Our Walking the Talk – How Youth-Centered is Your Work? workshop explores best practices for implementing a youth-centered program model that empowers young people and addresses the challenges they experience. The training addresses adultism and its impacts and equips participants to collaborate meaningfully with the youth in their programs. Young people need trusted adults and youth-centered spaces to support them more than ever! Does your organization have the structures in place to answer the call? For many of us, the pandemic challenged our capacity to implement youth-centered work and support the young people in our missions as authentically as before. It caused many of us to reevaluate the structure of programs and our role as adult program coordinators. We still feel the effects of the pandemic daily, but there is hope! Through this nationally acclaimed session, participants will learn valuable insights and best practices for replicating a youth-centered program model that shares power with young people, combats internalized Adultism, adapts to unforeseen challenges, and creates spaces where youth can authentically impact their community. This session will be interactive and motivating, with many opportunities to reflect on our work in collaboration with young people and to set goals for the programs that serve them.