Find a Speaker for Your Event
The YWCA has a variety of staff members available to speak at your workshops and events, with a wide array of expertise, including:
Diversity & Inclusion
- Active Inclusion: De-biased and Equitable Employment Processes
- Bias Awareness and Management
- Building Human-Centered Workplaces
- Communication: Micro-Aggressions
- Cultural Humility
- Equity & Racial Justice
- Identity & Values
- Inclusion Beyond Compliance
- Power & Privilege
- RESPECT AT WORK: Preventing and Identifying Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
- The Spectrum of Whiteness
- Using WOMN and NACP ETF Criteria as Roadmaps to Women’s/Minority Empowerment
Early Childhood Education/Child Care Services
- Activity Facilitation with School Age Groups
- A Team Approach to Strengthening Young Children’s Social and Emotional Skills (Pyramid Model)
- Atypical Infant/Toddler and Child Development
- Basics of Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Practice
- Benefits of adding early head start into your program from an employee perspective
- Best practices in a family child care center
- Best Practices when administering for ASQ-3/ASQ: SE-2
- Bilingual Education for Infants/Toddlers
- Building Relationships with Families Parents/Families
- Caring for Mixed Ages of Children
- CCAP Process
- Choosing Quality Child Care
- Cognitive development
- Conducting Classroom Screenings and Assessments
- Conflict Resolution
- Creating an Active Learning Environment
- Cultivating a Pre-K Classroom of Kindness
- Cultural Awareness to Understand ESL Families
- Cultural Influence on Diet
- Culturally-relevant literacy
- DAP for School Agers
- Developmentally Appropriate Practice (Infants/Toddlers/Twos/Preschool)
- Enriched Learning Centers (Making the Most of your Environment)
- Executive Function
- Family Engagement
- Health and Wellness: Yoga and movement for children, recipes and cookbooks to use in the classroom
- How to write an attainable goal for a child or teacher
- Illinois Early Learning Guidelines
- Language and Powerful Interactions
- Living the NAEYC Standards in your Early Childhood Program
- Making your Outside Play Time Meaningful
- McKinney Vento
- Milestone Moments: Using ASQ
- NAEYC Accreditation Process (Environments, Classroom Portfolios, Program Portfolios, Changes)
- Non-Bias Teaching Practices “I Dream A World”
- On-going Assessment Using Primary Language
- Overcoming Sociocultural Challenges
- Parental Engagement
- PBC information, implementation, & content
- Positive Guidance/Challenging Behaviors
- Program for Infant Toddler Care
- Social-emotional Development in Young Children
- Successful Classroom Management
- Supporting Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners
- Teaching Children with Exceptionalities (both ends of the exceptionality continuum)
- The Power of Observation
- Understanding Young Children’s Challenging Behaviors
- Utilizing Child’s IFSP/IEP to Support Child’s Learning
Economic Empowerment
- Born Rich: Exploring Your Money Personality and Mindset
- Do I Look Like An ATM? Developing Financially Capable Children
- Soft Skill Development
- The African-American Civil Rights and Financial History
- The Urgency of Financial and Entrepreneurial Education
- Workforce Development
Human Resources
- Motivating Your Team
- Time Management
Marketing & Development
- Creating the WIN-WIN-WIN! Best practices in developing sustainable, strategic partnerships that create value for your organization, partners and those you serve!
- Social Media 101 for Non-Profits
Nutrition/Wellness
- Eat Right, Grow Strong: Healthy Easting
- Moving Children to Good Health: Physical Activity for Young Children
- Moving Towards a Healthy Lifestyle Together: Working with Families to Promote Healthy Behaviors
Parenting
- Active Parenting (Birth-5, 5-12, and 12-17)
- Apps, What are Kids Using
- Boundaries and Limitations
- Bullying in School and Online
- Capacity Building, Empowering Families
- Child Development and Social Emotional Learning
- Developing a Flexible Routine
- Early Literacy: Parents are Teachers
- Health, Safety & Fun
- Managing School Systems
- Mental Health and Trauma
- Parent Café
- Positive Guidance with Children
- Positive Solutions for Families
- Signs of Depression and Anxiety
- Strengthening Inclusion
Sexual Assault Prevention/Intervention
- Sexual Violence Prevention in Schools and College Campuses
- Title IX Compliance
Sexual Harassment Prevention/Intervention
- Creating a Safe and Healthy Workplace
- Cultural Humility
Please contact us at communications@ywcachicago.org for additional information.