Let’s create something together

Ashley loves supporting staff to become leaders in their field, build skills and reexamine their work in a new way. With a decade of experience facilitating formal trainings and providing targeted coaching for youth workers, Ashley’s trainings are highly interactive and participatory, using experiential learning and discussion to highlight key messages. They take special care to incorporate anti-oppression and social justice values as a foundation of each training. Participants should always walk away with tangible skills they can use in their work.

Ashley offers trainings on youth worker best practice topics, all of which can be paired with ongoing coaching to develop skills into a practice. They love mentoring and supporting supervisors and new Directors to develop their confidence and skills. Ashley is always happy to customize trainings and develop new material to meet the needs of each organization or participant group.

Sample Training Topics:

Undoing Adultism

Results Based Facilitation

Skills for Supervising People with Lived Experience

Demographic Data Collection

Facilitating for Improvement

Diversion and Housing Problem Solving Skills

Continuous Quality Improvement

Case Conferencing

Process Mapping for Improvement

Moving Up the Ladder: Maximizing Youth Voice

Harm Reduction in Youth Work

Practicing the Experiential Learning Model

Need support building a new project or program? From developing the vision, to project management, to developing guidelines, to embedding lived expertise, to finally writing up your Community CCP, Ashley has worked with teams to launch more than 15 youth homelessness programs nationwide, and can help bring your idea into reality.

Trained at Harvard University in program evaluation, participatory action research, data for improvement, and a number of other critical research methods, Ashley is a skilled researcher with a passion for action. Ashley has experience weaving together qualitative and quantitative methods in complex academic research projects and in baseline program evaluation.

Big picture or at the program level, strategic planning requires organizations or communities to pinpoint what truly matters to them, their vision for the future, and to map out a pathway forward that everyone can see their role in. Ashley is an expert facilitator that can do the hard work, so you and your team can have fun bringing your values and mission to life!

Aims? Data? Mapping? oh, my! Thinking about using Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) to reach goals in your program, organization or community? Ashley has used CQI methodology and tools for years to drive measurable reductions in youth homelessness in Washington state, and has tailored them to target racism, transphobia and homophobia in systems. They would love to coach your teams to use the frameworks, build the skills, and integrate this practice into your work.

Ashley has over a decade of experience developing training curriculum for youth workers around best practices, youth council and youth advocacy programming, youth homelessness, and quality improvement. Some of their proudest work included developing a robust training institute for homeless youth workers across King County, creating content for numerous national conferences, and leading the execution of high-impact Learning Session conferences for youth homelessness systems leaders across WA.

Ashley’s expertise is in leading collaborative curriculum development projects with staff or young people. Their process often includes meeting with staff or youth subject experts to identify objectives, key messages, critical content, and to build an understanding of the specific needs of the organization. They take on the role of building facilitative structures, writing a facilitation guide, and creating visuals and handouts, creating sustainable, highly tailored trainings for your organization.

Ashley would love to hear about your curriculum development projects and help you create amazing, sustainable internal staff trainings that truly reflect the needs of your organization.

Having spent the last decade building youth and homelessness programs, Ashley has a wide range of expertise to offer around building effective and mission-driven programs or processes, community or organizational strategic planning, coaching staff and leaders, and efforts to center youth or voices of those with lived experience in systems change processes. Ashley is an expert project manager that can help bring your project to life.

Lets discuss your idea!