Training of Trainers Sessions
PC•1 Training of Trainers: Asset Building for Educators
Are you committed to applying a strength-based approach to student success? On Day One of this two-day Training of Trainers, you will attend a brief training introduction before experiencing PC5: Building Developmental Assets in School Communities. Day Two will provide opportunities for practice and feedback. You will:
• Learn to successfully facilitate the one-day popular asset-building workshop for school staff, Building Developmental Assets in School Communities
(see PC5 for full description);
• Examine how to accurately and effectively respond to questions about asset building in school communities;
• Practice your training delivery; and
• Receive trainer input and peer feedback on key training components.
PC•2 Training of Trainers: Essentials of Asset Building
Do you want to spread the asset message in your communities and organizations? Learn to inspire and support asset-building individuals and organizations in this Training of Trainers event that empowers you to deliver two core Search Institute community-centered training workshops:
• Everyone’s an Asset Builder: Introduces the Developmental Assets framework and the powerful role of individual asset builders in the lives of youth; and
• Sharing the Asset Message: Trains community members and groups to deliver a variety of asset-building messages to multiple audiences.
Special training features include: 1) Instruction for innovative and effective training strategies; 2) Resources, including interactive, hands-on designs, as well as a complete training curriculum; and 3) Personal coaching from a Search Institute master trainer.
*One Resource Library may be purchased per individual, or a team from the same organization may share a library. Each library includes the Training Master Curriculum and a broad collection of published resources (complete list available at www.search-institute.org/training/sessions.)
PC•3 Training of Trainers: Parenting Partners—Practical Tools for Positive Parenting
You can help parents develop practical tools for positive parenting and use the research-based Developmental Assets as a way to help kids thrive! Through Parenting Partners workshops, school and agency teams have trained thousands of parents to become more engaged in their children’s education and empowered through building practical parenting skills. Send individuals and teams from school and community sites to this two-day Training of Trainers, where they will learn to:
• Successfully organize and facilitate the seven-session Parenting Partners Workshops;
• Work effectively in a multi-lingual setting;
• Recruit parents;
• Develop parent leaders who can bring the assets message to their schools and communities; and
• Develop a follow-up support program for parents.
You will receive the Parenting Partners Facilitator Manual in English and/or Spanish, Parent Workbooks in English/Spanish/Hmong, and the book How to Run Successful Parent Leadership Classes. Each individual or team receives the complete team presentation kit and supplies. Parenting Partners is currently used in more than 30 states and provinces by schools and school districts, migrant education programs, after-school programs, adult education, teen-parent programs, health departments, foster care agencies, churches, military family programs, and universities.
PC•4 Getting to Outcomes with Developmental Assets: Ten Steps to Measuring Success in Youth Programs | and Communities
This two-day training introduces a straightforward, ten-step planning, implementation, and evaluation process grounded in Developmental Assets research and proven prevention strategies. It will help youth program and initiative leaders understand how to get results that demonstrate to stakeholders (including funders) and communities that time, money, and resources are being well-spent. This training includes cultural competence and sustainability, and is designed to meet widely-accepted accountability criteria. In this two-day training you will:
• Understand the basic “Getting to Outcomes with Developmental Assets” ten-step process;
• Hear about the latest research on what works in asset building and prevention;
• Learn about critical asset-based measures in education, prevention, health, and other fields;
• Get tips for using “Assets-GTO” in practical, cost-conscious, and effective ways including field tips on how to get results in grant writing, program improvements, and prevention efforts; and
• Work on developing an evaluation plan tailored to your work, including preliminary design of asset-based measures.
This training is recommended for those who feel ready to bring their work into an “Assets-GTO” plan, and it includes some pre-training preparation to aid in the development of your own plans. Prior knowledge of the Developmental Assets framework is useful but not required (learn more at www.assetsgto.org).
One-Day Intensives
PC•5 Building Developmental Assets in School Communities: One Day Workshop
This workshop describes the connections between the Developmental Assets and student achievement. Learn how to build assets with individual students and how to initiate, increase, and strengthen the asset-building efforts that already exist in your school. During this training, you will:
• Learn the connections between the Developmental Assets framework and academic success;
• Study powerful strategies for moving students toward raising standards of achievement levels;
• Begin to implement the Developmental Assets framework in your school community; and
• Commit to building mutually respectful, caring, and genuine relationships with students.
This session is recommended for school administrators, teachers, counselors, school board members, parents, students, and youth development professionals.
NOTE: PC1 (above) is the Training of Trainers component of this workshop. PC5 is the one-day workshop only. You MUST register for PC1 to be trained to deliver this workshop yourself.
PC•6 Take a Field Trip! Explore a Sustainable Community Initiative in St. Louis Park, MN
How do you involve a variety of individuals from a wide range of organizations in your community initiative and make it sustainable? After more than a decade as the world’s first HC•HY initiative, Children First St. Louis Park, created the Asset Champions Network—a network of 100 trained people representing a wide range of organizations and ages in the community.
Learn how the Asset Champions Network concept came to be, the steps taken to create it, and how it was launched. You will board a bus to visit St. Louis Park, where you will experience firsthand what it means to be an Asset Champion through a variety of activities, interactions, skits, and more. You will come away with many ideas you can implement in your own community.
You will learn:
• How to add sparks to your community initiative by involving a wide range of community partners;
• Specific tips on what can be done in your organization to build assets;
• Information and ideas you can implement immediately; and
• A variety of tools you can use in marketing, fundraising and evaluating your work.
PC•7 Research-Based Youth Worker Training Series
The Youth Work Institute will facilitate a full day of brand-new research-based youth development training that will provide you with:
• Current research and practice related to youth engagement, along with real-life examples at the local and statewide levels;
• A current overview of the issue of program quality, as well as research-based ways of increasing and measuring quality;
• Opportunities to deepen youth worker practice through exploration of real-life examples of youth work dilemmas; and
• Access to vehicles for deepening youth-development research and practice, and remaining connected through online communities, training, and events.
Join leaders in the youth development field as together we explore cutting-edge issues facing youth workers: What’s all the talk about focusing on quality versus outcomes in youth programs? What do we really mean by “youth engagement”? And how do we deepen youth worker practice?
PC•8 The Power of Youth Empowerment
Attention! Anyone working with youth in a group capacity is welcome to join us as we explore and learn about youth empowerment—what works, what doesn’t, and how it looks when it’s done effectively. At journey’s end, you will have a clear understanding of youth empowerment, of how it transforms the effectiveness of youth initiatives, and why funders think it’s vital to youth programs. There will be tips for securing funding, tools for tracking and evaluation, and an overview of best practices. Presenters will draw on in-depth examples from foster care families, school teachers, counselors, and administrators to 4-H leaders and church youth groups wanting to revitalize their programs.
You will learn:
• Benefits of youth empowerment and how to unleash it;
• Processes adults can use to enhance, rather than hinder, youth empowerment; and
• Practical skills and tools for implementation and evaluation.
PC•9 “Circle of Youth Engagement” Training
The Circle of Youth Engagement, based on the book Giving Voice to the Leader Within by Gillen, Johnson, and Sinykin, is an interactive training and discussion facilitated by youth and adult trainers and is geared to an adult and youth audience. The first four hours involve youth and adults in separate, simultaneous breakout sessions, and the last three hours bring the youth and adults back together for an interactive session.
You will experience conversation, activities, and reflection on the first six circles of youth engagement: 1) The four keys to support resource space and opportunities, 2) Strategy development, 3) Specific actions in the community, 4) Engagement of service delivery systems, 5) Connections through respect, trust, partnerships, and responsibility, 6) and Engaged actions in the community to prepare for implementation projects. In this training you will come to know yourself in relation to youth engagement.
In this event, you will learn the circle method of youth engagement, including:
• The four core concepts of giving voice to the leader within;
• Personal and organizational barriers to youth engagement;
• The Focused Conversation as a catalyst for engagement and change; and
• The process of Consensus and Action Plan for a purpose together.
PC•10 Building a Foundation for the Future: Creating a Youth Master Plan That Will Help Your Youth Thrive
An increasing number of cities and counties are turning to a strategy called Youth Master Planning to address the overwhelming number of issues that affect their children, youth, and families. This workshop introduces a proven and effective municipal planning model based on the National League of Cities, “City Platform for Strengthening Families and Improving Outcomes for Children and Youth”, the Developmental Assets framework, and best practices in community and youth development. You will:
• Learn to help your city officials and citizens understand the value of creating community change through a Youth Master Plan;
• Gain insights on ways to involve all the key stakeholders in your community;
• Learn the steps of a proven model that leads to sustainable support for the youth of your community;
• Explore the shift a community needs to make from a deficit focus to a developmentally attentive focus; and
• Learn how to ensure youth are a meaningful part of the entire planning process.
PC•11 Tiger’s Action Plan: A Program for Youth Ages 8 to 17
In this session, the three national priorities of character development, volunteer service, and career exploration are featured in this ideal curriculum for 4th through 12th-grade classroom teachers, after-school providers, and organizations or parents working with youth. Since 2000, the program has been shown to generate measurable improvements in students’ self esteem, goal-setting abilities, and attitudes toward learning. In addition, the program addresses most of the Search Institute’s 40 Developmental Assets. If you are looking for a way to encourage youth to identify personal goals and dreams and want them to learn about their individual talents, skills, and abilities, then join us for this informative, step-by-step comprehensive session that will empower you to walk away ready to teach the workshop and curriculum. You will:
• Gain information on how to implement the program;
• Learn strategies to bring out the “leader within” using service-learning and Tiger’s Action Plan; and
• Receive a copy of the curriculum.
Half-Day Intensives
PC•12 Leading From Within: Essentials of the Inner Dimensions of Leadership
How do you maintain your spark? Where do you find the sparks to keep fueled and full? Burnout is a natural hazard for the teaching, ministry, and social service fields. Learning how to care for yourself and keep your spark alive is challenging, yet crucial. This half-day retreat provides space for you to tune in to your inner wisdom, connect with passions and interests, and discover inner dimensions of strength for the purpose of renewed leadership, service, and hope. Youth are welcome!
In this session, you will:
• Explore various renewal techniques;
• Identify your stress personality type and research-based skills to handle stress; and
• Discover inner capacity for building your own assets.
PC•13 Fundraising: You Often Need Money to Inspire Hope
and Instill Sparks!
This session will explore various sources of nonprofit funding and a few methods for engaging these sources. You’ll learn surprising facts about fundraising and participate in a practical fundraising process that will offer guidance and on-site practice in raising the money you need to inspire hope and instill sparks in local young people. You’ll also have the opportunity to speak about your own experiences and successes and learn from others.
You will learn:
• Details about a minimum of four sources for fundraising income and how to reach them;
• Why people and organizations give to particular causes; and
• How to ask for money for your initiative or nonprofit.
PC•14 Exploring Global Perspectives on Spiritual Development
You are invited to the first public release and dialogue about global research findings from Search Institute’s Center for Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence (www.spiritualdevelopmentcenter.org). This one-day pre-conference summit will bring together scholars, youth workers, religious leaders, and others to discuss key findings and insights from cutting-edge global research conducted over the past three years. You will also learn about findings and insights from other scholars who are deepening our understanding of spiritual development as an integral and essential part of human development across cultures and traditions.
Join with leaders, researchers, and practitioners to:
• Discover how young people, parents, and youth workers understand spiritual development, based on research in 17 countries on six continents;
• Examine a new framework for understanding the core processes of spiritual development that highlights commonalities across cultures and traditions while also acknowledging diverse approaches and strengths; and
• Explore the implications of this new research for future research, youth work policy, and practice in school, community, and faith-based settings.
PC•15 Welcome Party in the Youth Center
Youth, come to the Youth Center for “get to know you” activities where you will have an opportunity to share ideas and form new friendships. Get a head start on the conference. Kick back and chillax from your busy schedule!
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