Resources
Training Workshops
DCYF’s training offerings promote and embed the knowledge, experience, and tools developed by DCYF and our collaborators. All training workshops are grounded in youth development theory and practice, and are encouraged to link to the California Department of Education’s Quality Standards for Expanded Learning. View CDE’s Quality Standards for Expanded Learning in California.
Training Providers
Be the Change Consulting
Be the Change Consulting, LLC is a woman-owned and people of color-operated, racial justice-centered, capacity building firm. We specialize in equity & inclusion, youth development, organizational capacity building, and strategic planning. We provide high-quality learning experiences and consulting for organizations to reach their creative potential. We do this through an intentional process that connects core values to organizational outcomes while providing research-based strategies, experiential learning techniques, and live coaching on real issues. Our solutions engage clients in creative problem-solving, provide alignment to research and best practices, and offer strategies to institutionalize organizational change. Rooted in Oakland, CA since 2012, Be the Change Consulting was sparked by the question- who are these systems working for?!
Edutainment for equity
Edutainment for Equity provides organizations with comprehensive professional development and consulting to help them interrupt internal, interpersonal and institutional racism, design and launch strategic plans, articulate well informed visions for the future and establish and maintain healthy and equitable classrooms and programs. With over 50 years of combined experience our unique award winning approach integrates arts and entertainment in the process of facilitating personal, social and institutional transformation.
Flourish Agenda
Flourish Agenda is a national nonprofit consulting firm with over 25 years of practice, research, and capacity building experience in strengthening the capacity of community organizations’ service delivery to youth of color. Flourish Agenda’s mission is to build communities and institutions in which young people of color can flourish. We design strategies that unlock the power of healing and well-being and engage youth of color and adults who serve them in transforming schools and communities.
BDO Fiscal Management Associates
BDO FMA provides experienced financial management and skilled capacity-building technical assistance, including organizational consultation and training. Our approach is tailored to individual organizations and their specific needs, empowering them to effectively manage their resources, improve operations, and position themselves for stable, long-term growth.
Founded in 1999 as Fiscal Management Associates, FMA joined BDO USA in 2021 to become BDO FMA, a specialty practice exclusively serving nonprofit organizations and their funders nationwide and around the world by helping them develop the capacity they need to fulfill their missions more effectively and efficiently.
Candid.
Candid is a nonprofit organization that provides the most comprehensive data and insights about the social sector. Every year, millions of nonprofits spend trillions of dollars around the world. Candid finds out where that money comes from, where it goes, and why it matters. Through research, collaboration, and training, Candid connects people who want to change the world to the resources they need to do it.
San Francisco beacon initiative
The San Francisco Beacon Initiative coordinates public and private partnerships and funding that enable schools, communities, and families to offer academic, social, and support to their youth as they prepare for lives as successful adults.
Allies for equity - Nicky MacCallum
Nicky MacCallum is the Healing Director for “Youth ALIVE!” An organization dedicated to violence prevention, intervention, and healing, based in Oakland, CA. She is also the founder of “Allies 4 Equity,” a training and consultation group committed to equity, trauma informed healing centered engagement in service delivery and provider wellness. Nicky is an instructor for UC Berkeley extension, San Francisco State University, and is a member of the Health Alliance for Violence Intervention (HAVI) Certified training faculty. Nicky is also co-chair of the HAVI Mental Health Working Group, is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a Nationally Certified Counselor. She was a collaborative investigator for the DSM-5 field trials contributing on Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorders as well as Depressive Disorders. Nicky has 33 years of experience collaborating with victims of crime services, child protective services, family reunification, diversion programs, juvenile justice, community mental health, foster care, residential services, school-based programs and hospital-based programs.
National Institute of criminal justice reform
The National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform (NICJR) works to reduce incarceration and violence, improve the outcomes of system-involved youth and adults, and increase the capacity and expertise of the organizations that serve these individuals. NICJR provides technical assistance, consulting, research, organizational development, and advocacy in the fields of juvenile and criminal justice, youth development, and violence prevention. NICJR works with an array of organizations, including government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and philanthropic foundations.
Pathways Consultants
Pathways Consultants strives to be of service to and in partnership with communities who have intentionally been excluded from or are on the periphery of the most fundamental economic opportunities. Our team is fueled by a vision in which all people have full access to and participation in the institutions and centers of power that drive the economy and which feed our families, communities and hearts. Our work is asset-based and grounded in Youth Development theory and practice. Pathways Consultants works at the intersection of organizational, human and program development; recognizing that all are essential for a high performing organization. Our team has a demonstrated track record of working with service providers to launch and expand programs, increase enrollments, heighten efficiency and greatly increase outcome measures. Ultimately our efforts are measured by the impact that the agencies we serve have on their communities: moving more people out of poverty; engaging more youth in higher education; and increasing engagement and action in the community.
Blaze consulting group
Blaze Consulting Group creates transformative experiences to activate positive results. We help elevate organizations, using experiential learning theories, strategic planning, and data-informed processes to cultivate change. Through tailored training, innovative design, impactful consulting, and effective social justice programming, we provide tangible solutions and transformative processes helping unlock sustainable results. At our core, we approach the world with a lens of compassion, hope and a belief that "we are the ones we've been waiting for." Through the circles of possibilities, we envision a world more healthy, equitable and just.
Spark Decks
Youth development veterans Eva Jo Meyers and Oscar Wolters-Duran created Spark Decks in 2015 after hearing repeatedly from hundreds of organizations they worked with across the country that finding time for professional development is a major challenge. They also saw staff struggle to balance increasing demands for academically rigorous programming, while still maintaining the fun, youth-centered focus that make enrichment, afterschool and summer programming so engaging. Their workshops highlight hands-on, bite-sized strategies (“sparks”) that are designed to make on-the-job learning fun and accessible.
Other Professional Development Opportunities
Support for Programming
City College of San Francisco
The goal of the Child Development & Family Studies Department at City College of San Francisco is to provide a developmentally appropriate education for students, families and children that reflects a commitment to high quality and a broad understanding of how children learn and grow.
San Francisco Family Support Network
The San Francisco Family Support Network is committed to supporting those who work with families to do so most effectively by promoting best and promising practices and providing quality training and technical assistance opportunities. Trainings include certifying providers on the SFFSN Family Support Standards and providing support to them to work most effectively with families.
Partnership for Children and Youth
The Bay Area Continuous Learning (BACL) Initiative was created to support efforts to raise the quality of expanded learning programming across districts, cities, and local nonprofits. BACL recognizes it takes time to improve and sustain quality. This time involves a continuous cycle of learning that must be ongoing and organized. BACL aims to link learning, leadership, and collaboration among the initiative participants with the goal of building their capacity to independently sustain these efforts of learning and improvement over time.
California School-Age Consortium (Cal-SAC)
CalSAC provides training in an array of content areas from foundational skills needed to work with children and youth to leadership skills for supervising staff and managing programs. Training is also provided in timely topics areas such as STEM, working with English Learners and bullying prevention.
California Afterschool Network
The California Afterschool Network provides out-of-school time practitioners, advocates, and community members with the resources and tools necessary to build high quality out-of-school time programs in California.
Workforce One
Workforce One provides online training and webinars that help boost performance, ensure compliance, or improve customer service within the publicly-funded workforce system.
Other Professional Development
Support for Non-Profit Management
Compasspoint Nonprofit Services
Compasspoint works with thousands of nonprofits to support their staff development and provide them with the knowledge and skills needed for success on topics from fundraising and financial management to business planning and board governance.
San Francisco Controller’s Office
The Controller’s Office provides online resources and documents to support non-profit contractors with the City and County of San Francisco. Various trainings and technical assistance is available on subjects like developing agency-wide budget, cost allocation procedures, board development, and fundraising.