Youth Assessments

IN-PERSON SESSION (SEATS ARE LIMITED)

 

DATES:05/02/2024
TIME: 10AM – 12PM

Location: DePaul University –
Chaddick Center, 14 E. Jackson, Chicago – 16th Floor

TRAINERS: Dr. Sherrod

TRAINER BIO: Dr. Sherrod

Dr. Jarmese Sherrod is the President/CEO and founder of Sherrod’s Independent Mentoring Program (S.I.M.P.), and SheWill Legacy NFP. She specializes in youth development, professional development, women’s empowerment, and selfless service and empowers in violence prevention, reentry, and international programming. Her 20-year legacy as a curriculum & instruction developer and professor has helped her advance students to their next level of greatness. Her legacy impact can be found in Macon and Cook County, Haiti, Germany, South Africa, and Puerto Rico, and each year she adds another country to start a selfless service project. Her recent proudest moments were earning a 2019 National Excellence Award, having Governor Pritzker announced her leadership, service, and philanthropy Youth Program as #1 in the State of Illinois for the 2020-2021 Governor’s Hometown Awards with over 100 Macon County high school students (10-12th grade) in 12 school districts and home school students (sponsored by a local foundation), and earning a 2023 Partnership of the Year with the Boys & Girls Club of Decatur. Dr. Sherrod leads by serving on boards for the SheWill Legacy, American Red Cross (International Team), and Chicago Youth Centers. She served as the Co-Chair of the Faculty Advisory Board to help make changes for students who attend Illinois institutions of higher learning in three areas: Institutional Support, Professional Development, and Pedagogy and Support and the Council for Advancing Standards for Higher Education. Her impact has inspired thousands of children, youth, and adults all over the world with the help of sponsorships and grants.

 

 Training Description

If My Voice Really Matters, Let Me Speak! Using Assessments to Take Youth Development to the Next Level. When leading in youth development, measuring a youth’s level of risk and needs can help adult leaders make early decisions on the level of care and attention needed to help track their progress and growth. In this workshop, participants will review different types of assessments to help determine what needs to be taught, how to teach it, and measure its effectiveness through diagnostic, summative, and formative assessments using qualitative and quantitative methods. Participants will also be given free leadership, personality, and career assessments to help youth determine their strengths and language needed for job/interviews, college and scholarship essays, and assist them with organizing team projects with limited conflict. Empowering youth to use their voices from inputs on surveys, feedback from group discussions, and assessments paints a clear picture of various levels of youth development: assessing their top priorities, issues related to programming, technology use, and more

Training Objectives

Review national standards of case management and evaluative methods

· Empower participants to assess the needs of those they serve through software or Excel templates

· Develop 2 goals and an action plan for their organization

· Create a community resource guide for the communities they serve within a 10-mile radius (developing the ABCs of helping people in need)

 

 

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