses a thematic question or challenge facing youth-serving professionals over two days of immersive large group presentations, small group breakout sessions, and deep engagement into the programs and challenges that participants bring with them.

We hosted our first two Leading Change workshops in 2025, with more on the way, including new topics, “advanced” courses of existing workshops, and potential rehosting of previous sessions!

Upcoming Workshops!

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Leading Through Tension: Communicating Fairness in Practice in Today’s Youth Legal Systems

Join us March 26 and April 9 for a two-day virtual workshop that equips leaders with practical communication strategies grounded in Fairness in Practice approaches that focus on decision-making, consistency, transparency, and outcomes for young people and communities. Rather than debating ideology, participants will learn to reframe equity work through shared values, professional standards, and everyday practice, enabling critical improvement efforts to continue in constructive, credible ways.

Leaders in youth legal systems are navigating an increasingly complex environment where conversations about race, ethnicity, disparities, and equity are often politicized, misunderstood, or met with resistance. Yet the responsibility to ensure fair, effective, and Community-responsive practice has never been greater.

Learn more about the program in the video and register now.

Video link: https://youtu.be/6CQXu141XIk

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New Workshop in May! Navigating Stakeholder Dynamics in Youth-Serving Systems: Practical Tools for Cross-System Collaboration

Previous Workshops

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Series Blog Posts

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March 13th, 2026

Learn more about the Fairness in Practice Framework, which will be a key tool in our upcoming two-day immersive virtual workshop: Leading Through Tension: Communicating Fairness in Practice in…