Training & Consultation
Temescal Associates offers a broad array of trainings to build the knowledge and skills of youth program leaders and youth workers. Temescal also provides on-site coaching designed to ensure the translation of training content to program structures and day-to-day practice.
We believe that the most important leverage point for program improvement is the person who oversees program design, implementation, and the work of direct line staff. Temescal offers training and coaching to program leaders to build their capacity to lead and sustain program improvement over time.
We believe that the most important leverage point for program improvement is the person who oversees program design, implementation, and the work of direct line staff. Temescal offers training and coaching to program leaders to build their capacity to lead and sustain program improvement over time.
Organizational & Program Design
Temescal Associates works closely with organizational leaders interested in increasing the quality, consistency, and scale of their programs. We provide advice on program design and implementation strategies that ensure program fidelity and quality.
Taking programs to scale without sacrificing quality presents a difficult challenge for organizations. Temescal works with organizational leaders to engage stakeholders in carefully crafting plans for expansion and executing them in ways that preserves the integrity of the original program design.
Taking programs to scale without sacrificing quality presents a difficult challenge for organizations. Temescal works with organizational leaders to engage stakeholders in carefully crafting plans for expansion and executing them in ways that preserves the integrity of the original program design.
Initiative Building
Temescal Associates defines initiative building as an effort to engage leaders across sectors and systems to effect profound change - change that cannot be accomplished from acting alone. Temescal is dedicated to helping systems leaders bring together influential organizations, develop clear and shared goals and outcomes, forge agreements, and create sustainable structures that will address the needs of young people across time and ultimately improve larger youth outcomes.
As an example, Temescal Associates has been instrumental in the initial design and implementation of MyCom, a movement that aims to inspire and prepare Greater Cleveland’s young people, kindergarten through graduation, to reach their full potential and become good citizens. It exposes kids to a variety of activities and experiences that allow them to explore new interests and learn new skills. It connects them to a network of caring and committed adults – teachers, mentors, employers, and others – who offer guidance and encouragement. MyCom prepares Greater Cleveland’s young people to enter early adulthood with the ability to foster healthy relationships throughout their lives and the skills to compete in a global economy.
As an example, Temescal Associates has been instrumental in the initial design and implementation of MyCom, a movement that aims to inspire and prepare Greater Cleveland’s young people, kindergarten through graduation, to reach their full potential and become good citizens. It exposes kids to a variety of activities and experiences that allow them to explore new interests and learn new skills. It connects them to a network of caring and committed adults – teachers, mentors, employers, and others – who offer guidance and encouragement. MyCom prepares Greater Cleveland’s young people to enter early adulthood with the ability to foster healthy relationships throughout their lives and the skills to compete in a global economy.
Education, Policy & Systems Alignment
At times, Temescal Associates serves as a thought leader to promote inquiry, raise awareness, and/or forge field consensus on emerging issues and important new positions. Included is our recent work on selecting appropriate outcomes for afterschool programs and promoting the expansion of afterschool programs to serve high school age youth.
Ensuring the support necessary for healthy youth development requires the alignment of public policies and larger systems with youth development principles. Temescal Associates is dedicated to working with advocacy agencies, foundations, policy makers, and systems leaders seeking to accomplish this.
Ensuring the support necessary for healthy youth development requires the alignment of public policies and larger systems with youth development principles. Temescal Associates is dedicated to working with advocacy agencies, foundations, policy makers, and systems leaders seeking to accomplish this.
