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| Tuesday, May 06, 2008 |
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| Community Needs Assessment and Information Resources Training |
| Where: North Dade Regional Library, 2455 NW 183rd St. |
| When: 10:00:00 AM |
Class description:
• Do you know what your community’s needs are?
• Where and how do you find this information?
• How can you best relay this information to others?
The foundation of a strong needs assessment is one that successfully compiles, analyzes, and presents information in order to convey the necessity and rationale to support your proposal/position.
Whether your purpose is to better understand the needs of your community, develop a winning grant proposal, or advocate for a cause.
This two-hour presentation identifies specific strategies, methods and data resources for crafting concise and convincing needs assessments and discussions.
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| Spaces Left: 16 |
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| Wednesday, May 07, 2008 |
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| Parental Involvement |
| Where: 3150 SW 3rd Ave - Coral Way, 8th Flr, Miami, 33129 |
| When: 10:00:00 AM |
Class description:
This two-hour presentation will encourage participants to develop plans to increase parental involvement in their programs. Methods regarding how to develop a hook to get parents to your program, how to keep them coming and how to create a parental advisory board will be discussed. Potential benefits and challenges to increasing parental involvement will also be discussed.
Topics include:
• Creating an environment that encourages participation
• Stages of engaging families
• Essentials of effective participation
• How to develop a parental advisory board
Upon completion of this session participants will be able to develop their own plan to increase parental involvement.
No prerequisite
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| Spaces Left: 26 |
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| Friday, May 09, 2008 |
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| Monday, May 12, 2008 |
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| One-Minute Reading Fluency Tool Training |
| Where: 3150 SW 3rd Ave - Coral Way, 8th Flr, Miami, 33129 |
| When: 10:00:00 AM |
Class description:
Almost all OOS programs require some level of academic activity that includes reading.
This workshop will train you on how to use the One-Minute Oral Reading Fluency Measure. This measure can be used with all age groups, cultures, and ability levels.
All Children’s Trust funded programs will begin using the One-Minute Oral Reading Fluency Measure, so participation in this workshop is strongly encouraged.
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| Spaces Left: 23 |
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| Wednesday, May 14, 2008 |
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| Marketing & Showcasing Your Agency |
| Where: Dave and Mary Alper JCC, 11155 SW 112th Ave, Miami |
| When: 10:00:00 AM |
Class description:
This two-hour training will help you understand the importance of showcasing your agency to the community.
This session will provide effective ideas to reach the right target audience for your programs.
Topics include:
• Your agency services
• Why is your agency unique?
• Showcasing activities and work samples
• Publicity: Choosing the right media
• Parents involvement
Upon completion of this session participants will be able to plan
a well-designed showcase event to get more participants into their programs.
Open to all The Children’s Trust Providers.
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| Spaces Left: 40 |
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| Thursday, May 15, 2008 |
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| Data Collection Tools & Methods |
| Where: 3150 SW 3rd Ave - Coral Way, 8th Flr, Miami, 33129 |
| When: 10:00:00 AM |
Class description:
This two-hour training will help attendees understand how to collect effective, credible data for program evaluation.
Topics covered include:
• Identifying data sources
• Benefits and limitations of different data collection methods
• Data collection logistics
• Introduction to developing evaluation tools
• Ethics and confidentiality
No prerequisites
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| Spaces Left: 19 |
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| Wednesday, May 21, 2008 |
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| Bullying Prevention Tips |
| Where: 3150 SW 3rd Ave - Coral Way, 8th Flr, Miami, 33129 |
| When: 10:00:00 AM |
Class description:
This two-hour presentation will provide participants with useful methods, techniques and practical ideas to craft and implement Anti-Bulling Programs at your school-site. Upon completion of this session participants will be able to apply and implement tools and resources to cope with bullying. |
| Spaces Left: 20 |
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| Promotion and Prevention Quarterly Provider Meetings |
| Where: Miami Children’s Museum, 908 MacArthur Causeway |
| When: 10:30:00 AM |
Class description:
Updates for Promotion & Prevention providers, presentation on annual report, and review of new utilization reports.
Questions from P&P providers will be answered.
Maximum attendees: 2 people per organization.
Participants must register in advance.
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| Spaces Left: 50 |
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| Thursday, May 22, 2008 |
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| How to Use Your Data & Results |
| Where: North Dade Regional Library, 2455 NW 183rd St. |
| When: 10:00:00 AM |
Class description:
This two-hour training will help attendees learn how to use programmatic data to review programs performance, identify areas of improvement, assess for midterm corrections, planning purposes, and showcase strengths. This training will cover the following topics:
• Evaluate programs performance based on outputs (activities)
• Evaluate programs performance based on outcomes (impact)
• Factors that affecting outputs & outcomes
• Presenting data to different stakeholders
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| Spaces Left: 34 |
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| Friday, May 23, 2008 |
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| Tuesday, May 27, 2008 |
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| Executive Management Leadership Training For Starter Grants - Central |
| Where: 3150 SW 3rd Ave - Coral Way, 8th Flr, Miami, 33129 |
| When: 1:00:00 PM |
Class description:
This workshop will focus on achieving high performance through the application of situational leadership and management techniques. This interactive workshop will focus on building trust, managing conflict, solidifying commitments, establishing accountability, and achieving results.
Key Learning Objectives:
• Learn the difference between managing and leading
• Identify your preferred management style
• Learn how to best effectuate change in your organization
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| Spaces Left: 26 |
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| Wednesday, May 28, 2008 |
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| Executive Management Leadership Training For Starter Grants - North |
| Where: 3150 SW 3rd Ave - Coral Way, 8th Flr, Miami, 33129 |
| When: 10:00:00 AM |
Class description:
This workshop will focus on achieving high performance through the application of situational leadership and management techniques. This interactive workshop will focus on building trust, managing conflict, solidifying commitments, establishing accountability, and achieving results.
Key Learning Objectives:
• Learn the difference between managing and leading
• Identify your preferred management style
• Learn how to best effectuate change in your organization
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| Spaces Left: 12 |
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| Executive Management Leadership Training For Starter Grants - South |
| Where: 3150 SW 3rd Ave - Coral Way, 8th Flr, Miami, 33129 |
| When: 1:00:00 PM |
Class description:
This workshop will focus on achieving high performance through the application of situational leadership and management techniques. This interactive workshop will focus on building trust, managing conflict, solidifying commitments, establishing accountability, and achieving results.
Key Learning Objectives:
• Learn the difference between managing and leading
• Identify your preferred management style
• Learn how to best effectuate change in your organization
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| Spaces Left: 29 |
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| Friday, June 06, 2008 |
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| Development of Logic Models & Program Evaluation |
| Where: North Dade Regional Library, 2455 NW 183rd St. |
| When: 9:00:00 AM |
Class description:
Main Topics: Intensive Logic Models and Evaluation Plan Training that focuses on developing and measuring program outcomes.
These will be small group sessions designed to build skills based on the introductory logic model and outcomes training provided by The Trust. The trainings include reference materials, handouts and exercises for maximum impact. Come prepared to work!
Our Goal is to increase the ability of participants to write detailed and specific Logic Models and Evaluation Plans which are based on approved program budgets, services and activities and promise to provide solid evidence of a program’s effectiveness.
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| Spaces Left: 40 |
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| Tuesday, July 08, 2008 |
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| Community Needs Assessment and Information Resources Training |
| Where: South Dade Regional Library, 10750 SW 211 St. |
| When: 10:00:00 AM |
Class description:
• Do you know what your community’s needs are?
• Where and how do you find this information?
• How can you best relay this information to others?
The foundation of a strong needs assessment is one that successfully compiles, analyzes, and presents information in order to convey the necessity and rationale to support your proposal/position.
Whether your purpose is to better understand the needs of your community, develop a winning grant proposal, or advocate for a cause.
This two-hour presentation identifies specific strategies, methods and data resources for crafting concise and convincing needs assessments and discussions.
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| Spaces Left: 36 |
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| Tuesday, July 15, 2008 |
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| Collaboration & Decision Making |
| Where: 3150 SW 3rd Ave - Coral Way, 8th Flr, Miami, 33129 |
| When: 10:00:00 AM |
Class description:
There are many challenges associated with collaborating with other agencies that are doing similar projects in the community. This class will introduce the concepts of collaboration; the process of decision making within starting collaboratives and the factors influencing the success of collaboration.
Key Learning Objectives will include:
• Definitions of collaboration
• Preparing for a collaborative checklist
• Collaborative governance structures
• Basic components of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
• Collaborative standards
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| Spaces Left: 37 |
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| Wednesday, August 27, 2008 |
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| Developing an Evaluation Plan & Selecting an Evaluator |
| Where: North Dade Regional Library, 2455 NW 183rd St. |
| When: 10:00:00 AM |
Class description:
This three-hour training will help attendees learn the factors needed to develop an evaluation plan for their programs. Participants will also learn factors important in determining if and how to select an evaluator and the questions. The training aims to answer the following questions:
• Why should you have an evaluation plan? What are the evaluation goals?
• When should you develop an evaluation plan?
• What are the different types of stakeholders and what are their interests in your evaluation?
• How do you develop an evaluation plan?
• How to setup a timeline for evaluation activities?
• What products should you expect to get out of the evaluation?
• What is the purpose of hiring an external evaluator?
• How to define the role of an external evaluator?
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| Spaces Left: 38 |
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| Thursday, October 16, 2008 |
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| Collaboration & Decision Making |
| Where: North Dade Regional Library, 2455 NW 183rd St. |
| When: 10:00:00 AM |
Class description:
There are many challenges associated with collaborating with other agencies that are doing similar projects in the community. This class will introduce the concepts of collaboration; the process of decision making within starting collaboratives and the factors influencing the success of collaboration.
Key Learning Objectives will include:
• Definitions of collaboration
• Preparing for a collaborative checklist
• Collaborative governance structures
• Basic components of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
• Collaborative standards
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| Spaces Left: 42 |
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