The #MRWDE Facilitator Training is a 3-hour, interactive session designed for educators, youth leaders, and community partners across Delaware (and Maryland). It prepares participants to implement a statewide, strength-based initiative that connects youth passions to protective factors against risky behaviors like substance misuse. Using the MRW curriculum, youth create prevention-focused PSA videos that inspire their communities. The training offers hands-on experience, adaptation strategies for various settings, and tools to guide youth in positive campaigns. Participants gain full curriculum materials, a clear understanding of the #MRWDE framework, and the confidence to lead impactful workshops. Connect with other prevention-focused leaders through this initiative.
From developing fine motor skills, to building vocabulary, to introducing STEM concepts, to improving social-emotional skills, art programs can contribute enormously to early childhood learning and literacy development. But planning and running art programs for young children at the library can feel overwhelming, especially if you feel like your own art skills peaked in kindergarten. In this half-day workshop, you'll learn step by step how to plan and run an art program for toddlers and preschoolers, and get hands-on practice with two art projects designed for young children at libraries.
The Wonder Media: Ask the Questions! website helps tweens and teens develop media and news literacy skills through engaging content and activities. Attendees will discover programming resources, co-designed by public and school library staff, that feature interactive activities for ages 10 and older and promote the critical, intentional, and safe use of digital media content. The basic concepts of news and media literacy will be covered, along with exploration of the website’s games, videos, quizzes, and other resources. They will gain ideas and strategies to help create passive and active programming for tweens and teens around media and news literacy.
