Join the BellXcel Community as we prepare for youth programs! Our Partner Success team will highlight relevant topics, strategies, and functionality to help you make this your best program ever.
Watch on-demand webinars:
Intentional Professional Development for a Quality Program
ON DEMAND WEBINAR (APRIL 2023)
Our team will offer advice on how to guide your staff through utilizing the professional development resources within the platform and answer your questions around supporting adult learners and getting them ready to make an impact in your summer program!
Come see what new resources, activities, and curriculum will be available for your summer program! We can't wait to give you a quick tour and answer any questions you may have!
Recruitment & Enrollment Strategies for Summer Programs
ON DEMAND WEBINAR (FEBRUARY, 2023)
Join our panel discussion with some of your distinguished leaders of afterschool and summer program peers as they share their process for recruiting and enrolling summer participants.
Planning & Recruiting Staff to Reach Your Summer Program Goals
ON DEMAND WEBINAR (DECEMBER, 2022)
Successful programs get their start with adequate planning and preparation well before the doors open. We're sitting down with youth program leaders to discuss their program planning and staff recruitment strategies for summer programs.
Preparing for your afterschool program? Join us to learn best practices on connecting the school day to afterschool, program logistics, as well as staff & scholar recruitment.
Learn strategies to strengthen family communications and take in a live demonstration of the new BellXcel App & Family Portal, which allows you to engage families with announcements, newsletters, photos, and direct messages.
In this session, we show:
Strategies for strong outreach to keep families engaged throughout your program
Templates staff can use to create and share information with families
How to invite families to join your app
The new family portal that allows families to enroll their children, with visibility into program enrollments and historical participation data
How to customize the app and family portal with your logo and accent colors for a visually consistent program experience for families
Incorporating Social Emotional Learning in Youth Programs
ON DEMAND 60 MIN WEBINAR (APRIL, 2022)
Attention to mental health is more important than ever! Learn from fellow youth program providers how you can support the mind body connection and empower a growth mindset in your scholars with BellXcel Explorers, curriculum designed to support healthy minds and healthy bodies. Social emotional learning, enrichment, and physical fitness are the cornerstones of this fun and engaging activity-driven curriculum.
Come see a demonstration of the new online enrollment functionality, which offers brandable enrollment capabilities for you to easily recruit and enroll scholars. Not only does this simplify administration, it also puts the onus of data population on the families vs your staff, giving you a solid foundation for trackable metrics!
In this session, we'll cover:
How to easily create forms and applications that reflect your branding
Requiring and collecting documents and waivers
Automation for enrollment and wait-listing
Enrollment management, dynamic reporting, and bulk changes
Staffing is consistently listed as the biggest hurdle in preparing for and executing successful youth programs. To help you navigate staffing challenges, we've invited Samantha Church from the YMCA of Metro Denver, Kelley Barnes from the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Kansas City, and LaShaun Murray and Malcolm Parker from YMCA of Metro DC to discuss navigating the challenges of today's staffing environment, along with Mark Williams and Joy Dixon from BellXcel.
In this session, your peers will share the challenges they face with staffing and strategies they're employing to overcome. We'll also highlight resources within the BellXcel platform that can help you recruit, onboard, and retain staff.
January is the perfect time to start planning for summer programs. Join Alicia Roberson of YMCA Central New York and Megan Glynn of Southeast Ventura County YMCA, along with Mark Williams and Joy Dixon from the BellXcel partner success team, to learn what you can do now to set yourself up for your most successful summer yet.
We will discuss the importance of setting program goals and ways to approach planning and professional learning for staff, along with how to leverage streamlined checklists with your BellXcel Program Planner throughout your program journey.
Learning objectives for this session:
Hear what other programs have done - and plan to do - to prepare for summer
Discover what tasks you should tackle NOW to set yourself up for success this summer
Learn to leverage the pre-populated tasks based on proven best practices to jump-start your program planning
Explore the content and tools that support you and your staff in your planning - every step of the way
