Sharing Your Values with the Youth in Your CareTues Dec 9 and Wed Dec 10 (two parts)12 noon- 1 pm
Research shows that if young people understand family values around healthy development, decision making, and relationships, they are more likely to follow them; however, many families do not discuss their values, often because they have not had the chance to reflect on them. This workshop offers participants the opportunity to do just that, as well as identifying the factors that have shaped their personal values and how those values have changed over time. The goal of this workshop is to help families feel more prepared to have values conversations with the young people in their lives.

Trainer Bios:
Sonja Fernández was born and raised in Caguas, Puerto Rico. Their main passions are social justice, human rights, restorative/transformative practices and writing/storytelling. In addition to working for liberation at all their intersections, they love music, coffee, and spending time with their family and their dog Benito. They earned a BA in Political Sciences from the University of Puerto Rico and a Juris Doctor from the UPR School of Law. Since 2017, they have worked as a legal researcher and writer, a site facilitator for the Hennepin County, a as an educator and a Restorative Facilitator and Trainer.

Ly Baumgardt started with the SELF team at the start of 2025 and has been an educator since 2015. Before LSS, Ly co-founded the local nonprofit TIGERRS and works as their coordinator alongside his role at LSS. It has worked with interACT and THIS around policy, education, medical trainings, and peer healthcare, and has been a youth worker and youth educator for the past seven years. Ly loves roller skating, cats, podcasts about antizionist Jewish vampires, making quizzes, the concept of ghosts (but not really), and questionably bad music.