Google Hangout: Are you really listening?

Posted by America's Promise Alliance on October 20, 2014

Join us for a Google Hangout

Are you really listening?

For youth-serving organizations, community collaboratives, frontline providers, mentors and other youth supporters, keeping students in school and on-track may be a challenging endeavor without the benefit of having youth voice in the discussion. Through their voices, young people can help guide solutions and improve connections that help caring adults better understand how to meet their needs.

But what to do if all you get is a shrug of the shoulders?

Join us on Wed., October 28 at 3 p.m. ET for a Google+ Hangout with Craig McClay, youth engagement advisor for America’s Promise Alliance’s Center for Promise, on how to better listen to and connect with young people. As one of the lead interviewers for the Don’t Call Them Dropouts report, McClay will share some proven techniques for how to work with, and gain the trust of young people in your community. The live event will be recorded, and there will be an opportunity to ask questions.

Click here for more information on how to register and participate.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/google-hangout-are-you-really-listening-tickets-13699279915

About Craig McClay

Craig McClay is a research assistant and youth engagement advisor for the Center for Promise at Tuft’s University. A Baton Rouge, Louisiana native who moved to Boston, as a teenager in 1988, Craig began working young people in urban communities shortly after arriving in Boston. Throughout his career, he has recruited, engaged, trained, organized, supervised, hired, mentored and otherwise supported thousands of young people as they developed into dynamic leaders at home, in school and beyond. A life-long student in the art and science of group facilitation, Craig McClay’s dedication and passion for justice fuels his work to build communities that address issues and create pathways to access better and healthier opportunities and deliver resources for under-resourced communities.