Youth MOVE
Change Initiative Past Events
Self-Care & Community Care
This workshop covers sustainable steps, tools, and methods for individual and community care. During this workshop, we will cover a variety of topics and issues, including burnout, vicarious and direct trauma, mindfulness, and boundary-setting. This workshop is helpful for organizations, schools, and businesses seeking tools and techniques to increase retention and empower clients, customers, patients, students, and employees.
LGBTQ+ 101
This workshop delves into identities, issues, and best practices for serving the LGBTQ+ community. LGBTQ+ is an acronym for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer community. The “+” makes this ever changing and growing acronym inclusive of additional identities and terminology related to one’s sex, gender, expression and/or attraction. This workshop is incredibly useful for organizations, schools, and businesses seeking terminology, tools, and techniques to support, empower, and retain LGBTQ+ clients, customers, patients, students, and employees.
Youth Summit
YMCI Youth Summit will be a gathering of LGBTQ+ and BIPOC young leaders from across the United States. Together we will develop call to actions to inform peer support movement. We are calling on youth across the states to acknowledge the work being done and the work that is still left to be done.
Youth Mental Health First Aid
EPIC’s interactive Ableism training will provide participants with a greater understanding of both disabilities and ableism. Topics covered include the medical vs social models of disability, exploring ableism and how this system of oppression affects our lives, work, and community, and first steps in beginning to address ableism and promoting the inclusion of people with disabilities.
Ableism 101
EPIC’s interactive Ableism training will provide participants with a greater understanding of both disabilities and ableism. Topics covered include the medical vs social models of disability, exploring ableism and how this system of oppression affects our lives, work, and community, and first steps in beginning to address ableism and promoting the inclusion of people with disabilities.