Professional Development
Overview
BaMidbar maximizes impact through professional development programs for youth and young adult-serving Jewish community professionals, which helps build a resilient and thriving Jewish community that actively supports its members in achieving mental wellness. BaMidbar’s professional development programs focus on mental health literacy, experiential education as a tool for social and emotional learning, Jewish perspectives on wellness, and educator empowerment and self-care. Programming is delivered through retreats, stand-alone training, workshops, and online courses.
Through BaMidbar’s education programs, Jewish professionals build the knowledge, skills, and confidence to:
- Promote healthy social and emotional development for all of the youth they serve;
- Recognize when youth are at risk of experiencing mental health challenges;
- Intervene early and appropriately when mental health challenges arise;
- Create Jewish learning experiences through a whole-health wellness lens;
- Integrate trauma-informed frameworks and build mental health capacity at the organizational level.
To review a list of the current professional development programs we’re offering, click here.
Upcoming Education Programs
Programs listed below are open-enrollment. Programs with partner organizations are typically not listed here on our website. If you’re interested in partnering with BaMidbar to run a program in your community, email Info@BaMidbarTherapy.org or call 720-835-2937 x102.
Dates: May 10, 2023
Location: Bentley University, Waltham MA
Hire Us
BaMidbar offers a variety of professional development workshops and community education events for synagogues, Jewish day schools, summer camps, youth groups, and more. Interested in bringing a BaMidbar staff to your community? Email Info@BaMidbarTherapy.org, or call 720-835-2937 x102.
Who We've
Worked With
Jewish Organizations
- Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston
- BBYO
- Gateways: Access to Jewish Education
- Hillel International
- JEWISHcolorado
- Jewish Addiction Awareness Network
- JCFS Chicago
- Jewish Education Project
- Jewish Federation of Greater Phoenix
- Jewish Family & Children’s Service AZ
- Jewish Federation of Cleveland
- Jewish Family Service of Metro Detroit
- Jewish Teen Education & Engagement Funder Collaborative
- Mitsui Collective
- Prizmah: Center for Jewish Day Schools
- UpStart Lab
Jewish Camps
- Capital Camps
- Foundation for Jewish Camp
- National Ramah Commission
- Ramah in the Rockies
- Ramah California
- Union for Reform Judaism Camps
Synagogues &
Rabbinic Organizations
- Congregation Beth El – Sudbury, MA
- Congregation Bonai Shalom – Boulder
- Congregation Or Zarua – New York City
- Hebrew Education Alliance – Denver
- Mishkan Chicago
- Rocky Mountain Rabbinical Council
- Temple Chai – Phoenix
- Temple Beth Am – Los Angeles
- Valley Beth Shalom – Los Angeles