Blue Door Summit 2025

This is a 4 hour session, filling the 8:40-10:40 and 10:50-12:50 time slots.  You will get a 10 minute break.

Enhancing cultural competence and encouraging cultural humility is essential to increasing access and improving the standard of care for traumatized children, families, and communities. Cultural awareness, responsiveness, and understanding need to be infused at every level to be effective in addressing the needs of those who have experienced trauma. With both presentation and group interaction, participants will identify forces that contribute to behaviors that build or deccrease emotional health in individuals and systems.

This is a 4 hour session, filling the 10:50-12:50 and 2:10-4:10 time slots.  You will break for lunch from 12:50-2:00

In this engaging workshop, participants will have an opportunity to explore their own current practice, evaluate what is working and what is not, and develop an explicit framework for building and strengthening a sense of connection and community in the classroom; the critical factor that ties together best-practice in all classroom management strategies. Through hands-on exercises specifically designed to foster self-reflection and exploration in practical, real-life situations, participants will take away tangible tools to help them exercise their authority in a manager that proactively builds community, effectively responds to disruptive behavior and creates a classroom culture that feels safe and is conductive to learning. The connection between teaching-style and impact on brain state with a particular focus on improving learning outcomes will also be presented.

This is a 4 hour session, filling the 10:50-12:50 and 2:10-4:10 time slots.  You will break for lunch from 12:50-2:00

Jumpstart your youth engagement strategies in their dynamic, hands-on workshop designed for Youth Development Professionals! Discover the keys to launching meaningful developmental relationships with youth, craft powerful driving questions that inspire curiosity, and unlock the potential of the 5 Es (Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate) to guide your programs.  Walk away with a grab bag of creative transition activities, all while learning practical tools to build connections that matter.  Whether you're new to youth work or looking to refresh your approach, this session will leave you energized and ready to transform interactions into impactful experiences.  This Early Childhood workshop will plan and participate in activities that support Developmental skills and STEAM.

This is a 4 hour session, filling the 10:50-12:50 and 2:10-4:10 time slots.  You will break for lunch from 12:50-2:00

Jumpstart your youth engagement strategies in their dynamic, hands-on workshop designed for Youth Development Professionals! Discover the keys to launching meaningful developmental relationships with youth, craft powerful driving questions that inspire curiosity, and unlock the potential of the 5 Es (Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate) to guide your programs.  Walk away with a grab bag of creative transition activities, all while learning practical tools to build connections that matter.  Whether you're new to youth work or looking to refresh your approach, this session will leave you energized and ready to transform interactions into impactful experiences.  This workshop will plan and participate in activities that support Literacy and STEAM.