Newish Jewish Professionals Institute

Are you a youth professional working with Jewish teens? Have you been working with teens between 2-4 years (full or part-time)? Would you benefit from learning and engaging in insights, practical skills, and best practices in areas pertinent to your work in the Jewish teen space. Then this cohort-based opportunity is for YOU!

•    Session 1: Professional skills: This session will focus on tools for successfully navigating challenging conversations with your supervisor, colleagues, parents, and teens.

•    Session 2: Youth engagement skills: This session will focus on building your relational engagement skills to deepen and expand your connection with teens.

•    Session 3: Jewish educational skills: This session will focus on ‘Jewing-up’ your programming through innovative programming ideas and a national Jewish education resource share.

•    Session 4: This session will focus on expanding the breadth of your program offerings by hearing about the innovative, engaging, and successful programming happening in Jewish teen spaces today.

This is a cohort-based program where participants will be encouraged to connect with each other with the goal of having long-term colleagues to learn with, support, and guide. This program includes four sessions. Participants are asked to commit to the full length of the program. All participants who successfully attend all four sessions will be entitled to a 1-hour one-on-one coaching session with Erica N. Hruby, M.A.