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WEBINAR: From Challenge to Opportunity: How PlanBe Used Innovation, Youth Engagement, and Community Partnership to Adapt and Thrive

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This webinar will explore how PlanBe adapted its youth programming when changes in Florida law limited the organization’s ability to work in school-based settings. With more than 20 years of experience serving youth in Miami-Dade County and more than 75,000 youth reached, PlanBe will share how implementation challenges became opportunities to innovate, strengthen community partnerships, and expand community-based programming. Participants will learn how they pivoted from a primarily school-based approach to a community-based implementation model, including developing “The Breakfast Club,” a youth-centered strategy designed to increase engagement, recruitment, and retention. The webinar will highlight lessons learned around Positive Youth Development, youth voice, sustainability, multiple funding streams, and the importance of remaining flexible, relevant, and responsive to changing youth needs. Attendees will leave with practical strategies for navigating unexpected implementation challenges while maintaining program quality and meaningful youth engagement Objectives: Participants will be able to: Identify strategies for pivoting youth programs...

WEBINAR: How Teams Get Stuck: Navigating Relationship Skills and Real-Life

Online Webinar

People who support young people bring deep care, commitment, and skill to their work—but they are still human. Under stress, even the most thoughtful facilitators, educators, counselors, and helping professionals can become reactive, shut down, over-accommodate, or lose access to the very relationship skills they most want to model. In this practical and compassionate webinar, The Dibble Institute and Dovetail Learning will explore what happens when caring people get stuck. Participants will be introduced to Dovetail’s concept of Protective Patterns—common ways people react when they feel overwhelmed, vulnerable, or under pressure—and will consider how those patterns affect communication, conflict, and connection with colleagues, partners, and the young people they serve. Together, we’ll explore how curiosity can help interrupt unhelpful patterns and create more space for resilience, reflection, and repair. Participants will leave with practical tools they can use right away to strengthen relationships, navigate difficult moments, and support healthier interactions...

WEBINAR: Understanding the Story Your Youth Relationship Education Data is Trying to Tell You

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How Youth-Serving Programs Can Use Evaluation to Strengthen Implementation, Tell a Clearer Impact Story, and Prepare for Future Funding. Youth relationship education programs are changing lives every day, but many organizations struggle to clearly demonstrate what youth are learning, how programs are making a difference, and how to use data to strengthen implementation and future funding opportunities. In this interactive webinar, participants will explore practical, approachable ways to use evaluation as a tool for learning, improvement, and impact storytelling. Through real-world examples and hands-on activities, participants will learn how to develop meaningful evaluation questions, identify useful indicators and evidence, and translate findings into a compelling story about what youth are learning, experiencing, and applying. Whether you are new to evaluation or looking to strengthen your current efforts, this session will help you move beyond funder compliance and use data more strategically to support youth, programs, and communities. Objectives: Participants will...