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Upcoming Webinars
Webinars and audioconferences from the Ready by 21 National Partnership that offer introductory and in-depth information as well as examples.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm
To really change the odds for children and youth, your community needs the involvement of its influential leaders from all sectors. That includes education, business, government, nonprofits and families. “Involvement” goes beyond signing up and saying “Call me when you want something.”
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Conceiving goals and indicators is easy. The challenge is getting community leaders to agree on goals and indicators that cover all young people of all age groups, in all aspects of their lives – from education and health to interpersonal skills and job readiness.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Data-sharing. It’s an important topic, given the myriad of systems and software that house information about our communities.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Do you ever feel like well-intentioned people around you are working hard but, to borrow a cliché, it looks like the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing?
Tuesday, June 26, 2012 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm
A well-done action plan is more than a blueprint for workers. Leaders use these plans as calls to action, generating community excitement and rallying key players – from youth and families to business and philanthropic leaders – around the cause. We’ll share a checklist on key Ready by 21 ideas and how they can be included in any action plan, whether you are just getting started or revisiting an established plan.
Tuesday, August 28, 2012 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm
With various people and organizations playing unique roles in your community – focusing on particular issues, populations and geographic areas – someone needs to keep an eye on the big picture, connect the work of those groups and make sure there are no gaps. That’s why every successful Ready by 21 state or community has an overarching leadership council.
Tuesday, September 25, 2012 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Ambitious leaders with big plans sometimes give people TMI: Too Much Information. Hand out a list of indicators about child and youth outcomes, or a list of goals to develop community supports for youth, and you risk creating communications overload. Key communications tools, such as storytelling and visuals, can help keep your stakeholders and community on the mark and moving forward. Learn more about these tools and how leaders have used them effectively in this webinar.
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm
In times of funding cuts or a crisis involving youth and youth services, you can count on this: Loud voices will demand better supports for young people. That’s laudable. But demanding higher quality supports for young people should not be relegated to crises. To achieve long-term, systemic change, that demand has to become part of the norm. We’ll explore ways to advocate for improved outcomes for youth from our Ready by 21 Partner, SparkAction.
Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm
If your community is like most, it already has lots of partnerships in place: partnerships with their own websites, logos, mission statements and memorandums of understanding. These partnerships can be an enormous asset – if you can organize them into a coherent patchwork that meets the needs of the whole child and the whole community. In this webinar, we’ll explore one tool for gathering information about the various active groups in your community and discuss how this data can help you advance your efforts.
Tuesday, December 18, 2012 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Raising ready children and youth requires a steady stream of supports from the full community to ensure that young people are not only problem-free, but also fully prepared and fully engaged. We’ll discuss what leaders can do to identify performance measures to ensure that young people are receiving adequate supports across the systems and settings where they spend their time, as well as how to establish a system of accountability to measure progress.