Youth Development Network

YDN offers customized development solutions to Education, Business, and Government entities and organizations. They provide tailored services and programs that motivate participants, facilitate change implementation, and garner support from key staff and managers.Areas of Expertise:1.Strength-Based Development - Group Dynamics: YDN fosters positive engagement, collaboration, and personal growth within businesses, organizations, and youth programs. They focus on building well-rounded teams, leading with strengths, and maximizing youth potential.In their approach to strength-based development and group dynamics, the organization aims to establish a strong foundation of positive engagement, collaboration, and personal growth within businesses, organizations, and youth programs. By fostering a strengths-based mindset, they enable individuals and teams to flourish and accomplish their objectives. Through their dedication to a strength-based approach, the organization actively supports the growth and success of individuals and teams across various sectors, emphasizing collaboration, effective leadership, and the realization of potential.2.Youth Development - Youth Engagement - Organizational Development - Cultural Relevancy & Inclusion: YDN focuses on critical experiences for youth, group facilitation skills, youth engagement practices, optimal environments for youth leadership, organizational development support, and promoting cultural relevancy, inclusion, and diversity.They provide critical experiences for youth, creating optimal environments for their growth and development. Their facilitators work effectively with groups, fostering engagement and collaboration. They also encourage youth to take on responsibility and leadership roles, offering training and support for successful collaboration. In addition, they provide organizational development support to elevate organizations to high functioning levels, with a focus on creating environments where youth thrive and succeed. The organization emphasizes human development by integrating youth development principles into their programs and fostering a transition from being seen as recipients of services to resources. They also offer workshops and sessions to promote cultural relevancy, inclusion, and diversity, encouraging a shift in thinking and the provision of supports for optimal development for all employees.Core services include:1. Training Workshops: YDN's dynamic workshops cultivate an asset-based development mindset in participants. They provide practical tools and renewed energy and purpose in their work and team engagement.2. Coaching, Consulting & Technical Assistance: YDN offers customized coaching and consulting services to support the implementation of new strategies across various sectors.4. Networking Events - Promoting Best Practices and Connecting Resources: YDN organizes events that promote collaboration, share best practices, and facilitate connections within the community.4. Direct Youth Leadership Programs: YDN facilitates high impact programs directly with youth, including leadership camps, youth engagement circles, student leadership programs, peer conflict mediation, and 21st-century skill-building programs.

Creciente Latinx Leadership Program (Formerly Nueva Epoca Career Development Program):In 2021, the Latinx leadership program Nueva Epoca was established under the umbrella of Youth Development Network (YDN). Cohort V was engaged in the program through 2023 and more than 70 graduates since the inception of the program are actively engaged, leveraging their knowledge, skills, and confidence in the economic and civic landscape of the Sacramento Region. The program was named Nueva Epoca to symbolize the world's transition into a new era post-Covid. Now that this new era is upon us, YDN is launching its 6th cohort of Fellows, class of 2024-2025, under a new identity, Creciente, which means growing or increasing, and symbolizes a rising wave of Latinx leaders fully equipped to tackle the challenges of the future.