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This is a part-time position of up to 15 hours per week. The meeting days and time with the teens are Wed. & Thursday from 3-6pm. Interested candidates MUST be available these two days/times. There is also approximately 5 hours of weekly preparation, meetings, etc. included in these 15 hours, which can be flexible. Fab Youth Philly provides paid time off for PT employees following a 90-day probationary period.

Previous experience working with teens in an afterschool job setting is required.

Hourly rate $20 and is contingent upon availability of funding. There will be a period of paid training for the Supervisor. All employees are required to produce fingerprinting/ child abuse and criminal background clearances. If hired, people will become employees of Fab Youth Philly.

We are an organization that is working to apply a trauma informed lens to all of the work we do and working to dismantle and avoid perpetrating white-supremacist culture.

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In Philadelphia every summer, there are over 500 streets designated as “Play Streets”, run by Parks & Recreation. The Play Streets are streets that are closed off to traffic where neighborhood children can receive a free meal and play together. To make those Play Streets more playful, in 2017, Fab Youth Philly created the Play Captain Initiative (www.playcaptains.com), which is a leadership and civic-engagement strategy designed to train and empower teens to make the Play Streets and neighborhoods of Philadelphia more playful. Those teens create and facilitate play activities on several Play Streets throughout Philadelphia as a five-week long summer job.

With support from Drexel University Promise Neighborhood, Fab Youth Philly expanded the Play Captain Initiative into an afterschool job and places the Play Captains at early childhood centers in the Promise Neighborhood of West Philadelphia in partnership with West Philadelphia Action for Early Learning. The Group Leader is responsible for supporting a team of 2-3 Play Captains at afterschool programs on Wednesdays and Thursdays, as well as assisting with weekly Professional Development on Tuesdays. The afterschool programs will be located in 3 centers located in the West Philly Promise Neighborhood (19104).

The Afterschool Play Captain Group Leader supports teams of Play Captains (up to 5 teens per center) at the Early Childhood Centers (up to 2 centers per Group Leader) to effectively do their job. They also help plan and/or participate in weekly professional development activities for the Play Captains.

This is a part-time position of up to 18 hours per week. Interested candidates MUST be available the following days and times: Tues, Wed & Thursdays 2:30-6pm. Fab Youth Philly provides paid time off for PT employees following a 90-day probationary period. There will be a period of paid training for the Group Leaders. All employees are required to produce fingerprinting/ child abuse and criminal background clearances. If hired, people will become employees of Fab Youth Philly. Previous experience working with teens in an afterschool job setting is required.

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When: Wednesday, Sep. 25th, 5:30-7pm

Where: 5325 Overbrook Avenue, Philadelphia, PA

This event is open to the general public. Preregistration is encouraged.

The founders and organizers Boys Write Now and Girls On Fire (Peggy Savage) are proud to continue our “Black Men Read” Book Group. This book group targets black men for the purpose of highlighting and modeling the love of reading by black men.

The group expects to attract 15 participants but will limit the group to 25 attendees. We plan to attract teen and diverse a range of readers to ensure intergenerational discourse and lively conversations.

Book to read: Freakonomics, A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. The authors reveal how Conventional wisdom can often be wrong.

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Date: Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019
Time: 10am to 4pm
Location: Aviator Park, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy

• Confirm that you’re available on this date and want to join us!
• Preference to work Shift A (8:30am-1pm), Shift B (12:30pm-5:00pm), or both.
• If you have a favorite MW staffer or volunteer you’d like to work with, let us know!
• After you RSVP, stay tuned for your assignment & further details.

Resumes to kmarell@pec-cares.org

JOB DESCRIPTION

Summary:
The Out of School Time and Youth Programs Coordinator creates, implements and oversees all developmental and out of school time activities for school age youth, grades K-12, as well as youth in PEC’s transitional housing.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership for the Afterschool Program
• Develop and implement all out of school enrichment activities for participants
• Establish and maintain communication with school district personnel regarding student needs
• Assist parents, as needed, in interfacing with school district personnel
• Establish and maintain partnerships with local community based organizations, area colleges, universities and collaborators.
• Based on best practice model(s):
• Assist youth with life skills development programming
• Develop and implement age appropriate activities for youth in PEC’s transitional housing program
• Monitor student progress and needs, as appropriate
• Initiate and maintain regular communication with parents/guardians regarding student progress
• Meet with parents and case management staff, monthly to discuss student progress
• Organize, and assist, in the development of parent involvement activities
• Provide oral and written reports regarding program participants to CPECE Program Mgr, Case Managers and parents
• Maintain accurate and up to date attendance and afterschool program records
• Monitor Afterschool Program volunteers

Competencies:

• Working knowledge of effective methods of managing and promoting positive behaviors in children
• Oral and Written Communications
• Initiative
• Reliability
• Composure
• Relationship Building
• Team Skills

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Education, Social Work or related discipline
• Demonstrated involvement and commitment to youth
• Understanding of children’s developmental ages and stages
• Experience (volunteer/paid) working with children, ages 5-14
• Experience working with “at risk” youth populations
• Demonstrate knowledge of workshop activities and
• Experience teaching enrichment context to children and youth

Preferred Education and Experience:

• Master’s Degree in Early Childhood Education

Additional Eligibility Qualifications:

• Demonstrated involvement and commitment to youth
• Understanding of children’s developmental ages and stages
• Knowledge of the complexity of poverty and women’s homelessness, mental illness, trauma, substance abuse and the impact on children.
• Experience working with youth, in school based afterschool programs

Work Environment:This job operates in an office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, talk and hear. The employee is occasionally required to walk, use hands and fingers to feel, handle, or operate objects or controls; and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds.

Other Duties: This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Requirements for volunteering include: Bachelor’s degree, ability to pass background checks, Child Abuse Clearances and FBI check.  If interested, please contact: gsmalls@temple.edu.

July 2019 … Finding connections among people, birds, trees, gardens, and parks are among the ways 10 Philadelphia-area health leaders say they’re working to make our communities healthier and safer. Their stories are told in Leading Healthy Change In Our Communities 2019, the ninth book in the Healthy NewsWorks series on health leadership.

This book includes interviews and illustrations by more than 120 Philadelphia-area elementary and middle school students who participated in the Healthy NewsWorks student media program during the 2018–19 school year. They were among the 340 students who participated in our Core Reporting Program in Grades 3–8 this year.

Our Hearty Kids program, which works to make heart health information accessible to K–2 students, engaged nearly 390 young reporters. Healthy NewsWorks also completed special classroom visits involving 600 additional students.

Here is a link to an article about the book: https://healthynewsworks.org/2019/06/02/students-shine-at-book-launch/

Featuring concrete insights from 55 amazing leaders, and updated to reflect the digital age in which we now find ourselves, the contributors to this “owner’s manual for nonprofit professionals at all levels” includes helpful insights from Van Jones, Kay Sprinkel Grace, Lynne Twist, Joan Garry, and other marquee names.

The book gathers a wealth of actionable, high-value practices across seven major nonprofit management disciplines, including strategy, operations, law and finance, fundraising, and technology. Experience a free sample chapter on fundraising events here.

Making change is hard; but with these leaders and their ideas at your fingertips, it might get a little easier.

Take the first step in maximizing your impact, and click here to explore the second edition of Nonprofit Management 101 today!

The sessions will include: Project Based Learning, Team, Community and Group mentoring; where the youth will be paired with two to four mentors in groups/teams, once a week for two hours. Mentors will also be asked to dedicate some time future trips, outings. Guest speakers and presenters will be encouraged to volunteer. The Leaders In Training Sports Mentoring Program is currently seeking businesses, institutions and community based organizations to partner with in the hopes of spreading our vision and recruiting mentors. We know that with the help of the community, our program can be a Philadelphia success and we together can reach hundreds of youth and save their futures. Our key components include Mass Communication, Sport Journalism, Sport Administration/Management and Career Workforce.

We are currently formalizing partnership agreements with Lincoln University, Temple’s Cradle to the Grave Program, the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists (some members), and SwiftFit and Level 40 Training, Inc.; two personal training entities geared toward training Philadelphia area high school, collegiate and professional athletes. Our next partnership is with Drexel University’s Lindy Center of Civic Engagement and Temple University (we’re hoping) Department of Sport, Tourism and Hospitality. Our site will be the West Oak Lane Library, located in the Northwest Philadelphia section. 

If you are interested in becoming a mentee/mentor or partner with The Leaders In Training Mentoring Program or if you would like more information regarding the program, please contact Eugene Pough, Program Director at 267-377-3471 or at eugene.pough@litsports.org.

Join Dr. Thomas Fekete, Department Chair of Temple School of Medicine, as he answers all of your questions about the contemporary state of immunology and vaccines. Come prepared with all of your questions about the Flu, vaccinations and everything in between because he will be answering them LIVE!

Click here to register for the webinar.

We are excited to offer a few students the opportunity to work closely within the City Council of Philadelphia throughout the 2019-20 school year. This internship will expose interns to Council office operations including policy and legislation, communications, outreach, and research.

As an office, we are passionate about equity, economic justice, public education, juvenile justice reform and many other issues involving children and youth in Philadelphia. LGBTQ+ students, students of color, and/or have ties to Philadelphia, and/or attended Philadelphia public schools and universities, and/or have had prior community organizing experience are strongly encouraged to apply.

Qualifications:
– Currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program at a university in the Philadelphia Area
– Ability to commit to part-time (8-16 hours/week)
– Strong communication skills
– Strong writing skills
– Ability to keep up with a fast paced environment
– Ability to complete work without constant direction and structure
– Have general work experience

We prefer students who can receive work study funding or course credit through this internship.

To apply please fill out this survey, AND send a copy of your resume with cover letter.

Priority deadline is Friday, August 30 at 12 pm but application are accepted on a rolling basis until positions are filled. Due to limited capacity, only short listed candidates will be contacted.

Please contact Councilmember Gym’s staffer Bach at bach.tong@phila.gov with any question.

LGBTQ+ students, students of color, and/or have ties to Philadelphia, and/or attended Philadelphia public schools and universities, and/or have had prior community organizing experience are strongly encouraged to apply.

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OPENING CONFERENCE
Fri. September 20, 2019
9:00 am-5:30 pm
Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics, 133 S. 36th Street
Auditorium (Basement)

Please register here.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reverberations-of-inequality-opening-conference-tickets-68523047279

PANEL 1 – 9:00 AM / HEALTH AND INEQUALITY
Chloe E. Bird (RAND Corporation)
Elaine Hernandez (Indiana University Bloomington)
Bruce Link (University of California, Riverside)

PANEL 2 – 11 :30 AM / BARRIERS TO MOBILITY
Sam Friedman (London School of Economics)
Michael Kraus (Yale University)
Karolyn Tyson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

KEYNOTE ADDRESS – 1 :30 PM
RAJ CHETTY (Harvard University)

PANEL 3 – 3:20 PM / POLICY RESPONSES TO INEQUALITY
David Daley (Activist and author of Ratf**ked)
Susan Dynarski (University of Michigan)
Brishen Rogers (Temple University)

This is a senior leadership position for an entrepreneurial and highly collaborative education specialist who will work within the regional ecosystem of early learning initiatives, setting strategy, building regional partnerships with early learning providers focused on poverty reduction, and assessing impact.

This position will report to the Chief Strategy Officer and will collaborate with the following senior colleagues: Managing Director, Civic Engagement; Managing Director, Financial Empowerment; Managing Director, Capacity Building; and Managing Director, Employment Opportunities & Entrepreneurship.

Click HERE if interested.

https://www.ziprecruiter.com/jobs/united-way-of-greater-philadelphia-southern-new-jersey-6884df58/managing-director-early-learning-9b501087

Join community leaders from various Mid-Atlantic chapters of the national campaign for Grade-level Reading to problem solve, share best practices, network, and more!

More details HERE.

https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07egj6utbl1ce90849&oseq=&c=&ch=

Celebrate books and literacy with food, live music, activities, readings by local authors, and giveaways to send our students back to school in style.

Meet and greet local authors like Brittney Shipp (of NBC 10), author of “The Meteorologist in Me,” and Peter Brown, author of “The Wild Robot” series.

Experience the biggest book swap the city has ever seen and more at Tree House Books annual Philadelphia Literacy Day!

More details HERE.

http://www.treehousebooks.org/philadelphia-literacy-day-1