[ACT] Brown Bag Lunch Series

[Jared Liu]

Brown Bag Lunch Series

Live Online Event

Thursday, October 18, 2007
1:00- 2:00pm EDT

Session:  Organizing Workprograms for High School Students

Trainers: Amanda Benner, Executive Director, UC Green (Philadelphia, PA)
		   Kemba Shakur, Executive Director, Urban ReLeaf (Oakland, CA)

About the series:
The Brown Bag Lunch Series is a monthly webcast held at the lunch  
hour. The overall goal is to create informal training opportunities  
for local urban and community forestry organizations.

The series is geared to mainly serve the needs of volunteer  
organizations and community groups. While the webcasts are open to  
all, the content is most likely to be of interest to practitioners  
who work directly with the public, volunteers, or youth.

The trainings leverage local successes by amplifying to a larger  
audience the model organizations' methods, materials, and approaches.  
Sessions are planned to last no more than one hour, with two  
presenters speaking on the same topic from slightly different  
perspectives, each for 10-15 minutes, followed by 10-15 minutes of  
questions and answers.

The Brown Bag Lunch Series is made possible through support from:






Description:
High school workprograms are a great opportunity for youth leadership  
through environmental education and job training. The work teaches  
basic tree maintenance and landscaping skills including watering,  
weeding, mulching, some pruning, and cleanup, using shovels, rakes,  
buckets, hoses, and other hand tools, or the chance to hone math,  
science, and computer skills working with GIS data, statistical  
analysis, measuring storm water runoff and contaminants, and tree  
planting and maintenance.

Brown Bag attendees will learn:
Program goals and structure.
Daily logistics (including scheduling and wages).
Succeeding with youth workers.
Staying current with employment opportunities and workforce needs.
Engaging community support.
In May 2006, UC Green launched its new high school summer workforce  
program: UC Green Corps. The program provides sustainable seasonal  
maintenance to approximately 500 young trees a week. This program  
targets teenagers in West Philadelphia, a diverse urban neighborhood,  
and is developing environmental stewards of the future.

Urban ReLeaf provides school-year work opportunities for  
approximately 200 high school students a year. In particular, they  
work with at-risk teens from East and West Oakland. Through an  
innovative on-the-job training program that utilizes sophisticated  
equipment and computer programs to study the environmental benefits  
of trees, local youth learn not only important job skills as they  
plant and care for trees, but also math, science, and technology.  
Kemba founded Oakland ReLeaf, which is responsible for planting more  
than 8,000 trees in low-income communities through the East Bay.

Register for the webcast at:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=9Wx7EXDLUCSpAYyB0VWW3A_3d_3d


Next session: November 8, 2007- SmartGrowth and Urban Forestry


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