Youth Development Professionals Guidebook Youth Development Professionals

Bridget Barbara Byrne talks about her More Thank series on Diversity & Inclusion. Bridgette Barbera-Byrne hopes that through telling her story of what she overcame, it becomes someone else’s survival guide. WHEN IT COMES TO THE WORLD OF DIVERSITY, INCLUSION, AND ACCEPTANCE, WE CAN ALWAYS BE DOING MORE THAN WE ARE. This concept is what drives the vision behind the More Than training.  Owner and creator, Bridgette Barbera-Byrne states: “I imagine a world where someone’s dimensions of diversity do not interfere with the successes they achieve in life.  Where it does not dictate the privileges they are fortunate to encounter.  A world where the struggles one encounters are not predetermined by the dimensions of diversity that they were born into.  I imagine a world where people view each other’s differences as an open door to a world of new perspectives.“
More Than trainings focuses on topics in the diversity and inclusion realm.  They will provide participants with tools to assist them in navigating and leading others through these fragile and potentially controversial topics.
More Than trainings are customizable to every organization's needs and are suitable training tools for every industry.  Doesn’t every leader want a team that is mindfully inclusive and can do More Than exceed the expectations of their customer?

Dr. Jennifer Campbell is entering her fourth year as Coordinator and an Assistant Professor of Music Education at The College of Saint Rose, where she facilitates the growth of preservice music educators at every level. She is proud to serve as the advisor of the Collegiate NAfME chapter and was proud to support her advisees’ in hosting the 2020 Collegiate-NYSSMA Advocacy and Professional Development Conference in February. She teaches preschool and pre-K music and facilitating preservice music educator observation and field experience at the St. Rose Nursery School. She holds a Bachelor of Music Education from Baldwin Wallace Conservatory and earned her MM and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Mississippi. Before seeking full-time graduate work,
Jennifer was a successful music educator in Hockessin, Delaware. Over her five-year tenure, she taught courses in general and vocal music to students in grades Pre-K through Eighth, directed two choirs, and served as technical and assistant director for many theatrical productions. She continued to actively teach preschool and pre-K music at the Willie-Price laboratory school during her graduate studies at Ole Miss. As an elementary music specialist, she has completed three levels in the Orff-Schulwerk approach and holds a level II certificate in Kodály pedagogy. She was honored to participate and present at the 2019 Southwest Region Collegiate Summit, sponsored by the NAfME. She has presented for Albany City Music Educators in 2018, the Diocese of Albany Catholic Music Educators in 2019, and at the NYSSMA Winter Conference in 2018.
She serves as a College Liaison for the Berkshire-Hudson Valley Chapter of the America Orff-Schulwerk Association, hosting professional developments on-campus for in-service and preservice music educators each year. Jennifer has presented her research on female music educators of the nineteenth century at the 2017 Oklahoma Symposium on the History of Music Education and her research on early childhood singing at the 2016 NAfME Music Research and Teacher Education National Conference. She is a member of the National Association for Music Educators, the Organization for Kodaly Educators, and the American Orff-Schulwerk Association.

Daniela Kavoukas’s primary role at Community Child Care, which is the peak .org for not-for-profit children's services in Victoria, Australia is to lead policy, advocacy and membership. It is with a deep passion and belief that children are our most precious assets, we need to nurture the future by providing each and every child with high-quality education and care. My role is crucial in fighting for children's rights, ensuring that my voice is clear and loud in government, ensuring I can support services to provide exceptional education and care. I am also an educational leader and mentor at Flemington Childcare Co-operative, I remain at ground level and engaging with children and families and my team to ensure their voices are an active part of my advocacy. Prior to these roles, I have been a practitioner and teacher for the past 20 years.

Laurie has worked in the not-for-profit sector for over twenty years. She has served in numerous professional and volunteer roles including development director, grassroots fundraiser, executive director, board member, and board chair for a variety of not for profit organizations throughout her career. Laurie currently provides consulting in fundraising, community organizing, board development, executive coaching, and strategic planning. She feels that fundraising and building a Culture of Philanthropy is sacred transformative work. Not only is it meaningful, but it can alter the trajectory of an organization.
Laurie started Rainmaker Consulting Group LLC in 2003 because she saw that many organizations were lacking buy-in for fund development. Many had a mindset of scarcity. They didn’t think that they could raise enough money, that they didn’t “know anyone with money”, that their board was disengaged, and many of their top executives were not embracing fund development. There was a substantial gap between what nonprofit organizations needed and what they were achieving to fulfill their missions. What was lacking was a Culture of Philanthropy.
In the last 10 years, Herrick has focused her work on helping organizational leaders build a comprehensive, agency-wide, Culture of Philanthropy. Each of these teams of leaders together created implementation plans and built strategies to make positive culture change stick. The lessons and best practices gained through her consulting and teaching has led to her upcoming book, Choose Abundance: An Organizational Guide to Build a Culture of Philanthropy.

Dave Morrone is the Associate Executive Director of the Wang YMCA of Chinatown and has been serving in the YMCA for 21 years. Most of my career has been dedicated to providing services to youth and teens. I've been with the YMCA Northeast Leaders School for 18 years in various roles, the past 4 years of which as the School's Director.  
“What we are finding and what we have found for years, I’m sure you guys will agree...as a society has put this hammer down on kids around education, get out of high school, go on to college, do your next thing... What we didn’t put enough emphasis into was kids’ emotional intelligence development.” Dave Morrone
To contact Dave reach out to him at the YMCA, www.ymcaboston.org
To find out about Northeast Leaders School, www.ymcanortheastleadersclub.org