Empowering Baltimore’s Jewish Teens

Tapping into your Full Potential by exploring relationships and your personal work style.
Faun R. Zarge will facilitate three sessions for early career professionals.

Thursday, February 2, 2023: Tapping into Your Full Potential: The Value of Professional Self-Awareness
Broaden self-awareness and learn to best lean into your strengths and demonstrate leadership in ways that are impactful 
– Reflect and consider your preferred work style, where you feel more or less confident, and how to communicate this to your supervisor
– Acquire strategies for avoiding imposter syndrome
– Learn how to ask for the feedback that will help expand your self-understanding
– Troubleshoot common, and sometimes tricky, workplace scenarios

Tuesday, February 28, 2023: Tapping into Your Full Potential: The Value of Understanding Your Manager and Colleagues
Understand how to communicate and work with others more effectively, and with less frustration for everyone involved. 
– Identify ways to genuinely get to know your manager and colleagues, personally and professionally
– Consider how to intentionally build these connections in our new hybrid and fluid work environment
– Explore the many ways one must understand their manager including what motivates them, how they process information, problem solve, etc.
– Troubleshoot common, and sometimes tricky, workplace scenarios

Tuesday, March 14, 2023: The Value of Communication, a discussion between the early career participants and their managers.
Managers and Supervisors are invited to join early career pros in conversation, learning what makes the other tick, what motivates the other, and how to work together to bring our unique set of skills to the table to demonstrate one can lead from any seat.

Join 4Front for a winter teen professionals networking event!

Meet us at Checkerspot Brewing Company for a drink and an opportunity to reconnect with fellow Baltimore youth professionals! Enjoy a beer and some apps, network with your fellow colleagues, and hear about some exciting opportunities coming your way. We can’t wait to see you again!

When: Tuesday, Feb 7 at 5pm

Where: Checkerspot Brewing Company (1399 S Sharp St, Baltimore, MD 21230 – Free parking available)

Join 4Front for a certification training of Youth Mental Health First Aid. YMHFA teaches adults who work with youth how to identify, understand and respond to signs of mental health and substance use challenges among children and adolescents ages 12-18. Light breakfast, lunch and snacks will be provided.

What Mental Health First Aid Covers:

• Common signs and symptoms of mental health challenges in this age group, including anxiety, depression, eating disorders and attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD).
• Common signs and symptoms of substance use challenges.
• How to interact with a child or adolescent in crisis.
• How to connect the youth with help.
• Expanded content on trauma, substance use, self-care and the impact of social media and bullying.

This will be an 8 hour, in-person training. The day will include multiple breaks and lunch will be provided by 4Front.

Cost: $36 – highly subsidized by 4Front

Questions please contact Diana Solomon at [email protected]

This three-week interactive series with Moving Traditions will deepen your understandings around gender and how teens relate to, internalize, and express themselves and their diverse identities.  Strengthen your ability to support young people and their families as they navigate this important topic.