NAWDP’s 26th Annual Youth Symposium agenda is based on the six learning tracks below:
- Rethinking Program Design and Innovation: This track will explore bold, forward-thinking approaches to program development. This track will highlight emerging models that are effective and replicable.
- Elevating Visionary Leadership: This track is designed for leaders at all levels who want to deepen their influence, foster inclusive team cultures, and drive systemic change.
- Transformative Career Coaching: This track dives deep into effective career coaching strategies that help young people build career confidence and take charge of their own paths.
- Serving Priority Populations: Youth from marginalized communities face unique barriers. This track focuses on strategies to create more equitable and impactful services for all.
- Bridging Education, Careers, and Industry: This track explores how to design career pathways aligned with in-demand industries, engage employers meaningfully, and ensure young people transition from training to tangible opportunity with the credentials they need.
- Preparing Gen Z and Gen Alpha for the Future of Work: This track examines how to connect with Gen Z and Gen Alpha to help prepare them for the future of work.
Schedule at a Glance
NAWDP has released a tentative schedule-at-a-glance which gives a full general overview of the event.
Full Schedule
Review the full tentative schedule for scheduled sessions and descriptions.
Schedule Highlights
Tuesday General Session
Leading In Times of Challenge
Donna Hay, President and CEO, National Job Corps Association (NJCA)
Leadership is rarely easy. It’s even more difficult when an organization and its constituents face serious challenges. How do you lead when the path is unclear and the obstacles are numerous? To whom do you listen and to whom do you speak? How do you know if the decisions you are making as the leader are the right ones?
This workshop will address these key leadership questions and others, with an emphasis on communication as a medium for information gathering, analysis, decision-making, growth, and direction. We’ll also explore the fact that some of the most important communication we do in times of crisis is not with others but with ourselves.
Workshop Session RFP
The collection period for workshop session proposals is closed.