Youth Mental Health First Aid Training
Date: Date TBA | 8:30am – 4:00pm ET | Owings Mills JCC | Hosted by: 4Front
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. Meals will be provided.
What Mental Health First Aid Covers:
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- 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.
The Name Game
Ongoing
Join the name game! A brand new networking tool that will help Jewish youth professionals connect with others in our field and build a bigger, better community network. Answer a few fun questions about your networking interests and goals and, like magic, the Name Game will connect you to colleagues across the country for 1:1 casual conversations (with a not-so-casual, professional impact!). Grow your work, share your wisdom, and spark creative partnerships.
ICenterED: Israeli Election Webinars
Dates: October 25 at 5pm ET and November 3 at 7:30pm ET | Virtual | FREE | Hosted by: The iCenter
iCenterED: Making Sense of Israeli Democracy and Elections: Register: Tue. 10/25, 4:00pm CT / 5:00pm ET / 2:00pm PT, 1 hr
Join The iCenter’s Carl Schrag, former Editor of The Jerusalem Post, for a behind-the-scenes look at how the Israeli election system works, why it hasn’t been working so well lately, and what to watch for after the polls close this time around. We’ll have lots of time for your questions and will also share election-focused educational resources!
iCenterED: Untangling the Results of Israeli Elections- Register: Thu. 11/3, 6:30pm CT / 7:30pm ET / 4:30pm PT, 1 hr
In Israel’s version of parliamentary democracy, the real horse-trading begins after the polls have closed and the votes have been counted. Join The iCenter’s Carl Schrag, former Editor of The Jerusalem Post, as we dive into the results of the November 1 election and parse possible outcomes. Will a government be formed? Who will join and who will be left out? Or will yet another round of elections be on the immediate horizon? Bring your questions… but we’ll all probably be asking them for the days and weeks to follow!
Expanding Your Reach Masterclass: The Entrepreneurial Mindset- What Youth Professionals Can Learn from Startup Culture
Date: November 29, December 6, December 13 | 1:00pm – 2:30pm ET | Virtual | Hosted by: Expanding Your Reach | Cost: Free
This three week series with entrepreneur Henrik Scheel (StartUp Experience) will bolster your skill sets around entrepreneurship with fun activities and a supportive community of colleagues. Learn how the entrepreneurial spirit has sustained Jewish professionals for thousands of years! You’ll leave this series newly inspired, energized, and with tools to bring any venture from idea to reality. Participants will also receive a one-month subscription to the StartUp Academy for Jewish Educators.
Expanding Your Reach Masterclass: Understanding Gender and Supporting Jewish Teens
Date: March 8, 15, and 22 | Time TBD | Virtual | Hosted by: Expanding Your Reach | Cost: Free
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.
Past Programs & Events
Constructing Our Racial and Ethnic Identities (VIRTUAL)
Date: May 18, 2022 | 12:30pm – 3:30pm ET | Virtual | Hosted by: Jewish LearningWorks | Cost: $54
Develop your personal identity blueprint to create meaningful connections with your students. This three-hour session led by Dr. Sandra Chapman, an educator and equity consultant with more than thirty years of experience in independent schools, will use individual reflection and writing, alongside small group conversation to help us explore our own identities and consider the ways in which they impact our daily interactions with others, as educators, leaders, and in our personal lives.
- Aimed at: Jewish educators across all settings. We believe this program is essential for educational leaders, teachers and anyone facilitating learning experiences in a Jewish school, camp, youth group or communal organization.
- Structure: Offered one-time as the foundational seminar of our Fall 2022 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion educational series: Widening Our Lens.
- Facilitated by: Dr. Sandra Chapman, founder of Chap Equity.
Pacing Ourselves: Supporting Our Teens’ Mental Health Through the Pandemic Marathon (VIRTUAL)
Date: May 11, 2022 | 1:00pm – 2:00pm ET | Virtual | Hosted by: Jewish LearningWorks | Cost: $18
Adolescence can be a bumpy road any year, but combined with a pandemic, everything is exacerbated. Our teens’ natural growth and development brings along challenges and celebrations that call for us to be prepared and present.
In this three-part series with Dr. Betsy Stone, we will explore different aspects of adolescent development, and how we can best support our teens navigate their way through them considering the constraints and compounding effects of the pandemic on them and ourselves.
- Aimed at: Youth professionals and anyone who interacts with Jewish teens.
- Structure: Online three-part workshop. You are welcome to attend one, two or all three sessions. Each one is a stand-alone program.
- Facilitated by: Dr. Betsy Stone
- Launching and Seeking on May 11, 2022: How has the pandemic impacted our teens’ ability to manage transitions and how do we support our teens as they navigate through new stages? How can we create openness in our programming so that our teens feel encouraged to grapple with big questions in life? What is spirituality anyway?
JEWISH FUTURES X: SCARED OR SACRED? THE FUTURE OF JEWISH LEARNING
Date: March 8, 2022 | 12:00 – 1:30pm ET | Virtual | Hosted by: Jewish Education Project | Cost: $36 per team
B’nai Mitzvah ceremonies in Roblox worlds. Passover seders with readings from Greta Thunberg. Invoking the Tanakh while advocating in state houses and on Capitol Hill. Jewish youth are drawing inspiration from influencers, their friends, and the phones in their pockets. How can we prepare to transform the ways Judaism is consumed and experienced? Author and podcaster Casper ter Kuile will help us prepare for this new world. This will not be just another Zoom call – get ready to break through the screens and connect on and offline.
Following the webinar, there will be an optional 45-minute session (1:30-2:15pm) Jewish Futures X Networking: While our time together is virtual, we want to offer the opportunity to take part in the hallway conversation part of coming together, as well as the learning time. You’re invited to join us for an open-space networking session, where you’ll have the chance to connect with fellow educators + thought leaders from around the country.
Reimagine: A Convening to Explore and Elevate the Work of Jewish Youth Professionals (VIRTUAL)
Date: March 3, 2022 | 2:00 – 5:00pm ET | Virtual | Hosted by: Jewish LearningWorks | Cost: $36 per team
An interactive gathering of educators, supervisors and lay leaders featuring Mark S. Young.
As many Jewish youth professionals navigate the challenge of returning to in-person experiences and we reach two years since COVID-19 descended on our workplaces, we are presented with an opportunity.
- How can we use this transition to re-imagine the workplace experiences of our Jewish youth professionals to one that best suits the passions and needs of our talent?
- How might we focus our efforts investing in our talent and optimizing the employer-employee relationship so our organizations can truly thrive?
Join us to help us address these questions individually, as teams of Jewish educational professionals and lay leaders, and as a collective. Aimed at: Jewish educational professionals, youth professionals and their supervisors, clergy and lay leaders. Individuals or teams of three or more. We hope to impact the Jewish educational landscape and invite everyone who is involved in teen Jewish education to attend. Reimagine is hosted by Jewish LearningWorks and JTEEN.
Pacing Ourselves: Supporting Our Teens’ Mental Health Through the Pandemic Marathon
Date: January 18, 2022, March 16, 2022 and April 27, 2022 | 1:00pm – 2:00pm | Virtual | Hosted by: Jewish Learning Works | Cost: $18 per workshop, or all three for $36.
Adolescence can be a bumpy road any year, but combined with a pandemic, everything is exacerbated. Our teens’ natural growth and development brings along challenges and celebrations that call for us to be prepared and present.
In this three-part series with Dr. Betsy Stone, we will explore different aspects of adolescent development, and how we can best support our teens navigate their way through them considering the constraints and compounding effects of the pandemic on them and ourselves.
Unpack Privilege and Embrace Diversity with Tani Prell
November 4 at 2pm EST | Zoom | Hosted by LAJTI, SDJTI and BJE
Join this important session with the acclaimed educator Tani Prell (of 18 Doors), designed to help Youth Pros unpack their own identities and better understand the role they can play in shaping anti-oppressive spaces for the teens they serve. Hosted by the Los Angeles Jewish Teen Initiative, San Diego Jewish Teen Initiative & BJE, this virtual workshop is open to youth professionals in our Funder Collaborative communities.
Face to Face: Preparing to See Our Teens in Person Again
September 2, 2021 | 2pm ET | Free | Virtual
Hosted by: Jewish Learning Works
Join us as we learn with Dr. Betsy Stone about Re-emergence and Growth Through Trauma. This session is geared to professionals who work with teens in camps, synagogues, youth groups, and other youth-serving organizations. This session is brought to you by the Los Angeles Jewish Teen Initiative, San Diego Jewish Teen Initiative & BJE
Back To School: Managing Stress, the Grind & Expectations
August 30, 2021 | 7:00-8:30pm ET | Free | Virtual
Hosted by: We Need to Talk, Jewish Family Service of Metro Detroit, Jewish Federation of Metro Detroit
We Need To Talk invites you to a virtual (Zoom) panel discussion, “Back To School: Managing Stress, the Grind, and Expectations”. Children and teens have more on their plates than ever before; managing the demands of schoolwork and extracurricular activities, all while continuing to cope with a global pandemic. Join our panelists, Dr. Natasha Kendal, Ph.D, LMFT, Brenda Mann, MA Ed, Rabbi Yarden Blumstein, and Laura Milner, LMSW, to learn concrete strategies to help youth in your life manage anxiety, stress, and challenges that may arise during their transition back to school. This event is free and open to everyone!
We Need To Talk is a program of Jewish Family Service and the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, focused on raising awareness about youth mental illness, and providing tools and resources for those in need of care.
2021 Collection: May Mental Health Awareness Month -The Jewish Educator Portal
Ongoing throughout May | By: Jewish Education Project
The goal of May Mental Health Month is to increase awareness of the importance of mental health and wellness in Americans’ lives, and recognize the role we provide in developing coping skills as we build resiliency in ourselves and others. The collection is intended to introduce resources for key areas of work as we seek to provide and receive support towards thriving. The collection includes resources, guides, articles, and useable content.
Navigating Life: Helping Teens Build Resilience, Challenge Assumptions & Develop Healthy Relationships
May 13, 2021 | 1:00-2:00pm ET | Free | Virtual | Hosted by: Moving Traditions
Join Moving Traditions as we explore ways in which we can help teens become more resilient by thinking critically about the cultural messages they receive and by developing strong, healthy friendships. This session will be co-facilitated by Pamela Barkley, Rabbi Daniel Brenner and Stacy Shapiro designed for parents and youth professionals.
Youth Mental Health First Aid Training
Thursday, February 18, 2021 | 9:30am-3:30pm | FREE
4Front is excited to offer a FREE Youth Mental Health First Aid virtual training for Baltimore Youth Professionals this winter! Youth Mental Health First Aid is designed to teach caring adults how to help an adolescent (age 12-18) who is experiencing a mental health or addictions challenge or is in crisis.