How to advocate for what you need

Walk through of process to engage community change through policy

Also understand legislative process

Reccomended Facilitator: Tom Begich

Looking at impacts of technology on youth mental health

How to avoid, deal, and recover from burnout

Alternative: Everyone bring in a resource or tool that their team uses effectively

Recommended facilitator: local mental health provider?

How to have difficult conversations with youth with integrity and healthy boundaries

Hearing more youth perspectives

Perhaps recipients of youth matter grants could share with AYDC what they are concerned about, focus on, and their project.

I would also love for adults serving youth to learn how to take care of themselves - how to avoid burnout in order to support youth better.

+1 Avoid burnout

+1 Avoid burnout

How to avoid, deal, and recover from burnout; Alternative: Everyone bring in a resource or tool that their team uses effectively; Recommended facilitator: local mental health provider?

Emotional Regulation Tools, for youth and adults. This can help with burnout

+1 Burnout for folks working in non profits and other social service organizations

Absolutely agree with Claire, roundtable sounds intriguing. We often meet in coalition meetings and share about our work and updates, but it would be great to hear about how we deal with the stress of working in non-profits and youth serving organizations.

Staff/Adult Burnout

No More Burnout -professionals to reflect on the signs of burnout, share real talk about compassion fatigue, and explore practices to protect their passion while working with youth. Have no idea who could facilitate it at the moment.

I chose something similar, but didn't have a sentence to describe it. Here is what I came up with: Burnt out: Feeling burnt? Join this round table for some refreshing discussion on ...Millie

I would love to know more about funding connections in the area. What orgs need partners for grants, etc?

+1 And the funding collaborations, I think sometimes nonprofits think they're competing, but where are there opportunities to find the gaps and, seek additional outside funding.

funding collaboration-- opportunities to fund the gaps

Peer Roundtable: Funding Gaps and Collaborations

how to support youth when funding cuts is impacting services that they are recipients of (examples social security, Medicare/Medicaid and youth development programs) and it's impacting their own mental health

Roundtable discussion: How to handle funding fear? News of funding cuts spreas and how to discuss with youth and staff

How do we have these conversations with them in a way that is both acknowledging that, yes, it's problematic and honoring the feelings they have in there, but also, like, we're not we're not at apocalypse level yet. But they're I'm seeing a lot of youth talk about apocalypse level. How do we help them navigate that?

How to have difficult conversations with youth with integrity and healthy boundaries

youth online communication (differnet emojis). For example youth slang that provides context to comments. That can be conveying some information about safety and relationships.

Online Safety? No witty title haha and we can come up with description, but the more adults are aware of online safety needs the safer the kids we work with will be - this is something I could help facilitate

I just was thinking online safety because the more we are educated as people working on and supporting youth on what actually is happening online, the exploitation that youth are experiencing, the grooming that they're experiencing, the more that we can be supportive of them in those environments.

How to support youth who's families are being detained by ICE

How to work with Students with Special Needs in Different Capacities

Cultural awareness and how to support adults

Cultural Awareness- Alaska Humanities Forum. Julie Rowland, Former AYDC

creating opportunities to connect with youth personally and about their experiences

Identifying youth issues. Hearing more youth perspectives. Perhaps recipients of youth matter grants could share with AYDC what they are concerned about, focus on, and their project.

ai and how to navigate that

How to reengage youth in the outdoors in the digital era

Learning & Knowledge Sharing - The educational aspect and staying updated on community programs

Spotlight Presentations - These seem to be particularly popular and engaging

Relationship Building & Networking - The human connections and resource linking opportunities

Meeting Structure & Format - Appreciation for good organization and hybrid meeting management

Meeting Location & Site Visits - Value in both consistent venues and occasional field trips

Meeting Structure & Format - Ideas about timing, agenda distribution, and creating clear segments

• Announcements & Updates - Moving announcements to the beginning and incorporating organizational updates into check-ins

• Technology Integration - Using Knack sign-in system for AYDC Overview and Padlet more effectively throughout the meeting

• Shifting to mission moments

Advocacy & Collaboration - Building advocacy priorities and interagency support

Networking & Connection Building - Creating structured opportunities for members to connect, especially for new members at the beginning of the year