Phone: 612-673-2708
pam.mcbride@ci.minneapolis.mn.us
For the last 16 years, Pam McBride has committed her time, energy and passion into the further development of the voice, power and leadership of young people.
Her leadership has shaped partnerships with community and national organizations. She's had experience as a youth worker, outreach worker, case manager in the juvenile justice system, and worked on behalf of runaway and homeless youth. As a program director McBride has developed programs and curriculum for runaway youth and their families focused on employment, education, independent living skills training, and family reunification and preservation.
McBride worked as a trained facilitator with foundations, corporations and community organizations in collaborative building, programming and finding the newest ways to engage youth and adults and organizations together.
She is involved in community work through her role as a facilitator, a collaborator and as a youth worker. She received a bachelor's degree in Psychology and studied Youth Development at the University of Minnesota. She created “Intro to Youth Development,” a class for Minneapolis Community and Technical College, and is certified in the advanced training seminar of Undoing Racism by the People's Institute in New Orleans, Louisiana.
She is trained by the Institute of Cultural Affairs as a facilitator for the training "Youth as Facilitative Leaders.”