Empower Youth Voice. Share the Mic. Shift the Power

In partnership with the Michigan Afterschool Partnership (MASP), we're inviting OST agencies across Michigan who serve older youth to participate in an introductory training in Youth Driven Spaces -- an engaging, interactive professional development experience that reimagines how youth and adults work together across programs and organizations.

Youth Driven Spaces Introductory Training

This free, interactive, and virtual training will explore how to:

• Design programs that activates young people's intrinsic motivation and engagement

• Create programs and events that foster growth, leadership, and positive identity formation

• Build youth–adult partnerships rooted in shared power and decision‑making.

Choose the session that works best for you:

May 27th, 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM

June 3rd, 3:30 PM - 6:30 PM

For more information email: training@neutral-zone.org

Youth Driven Spaces equips adults and youth to lead together. Through this innovative approach, young people take genuine roles in shaping programs, participating in governance, and contributing to organizational decisions all while developing agency, a positive sense of identity and belonging, and the capacity to create real change in their communities.