Hope Town Academy
Three tracks. Four sessions each.
Teach. Discuss. Do. Built for teams who need AI literacy that holds up under real work.
Why three tracks
AI literacy is not one curriculum.
A program director making board-level decisions doesn't need the same training as a case manager drafting case notes — and neither of them needs what someone job-hunting needs. We built three tracks because AI means something different depending on who's in the room.
Every track runs the same way: four two-hour sessions, each one part teaching, part discussion, part hands-on work with your own material.
The tracks
Pick the room you're teaching.
AI Readiness: General
A working foundation. By the end, your team isn't speculating about AI — they're using it, with the judgment to know when not to.
A plain-language model of how these tools work, what the last eighteen months actually changed, and where the hype stops matching the capability.
Writing, research, summarization, and structured output — practiced on your team's own documents, not a demo dataset.
What to automate, what to keep human, and how to keep a consistent voice when a tool is drafting for you.
What never goes into a prompt, how to check what comes back, and the habits that keep a team out of trouble.
AI for the Underserved and Underemployed
The track we built first. For people entering the workforce, coming back to it, or trying to move up in it — and who want AI working for them rather than against them.
No jargon and no hype. What AI is, what it isn't, and an honest look at what it changes about the jobs you're going after.
Build a résumé that reads like you, tailor it to a real posting, and practice interviews out loud — using your own history, including the parts that are hard to explain.
Writing, email, scheduling, and getting up to speed on something new. The daily tasks where AI makes you quicker and more confident in the first ninety days.
What never goes into a prompt, how to check what comes back before your name is on it, and where employers stand on AI use.
AI for Leaders
For the people making the decision. You will not write a prompt in this track. You will walk out able to lead the conversation in your boardroom, with your funders, and with the staff watching closely to see if you actually understand what you're approving.
How to tell a real operational case from a vendor's pitch, and how to say no in a way your team and your board both understand.
You leave with the outline of a policy that fits your organization and holds up under audit — not a template copied from a hospital system ten times your size.
What to sequence first, what it costs, and how to talk about return with funders who are asking harder questions every year.
Your staff's first question is whether this replaces them. How you answer that determines whether any of the rest of it works.
Not sure which fits
Tell us who's in the room.
We'll point you at the right starting place — or build something custom if none of the three is right for your team.