CIS President and CEO Rey Saldaña Featured Guest on Thriving Youth Knowledge Exchange Podcast

Episode 6 of the Thriving Youth Knowledge Exchange podcast brings together thirteen conversations about how schools, families, communities, and child-serving systems can organize supports around the strengths and needs of young people. The conversations move from understanding individual needs to building coherent systems of relationships, shared responsibility, equity, and opportunity.

What if we engaged youth from the beginning to understand their needs and develop the plan itself?

And when the plan doesn’t work, what if we asked them why?

-Rey Saldaña, President and CEO, CIS National

The podcast episode explores this question with Rey Saldaña, Catherine Bradshaw, John Lochman, Eric Bruns and Kwesi Rollins — researchers and practitioners who each describe what it takes to actually ask, and to act on, what young people tell us.

• The Adult Who Stays: Communities In Schools® (CIS®) National President and CEO Rey Saldaña reflects on the importance of caring adults who remain present in young people’s lives, build trust, and provide the relationships and support that help young people stay engaged and thrive. Listen Now
• Turning Trust into a Schoolwide Strategy: Moving beyond individual relationships, this conversation with Rey Saldaña explores how trust and caring relationships can become part of a broader schoolwide strategy for supporting young people. Listen Now
• Podcast Episode 6: Creating Safe Nurturing Environments that Engage Learners and Foster Thriving and Robust Learning (Full List of Conversations, Transcripts and Presenters' Bios)