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Second Wednesday Webinar
May 8, 2024
Centering Youth Voice Using Peer Facilitators in Relationship Education to Engage and Empower Youth
Join Kelley Luckett and Daiya Thompson of the Louisville YMCA as they discuss lessons learned over the last two years of implementing Love Notes in Teen Vibe Camps using peer facilitators.
Teen Vibe Camps, offer a transformative blend of summer camp nostalgia and comprehensive curriculum sessions. Through activities like podcasting, music, and social media graphics, these camps foster a sense of community and belonging. Complementing this approach is an innovative Peer Facilitator model, which introduces youth as Love Notes facilitators.
Presenter: Kelley Luckett; Senior Director of Community Integrated Health, Louisville YMCA & Daiya Thompson; Love Notes Peer Facilitator
Dibble’s Participant Materials Now in Spanish!
The Dibble Institute is pleased to provide Spanish translations of all our participant materials to better help you serve more young people.
UP YOUR GAME! ESSENTIAL SKILLS FOR GREAT FACILITATORS TRAINING
Join Scott Roby from Public Strategies for “Up Your Game! Essential Skills for Great Facilitators” a dynamic 1.5-day professional development training in Oklahoma City on June 26 and 27.
Scott will help you elevate your teams’ facilitation process, captivate both youth and adult participants, enhance engagement, and maximize learning outcomes.
Register at the NARME website for the June training. (Training registration is fourth from the bottom)
Romance Matters: The Role of Dating in Adolescents’ Friendship Beginnings and Endings
This study examines the influence of romantic relationships on the formation and dissolution of adolescent friendships with a longitudinal network sample from age 14 to 15. Using a dynamic, network statistical model, they found that engagement in a romantic relationship shaped friendship homophily over time, with daters becoming friends with other daters, and singles forming friendships with other singles. Partnered adolescents were not more likely than those who were unattached to dissolve their friendships; however, they were significantly less prone to form new friendships over time.
Healthy Relationships for Younger Teens
Dibble works with younger teens to teach them healthy relationship skills early in their lives.
Healthy Relationships for Older Teens & Young Adults
Dibble’s materials teach teens and young adults how to be successful in friendships, dating, and love.