Training

OSTLI Introductory Social Emotional Learning

Creative Focus: Inspiring Youth Through Art And Creativity

"It’s so important to make creative spaces with no bounds and limits. It is an act of love and promotion of self-exploration to give young people spaces to create where they don’t have to accomplish what you want instead what they feel to do!"

Makerspace: Let's get Messy



"I will be able to create proper maker spaces for my youth center, being able to balance structure and freedom to create ideal environments for young people to productively express creativity,"

Will you put into practice any of the new ideas, content or knowledge in your job and/or OST program?

"Makerspaces, I’ve already incorporated into my youth work. Voice lessons, I work with a teen at my program on voice strengthening and can utilize the strategies I learned. Strength training, seems like an amazing physical activity to run with young people who don’t consider themselves athletic. The stress workshop?? Oh my goodness don’t even get me started. And the art through identity, I literally ran those activities the day after I attended the workshop. It’s just overall, we as youth workers are teeming with ideas and sharing our creativity and expertise with each other is so incredibly important."

On Saturday, Feb 8th City Sprouts is hosting our 2nd annual Boston Area School Garden Conference at the Orchard Gardens School in Roxbury. This is a free professional development conference for educators and administrators to convene for workshops, panel discussions, and more focused around how to provide effective opportunities for youth to learn outdoors in gardens and beyond. Our registration page is linked here (https://forms.gle/LUmLdgUnWdNcq3DX8) and more information is provided on our website here (https://www.citysprouts.org/csconf2025).