Capacity Building & Training
MBA builds capacity among youth service providers to integrate mindfulness and emotional intelligence approaches into their work. We train staff of youth-serving organizations to enhance their effectiveness in serving youth, and to facilitate stress reduction and the development of emotional competence. We can customize trainings for the specific needs of an organization, addressing any of a wide variety of aspects of mindfulness, emotion regulation, well-being, and working with highly at-risk youth. For workshop rates, or with questions about receiving trainings for your organization, please email us at info@mbaproject.org.
Highlights of recent training work include a partnership with the Edgewood Center for Children & Families, San Francisco’s largest direct service nonprofit, on a series of workshops for youth service providers from over 20 different Bay Area agencies. The workshops were geared toward non-clinicians, especially those working with at-risk, gang-involved youth in vocational training, afterschool and community center contexts. The training provided this community with a toolkit to manage their own stress, anxiety and secondary trauma, along with strategies to applying these tools directly to their interactions with youth.
In 2011, pending federal funding from the Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquent Prevention, MBA will offer two weekend mindfulness retreats as well as monthly, three-hour mindfulness-training sessions to a group of 30 young adult mentors working with at-risk youth in East Oakland. The mentors are part of the East Bay Asian Youth Center’s mentorship program.
