Building Resiliency in Children and Families: Training of Trainers

This training offers youth and family serving organizations three fully integrated techniques to map, manage, and mobilize the assets of program participants to develop programs that better meet participant needs and support greater civic engagement. Participants learn to:

• apply Person-Centered and Community Centered Planning strategies;
• combine asset mapping with the 40 Developmental Assets for greater synergy;
• create and sustain Circles of Support around children, youth and families;
• carry out strategic conversations to identify the needs, hopes and dreams of target populations; and
• connect people to resources that will help them achieve their own evolving goals.
  
  

Seven common factors generate energy around positive youth and community development initiatives. They are essential to beginning and sustaining success. Participants learn to consistently apply the Seven Drivers of Success--including the precipitant, champions, catalyst, motivation, framework, setting and evaluation--to their own new or existing initiatives.

Mobilize Your Coalition! Review a Community Connection Asset Mobilization Process (CCAMP) to learn how to:

• mobilize residents, businesses, schools, churches, health organizations, law enforcement, etc., to work together at the local level;
• map, manage and mobilize vast amounts of local social capital and put it to use--along with built-in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology--to match local resources to local needs;
• capture and organize community level data to support your outcomes and impacts.

Mobilize Youth! CCAMP has proven especially effective in the hands of youth, i.e., those who have grown up with electronic devices and use them for social networking. It is the perfect tool to build capacity for civic engagement by developing youth leadership and simultaneously achieve the goals of all residents who want to live in, contribute to, and sustain communities that thrive!

• Be introduced to Village Building, the core philosophy of the Community Connection Asset Mapping Process.
• Review selected functions of the CCAMP resource-bank database on the internet, including data input, flex reports, and geomapping.
• Participate in a dialogue about how CCAMP can meet your specific youth and community building needs.

Transformational Evaluation Through Story Mapping I:

Journey Mapping for Success
Do you want to track the progress of individuals and/or groups (i.e., program participants, youth and families, staff, funders, partner organizations, etc.) for more effective assessment and planning purposes? Tap into the power that Robert Atkinson describes when he says, "There is a power in storytelling that can transform our lives."

Participants become familiar with the research of social scientist Joseph Campbell. Learn to positively impact both individuals and initiatives through:

• engaging youth and families as the heroes of their own journeys;
• capturing stories in ways that help people measure, share and celebrate accomplishments, outcomes and impacts;
• recognizing obstacles as real, experiential opportunities for building both character and projects/initiatives;
• invigorating small group meetings using the journey/story mapping process; and
• creating storyboards, strategic plans and legacy gifts at annual meetings, retreats, etc., i.e., over the long term to strengthen your team and forward your mission.

Book this training for your group! Contact Greg Ryan at gryan@ctassets.org or 860.571.8463.

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Results Mapping to Capture Outcomes and Impacts
Do you want to capture the results--i.e., outcomes and impacts--of your programs and initiatives and use this information for outcome-based planning? Based on the work of educational psychologist Edgar Dale and research scientist Barry Kibble, participants learn to:

• operationalize the Four Principles of Results Mapping;
• increase both the retention and application of what is taught/learned when you train or hold group/community events;
• conduct follow-up results-mapping surveys to track the application of learnings and the impacts of events and trainings you've held;
• write and disseminate research-based stories about local impacts and outcomes;
• formulate results for presentations to supervisors, community boards, funders, coalition, and the general public; and
• undertake outcome-based plannning--i.e., plan future activities, projects, programs and initiatives based on actual local outcomes and results!

Ongoing

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The Community Connection Asset Mobilization Process

CCAMP Implementation Training is a series of state and national teleconferences provided to CCAMP System licensees for capacity building and leadership development. Licensees are contacted before the webinar and post-webinar to discuss their participation. Below,* the Readings and Resources for Webinars are noted with page numbers that reference the latest version of the CCAMP System Handbook. Participants should download the latest version of the CCAMP System Handbook and review these materials before the pre-webinar telephone call.

April 17, 2009

8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Crown Plaza Hotel
100 Berlin Road
Cromwell, CT 06416

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