Training & Technical Assistance (TTA)

Explore how young people, families, and communities can effectively navigate and influence the youth legal system. This training examines advocacy at the individual, organizational, and systems levels, including court advocacy, policy change, alternatives to incarceration and probation, and strategies for elevating youth voice and action. Participants leave with practical tools for challenging harmful practices and advancing more equitable, community-centered approaches to achieve true youth justice.

Strengthen the skills needed to lead mission-driven organizations, programs, and teams through growth and change. This training explores leadership development, organizational culture, staff accountability, decision-making, communication, managing conflict, and building effective teams. Participants will examine practical strategies for leading with clarity while creating organizational structures that support both staff and the communities they serve.

Build a stronger approach to securing and sustaining funding for your organization or initiative. Participants learn how to identify funding opportunities, develop compelling proposals, communicate organizational impact, build relationships with funders, and create realistic program budgets. The training also explores how to move beyond individual grants toward a diversified fundraising strategy that supports long-term organizational sustainability.

An interactive training designed to help young people and communities understand their rights during encounters with law enforcement. Participants learn what to do when stopped, questioned, searched, detained, or arrested; the difference between consent and lawful police authority; and how to advocate for themselves while prioritizing their safety. The training uses realistic scenarios and accessible language to help young people and communities practice applying their rights in real-world situations.

Learn how to move beyond simply inviting young people to participate and instead create meaningful opportunities for youth leadership, decision-making, and influence. This training explores relationship building, authentic youth-adult partnerships, compensation, advisory structures, engagement strategies, and ways to incorporate youth voice into programs, policies, research, and organizational decision-making.

Explore a strengths-based approach to working with young people that focuses on their abilities, relationships, opportunities, and potential rather than defining them by challenges or system involvement. Participants learn practical strategies for building supportive relationships, fostering a sense of belonging, developing leadership and life skills, promoting healthy decision-making, and creating environments where young people can grow, contribute, and thrive.

A comprehensive technical assistance partnership designed to help state leaders assess, redesign, and implement meaningful changes across youth justice systems. YEAH Philly works alongside agencies, courts, policymakers, community organizations, and directly impacted young people to identify systemic barriers, review policies and practices, develop reform strategies, strengthen community-based alternatives, and support implementation. Engagements may include statewide assessments, stakeholder facilitation, policy and legislative analysis, youth and community engagement, implementation planning, training, and ongoing technical assistance to translate reform priorities into sustainable practice.