ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT & EMPLOYMENT

A hands-on session putting the goals and values of YMCA sport into practise and developing new sport activities.

In 2015, the UN General Assembly presented 17 goals in creating worldwide sustainable development. In true testament to the growing trend of social sustainability on a global economic scale, these goals have been adopted by countless countries, organizations, and individuals alike. This session will introduce these opportunities and the role the YMCA as a civil organization plays in this future. Participants will leave with an awareness of current trends in global social sustainability, an understanding of broad intergenerational differences, and tools on how to best utilize these in achieving success on a local scale through the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

hands-on session putting the goals and values of YMCA sport into practise and developing new sport activities.

Using applied behavioural science (or nudge theory) learn how you can deliver the most effective evidence based intervention for your clients at the right time, every time, in a cost effective and truly scalable way. We’ll explain how the Esher model helps you with your employability, apprenticeship, learning and other community programs using examples from our work with YMCA Scotland and understand why timing interventions to an individual’s genuine readiness to change, can greatly increase outcomes. We will explain how this model helps you win public contracts, improves the return on investment for your YMCA, achieves incredible social outcomes and creates a solid evidence base for your work.

Are you talented, ambitious and eager to make a difference, yet struggling to find ways how to accelerate your career? Do you want to create new opportunities and a meaningful life with a positive impact? How can you live a life by design and not by default, even if the odds seem to be stacked against you? If you’re ready to break through the constraints that you’re seemingly confined to, this is your chance to learn how to do it! What you will discover:

• Crucial Skills To Fast-Track Your Career
• How To Attract Opportunities Instead Of Chasing Them
• What Has Been Holding You Back From Achieving Your Potential And Earning Your True Worth
• What You Need To Work On Today To Be Successful Tomorrow
• … and more!

This event is for you if you are:

• Serious about taking your career to the next level
• Committed to pursue what you truly love to do and are passionate about
• Willing to take action towards living life on your own terms.                                                                         

We highly appreciate your time and dedicate our best knowledge to people who are invested in themselves and take their lives seriously. Make sure to register for the event because seating is limited!

Participants will hear from Youth themselves on their journey to leadership in a Youth Development program and their connections to the corporate and greater community through their skills in technology and storytelling. Snoop Dogg video included!

We know that within the topics of civic engagement, health, environment and economic empowerment there is much more to highlight and discuss. Come, voice and discuss an issue you are passionate about with your colleagues. Think and plan what you can do about it together.

hands-on session putting the goals and values of YMCA sport into practise and developing new sport activities.

Hear about YMCA Victoria is training young people to create and run their own social enterprises. If you’re new to the world of social entrepreneurs or interested in developing social enterprise programs in your YMCA, this is the session for you.

Learn what social enterprise is, and discover how it’s empowering young people to make real impact in their communities and in their own lives. Understand the difference between social enterprise and community projects, or traditional business, as well how to get started, and how to avoid some of the common mistakes in this area.

Theoretical and Practical understanding of power spaces and how it is used in the African YMCAs to educate young people how to improve their livelihoods through small, yet impactful income generating initiatives.

Linking identity to potential and connecting to opportunities to drive economic improvement in simple ways while establishing the worth of young people and how they can use innovation to improve their lifestyles and further educate and sustain themselves.

This workshop will challenge us to define and develop our personal strategy for wellbeing, and our leadership and personal culture and behaviours. We will explore how those should align and work together to ensure our greater effectiveness for ourselves but also to help others grow and develop.

We will also consider and apply this idea of aligning our strategy and leadership and culture into our YMCAs and other organisations to ensure greater mission and economic success. This workshop will include group work, sharing and examples of good practice to learn and share together.

Theoretical and Practical understanding of power spaces and how it is used in the African YMCAs to educate young people how to improve their livelihoods through small, yet impactful income generating initiatives.

Linking identity to potential and connecting to opportunities to drive economic improvement in simple ways while establishing the worth of young people and how they can use innovation to improve their lifestyles and further educate and sustain themselves.

Career trajectories used to be so simple. Pick a job, figure out what course you need to study or training you need to get under your belt, graduate, get a job and work your way up the industry food chain. People used to spend years, decades even in the same jobs – do the miles, get the gold watch and then retire.

Since 2015, the Foundation for Young Australians (FYA) has released its New Work Order report series, which shows that we’re facing the most significant disruption to the world of work since the industrial revolution. Globalisation and automation have radically altered where, what and how young people are working.

In this new, dynamic world of work, these traditional, linear pathways to work are less common. So as a young person how do you equip yourself with the right skills to be successful in such an uncertain future? It begins with changing the way we think about our working lives – from ‘jobs’ to ‘skills’.