Events

Location: Durfee Innovation Society, 2470 Collingwood St. (Room: The Dive), Detroit, MI 48206

We’re excited to invite you to YDRC’s Winter Celebration Open House, our final gathering of 2025!

Join us anytime between 12:00 and 2:00 PM to celebrate your hard work and commitment to youth development alongside others in the network. Enjoy good food, a fun networking activity, a winter craft, and time to share well-wishes for the new year.

📅 Date: Friday, December 12, 2025

⏰ Time: 12:00 – 2:00 PM ET

This event is free and open to all youth development professionals and community members.

Location: Durfee Innovation Society, 2470 Collingwood (Room: The Dive), Detroit, MI 48206

Facilitator: Kelly Rossi

This workshop provides practical and fun tools for engaging young people in the Plan-Do-Reflect learning process. It focuses on establishing clear, comprehensive plans at the beginning of an activity and reflecting on the results and process after the activity has been completed.

This workshop is open to all youth development professionals and requires registration. The registration fee is $30.00.

Location: Durfee Innovation Society, 2470 Collingwood (Room: The Dive), Detroit, MI 48206
Facilitator: Edgar Gomez
This workshop gives youth development providers practical tools to build problem-solving opportunities into programs and support young people with in-the-moment problem-solving. Participants will learn the basics of how our brain solves problems and practice a model for helping young people define and explore problems, preparing them to take action and learn from them.
This workshop is open to all youth development professionals and requires registration. The registration fee is $30.00.