Burn In Not Out: Youth Empowerment Program & Professional Development Training This uniquely intentional Youth Empowerment Program & Staff Development Training provides interactive tools and practical strategies that encourage organizations, educators, administrators, and youth-led communities to lead with a higher degree of enthusiasm and authenticity.

Target Audience: The Youth Empowerment Through Workforce & Professional Development Training is designed for but not limited to:

• Positive Community Action & Advocacy Groups:those that lobby or address social & economic issues
• Peer Educators: those open to learning & teaching a shared-mentorship model
• Service-Learners: those that love academic learning and taking it to the streets
• Youth-Led Participatory Research Groups:youth that work with supportive adults on issues they care about
• Youth Advisory Boards & Councils: governing clubs of entrepreneurship, leadership & workforce development

Objective: Making room for all youth at the table, fostering passionate collaborations and developing a shared-mentorship model to Burn IN with Passion and not OUT by the Work!

Outcomes: We providing (4) four essential programmatic frameworks and toolkits that fosters youth-led programming propeling full potential.

1. Developing an Authentic Program Culture
2. Checking Your ‘isms
3. Transformational Programming Through Meaningful Partnerships
4. Epiphany Leadership

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STEAM ACADEMY: Coding Lego Machines & Robotics Professional Development (PD) program is designed to blend professional growth with an element of fun and self-care. Perfect for K-12 professionals, this hands-on workshop offers attendees the chance to explore STEM education tools while enjoying an engaging and collaborative environment. Participants will not only gain valuable skills but also keep the Lego-compatible kits for continued exploration, ensuring long-term impact and adaptability in their educational practices.

Key Features:

• Interactive Learning: Dive into exciting topics like Python coding, Lego robotics, and Micro:Bit-based projects.
• Professional Self-Care: Balance skill-building with enjoyment through activities like the Lunch, Build, & Code competition.
• Versatile Training Options: Full-day (6 hours), half-day (4 hours), and multi-day boot camp formats available to fit your schedule.
• Sample Focus Topics: Epiphany Leadership, Data Science, Machine Learning & AI, Fostering Collaboration, Coding Lego Machines & Robotics, and more!

Join us for a transformative experience that equips educators with cutting-edge STEM tools, enriches their teaching methodologies, and provides a refreshing approach to professional self-care.

The Soap-Making Soirée You Provide the Sip. We Provide the Soap. Offers a day of chemistry, creativity and fun by using hands-on experience crafting your own unique self-care travel soap kits. During this in-person event participants enjoy making travel size Foam Hand Soap, Hand Sanitizer, Bath Bombs, Vapor Shower Steamers and Feet & Hand Salt Scrubs. All travel sizes to step up their self-care game, learn to save money and do away with using that hot-pink mystery soap in public bathrooms!

Perfect for:

• Parent/Family/Community Engagement
• Fundraisers
• STEAM /Chemistry Clubs
• Self-Care Workshops

The Coding Lego Machines & Robotics Program offers engaging sessions for beginner and intermediate learners. Participants will learn Python, Block, or JavaScript coding while building functioning machines with Lego-compatible kits and Micro:Bit devices. Each session includes hands-on coding, machine construction, and discussions about related careers, fostering creativity and problem-solving. At the end of the program, students may earn a certificate of completion and take-home a microbit kit for continued exploration.

MISSION: To sew together the obvious threads of measurement, geometry, and fashion with the seams of sustainability, entrepreneurship, and philanthropy. By fostering human development, the program reminds our hands and hearts of how sewing can bridge the gap for those who struggle with math concepts. It creates opportunities for building businesses, establishing creative safe spaces, and ensuring the arts are a reliable source of both inspiration and economic support for their ideas.

VISION: To inspire creativity and innovation through repurposing and upcycling, weaving together precision, algebraic sequencing, and garment construction. By integrating STEAM, entrepreneurship, and philanthropy, the program showcases how math, creativity, and talent can come together to build a sustainable future.

OBJECTIVE: To spark the gift of envisioning and designing prototypes, a business plan and an artistic workforce development culture that gives a lifelong productive outlet, builds self-confidence, workforce skills and the discovery of multiple strategies that develop careers.

• Simply put, The Hem Lab program uses experiential learning. The sessions consist of action, failing and reflection and often helps individuals understand concepts and skills more than if the same meaning was presented in a lecture format. It includes a fashion show with diverse networking opportunities and potential for equitable resources currently available to the market.

Safe Speech Creative Writing Sessions is used as a prevention and early intervention therapeutic support group. Like Let's Write Out Loud, it aids with the implementation of the Federal Common Core State Standards focusing on English and Language Arts but also focuses on the mental health stigmas of depression and looks into the connotations of positive and negative lyrics and images of hip-hop music and its influences.

This program has been funded by the Riverside Department of Mental Health via the "Cup of Happy" program at Operation SafeHouse in Riverside, CA. The "Cup of Happy" program offers prevention and early intervention efforts prior to a diagnosis for mental illness, promoting emotional wellness for youth and young adults 16-25. Using our "Safe Speech Creative Writing Sessions", youth learn to express themselves through writing, as a therapeutic processing tool, to gradually ease feelings of emotional trauma.

Get a Taste of the Makerspace! A creative and tasty artistic space where collaboration and sharing of brilliant ideas in an educational cafe setting will start to brew. These communal casual settings will promote engaging conversations around relatable topics while exploring and creating everyday household or industrial style new projects or improving or rebuilding STEAM or artistic projects that might already exist.

Taste of the Makerspace represents a grassroot movement where all participants feel encouraged to participate in a shared-mentorship model. These conversations and activities will highlight and provide systemic building tools for those that desire fresh connectedness, support, resources, and building new and fresh programmatic habits and cultures.

Taste of the Makerspace is designed to provide students opportunities to identify as Makers.

The Radical Remnant Writer 5 Poetic Books of the Bible Series & Holy Hip-Hop Summit
The role of the remnant of His people throughout scripture, is to be vessels through whom God can work out His plan of redemption in the earth. The remnant is peculiar as they are called from within the fold to faithfully live out the divine nature. Whereas, ministers of the gospel are called out, the remnant of His people are from within. They are obedient witnesses of the holiness of God.

Radicals, if they really are genuinely radical, have a common thread—they actually believe their commitments. This leads to both inspiration for some and isolation for others, but almost always moves to action of some kind. Studying these books year after year with a commitment group of individuals of this kind, from different parts of the world, gives us a chance to identify and analyze the influences hip-hop has on its Christian listeners in the forms of substance abuse, and peer pressure on a biblical, personal, and community level. It also prepares our hearts to learn and prepare for the much anticipated annual Holy Hip-Hop Summits. These bicoastal faith-based summit retreats give individuals, 8-year-olds and their families, an opportunity to participate in a lifetime enriching creative writing experience that includes character building, engaging conversations and biblical and artistic activities that focus on the character and heart of man within those 5 Poetic Books.

The Media Minded Journalism Intern Program allows youth to gain knowledge and work experience in various vocations representing media, like journalism, television and radio. Students gain self-esteem, build social confidence and get involved in community organizing and policy change.

2024-2025: The Media Minded Journalism Internship Program will specifically focus on Chemistry in Color, using a holistic and creative approach to shine an educational microlens on chemistry, science, beauty products, physical and mental health, nutritional habits, fashion, branding, entrepreneurship, philanthropy and community service opportunities for youth of Color.

With partners like the Boys & Girls Club of San Bernardino, CA and the Carver Community Center in Norwalk, CT, Media Minded uses hip-hop as a tool to bring awareness and problem solving to youth. Media Minded received funding from ASML and the West End Youth Grantmakers, a youth-led philanthropist program where high school aged students participate in the grant selection process.

The Let's Write Out Loud Program

Helping People Fall In Love With Words! Our English-Language Arts literacy & hip-hop program incorporates hands-on, projected-based experiences providing students opportunities to see their original poems published in a book for their keepsake, enhance their writing skills to find their own voices and serve their community by mastering the art of public speaking with fun, like-minded and supportive groups.

With resources like The ‘1619 Project’, The New York Times Magazine’s award-winning materials by Nikole Hannah-Jones and the Pulitzer Center to guide age appropriate discussions, journalism, and creative writing sessions that explores and reframes history by exploring the legacy of slavery and racism in America, and how it has shaped society and culture today.

Designed to provide students opportunities to:

• Discover different styles of poetry & hip-hop styles
• Become proficient at identifying figurative language
• Identify the power of words through verbal influences
• Create and share their own work

Youth Photography Training is a mental health through the arts program that will develop and train youth in several genres of photography to include: Portraiture, Journalism, Editorial Storytelling and Post Processing of digital images. The encouraged creativity is underscored by the introduction of 'Photography-by-the-Numbers' -to infuse STEM opportunities that will allow students to visualize and apply algebra and calculus to make better photographs.

Youth Leadership Board The Hamilton Essentials Youth Leadership Board (YLB) is a bicoastal group of young leaders 8-18, who work together to develop and implement initiatives that promote youth leadership and community engagement. Through various campaigns and events, the YLB aims to empower young people and their families, while providing them with opportunities to develop their skills and make a positive impact and global in their communities.