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NIWL 2020 Year In Review
This highlights the work and success of NIWL programming in 2020.
Compass Rose Collaborative Young Adult Leadership Council Information Sheet
Launched in 2019, the Young Adult Leadership Council is a key component of NIWL’s Compass Rose Collaborative, a young adult reentry program. This program combines the principles of youth-adult partnerships with reentry programming.
Workforce Development Overview (Coming Soon!)
This fact sheet profiles FHI 360’s National Institute for Work and Learning (NIWL) workforce development efforts.
Volunteer Tips: Engaging with Girls
Part of NIWL’s Volunteer Tips Series, Engaging with Girls provides youth navigators with tips and strategies for actively engaging girls in their learning. Explore about gender-sensitive learning environments, unconscious bias, unintended impact, the importance of role models, key classroos group-management strategies.
Volunteer Tips: Intro to Gender
Part of NIWL’s Volunteer Tip Series, Intro to Gender helps youth navigators (1) better understand the increasing diversity of the young people who may participate in this program, and (2) some of the deeper issues associated with gender and the broader effort to promote an inclusive and just society.
Volunteer Tips: Engaging Youth
Part of NIWL’s Volunteer Tips Series, Engaging Youth helps youth navigators prepare for, engage with, and inspire youths.
Volunteer Tips: Youth Brain Development
Part of NIWL’s Volunteer Tip Series, Youth Brain Development provides youth navigators with a basic overview and key concepts related to brain development. Understanding adolescent brain development provides important information for supporting young people as they navigate this period of development.
Volunteer Tips: STEM Messaging for Parents
Part of NIWL’s Volunteer Tip Series, STEM Messaging for Parents, outlines key messages that can be shared with parents, both to convince them of the value of STEM education and career options and to help them promote and maintain their child’s interest in STEM.
Live Event! Sparking Girls’ Interest in STEM²D Careers
Angela Shenton (Sr. Director, IT Procurement, Johnson & Johnson) and Lisa Johnson (Director, National Institute for Work and Learning, FHI360) co-hosted this STEM2D Live Event, which explored the importance of engaging and mentoring girls along STEM²D career paths. Brenda Okereke (Rutgers University School of Engineering student) and Gloria Candelario Hossri (J&J volunteer mentor) shared their […]