Being Authentic as a Youth Peer Advocate (YPA)

In this training, YPAs gained skills on how to build authentic connections with youth and how to operate authentically as a YPA. We also began to uncover circumstantial elements that inhibit authenticity in personal and professional settings. YPAs left this training with an increased skillset to draw from in their work, promptings for introspection, expanded vocabulary in regard to operating authentically and an awakened passion to show up as their authentic selves in their personal and professional lives.