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Institute Trainer Overview

Name Game

Someone born in the same month as you:

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 Someone who traveled over 300 miles to attend the Institute:
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Someone born east of the Mississippi:

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 Someone who has traveled out of the United States:
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Someone who speaks a language other than English:

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 Someone with the same number of children as you:

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Someone who has worked in the prevention field for more than 10 years:

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 Someone who has the same favorite food as you:

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Someone who can play the piano:

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 Someone who exercises at least 3 times a week:
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Community Meetings

During the Institute, community meetings are held at the beginning and close of each day (except on Day One morning and Day Five afternoon). These meetings involve all participants from all the teams and all staff, trainers, and guests. Community meetings provide an opportunity to establish a connection among the teams. There is also time to share information and announcements for the whole group.

Each morning community meeting includes an "energizer," which is a brief (often playful) activity that helps to get participant's energy levels engaged.

Afternoon community meetings include a change for participants to give direct verbal feedback to the training staff. Usually an activity called "pluses and wishes" is used. In this activity, participants are invited to brainstorm two lists:
 


These "pluses and wishes" are discussed in the training staff meeting each evening and the training coordinator tries to respond to any changes or let the participants know how we intend to respond to the feedback in the following morning's opening session.

These afternoon community meetings always end with a closing activity that helps to re-establish the link among the participants and is often reflective in nature.

Although community meetings vary at each of the training events, a general day-by-day agenda follows.
 

Day One, Afternoon Community Meeting

  1. Announcements

    2.  
  2. Pluses and Wishes Participant Feedback

    3.  
  3. Reminder to turn in Blue Pre-training Evaluation Sheets

    4.  
  4. Reminder that the Name Game sheets will be collected right before lunch tomorrow

    5.  
  5. Closing Activity

Day Two, Morning Community Meeting

  1. Energizer Activity

    2.  
  2. Announcements

    3.  
  3. Reminder about collecting name game sheets right before lunch today

    4.  
  4. Review of yesterday's pluses and wishes

    5.  
  5. Review agenda for the day

    6.  
  6. Brief descriptions of day two afternoon workshops by each of the workshop facilitators

Day Two, Afternoon Community Meeting

  1. Announcements

    2.  
  2. Pluses and Wishes Participant Feedback

    3.  
  3. Announcement and distribution of prizes for winning teams for the name game

    4.  
  4. Preview of tomorrow's session

    5.  
  5. Closing Activity

Day Three, Morning Community Meeting

  1. Energizer Activity

    2.  
  2. Announcements

    3.  
  3. Review of yesterday's pluses and wishes

    4.  
  4. Review agenda for the day

Day Three, Afternoon Community Meeting

  1. Announcements

    2.  
  2. Pluses and Wishes Participant Feedback

    3.  
  3. Brief descriptions of day four morning workshops by each of the workshop facilitators

    4.  
  4. Preview of tomorrow's activities

    5.  
  5. Announcement about the need for an actor/actress from each team to take part in the closing skit.

    6.  
  6. Closing Activity

Day Four, Morning Community Meeting

  1. Energizer Activity

    2.  
  2. Announcements

    3.  
  3. Presentation by conference coordinator on the expense reimbursement process and forms

    4.  
  4. Review of yesterday's pluses and wishes

    5.  
  5. Review agenda for the day

Day Four, Afternoon Community Meeting

  1. Announcements

    2.  
  2. Pluses and Wishes Participant Feedback

    3.  
  3. Overview of other training available from CCPT and CSAP

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  4. Preview of tomorrow's activities

    5.  
  5. Announcement that the rehearsal for the closing skit will be at 8:00 a.m. on Friday morning in this room. (Make sure everyone has a copy of the script.

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  6. Closing Activity

Day Five, Morning Community Meeting

  1. Energizer Activity

    2.  
  2. Announcements

    3.  
  3. Reminder to complete pink post-institute evaluation forms and turn them into your team facilitator.

    4.  
  4. Review of yesterday's pluses and wishes

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  5. Review agenda for the day
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Generic Team Process Questions*

Objectives

Questions

  1. What is the relevance of this information to our team? Who will use the information with our home organization, our partnership, and our community?

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  2. How will we know that our planning and decisions address the needs of the diverse groups in our community? Are all groups really involved? Do they feel themselves an integral part of the partnership?

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  3. As plans and decisions are made, how will we build a sense of ownership into the community? Will community neighborhood groups have a balanced share of power over what happens in the community?

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  4. How will we know that what we are doing about the issue contributes to your mission and goals?

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  5. What are the key questions for assessment purposes that need to be clarified with regard to this issue? How will we know that what we are doing is working?
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CSAP's Community Partnership Training Institute Schedule

 
Day 1: Establishing a Common Framework Day 2: Internal Assessment of the Partnership Day 3: Valuing Cultural Diversity Day 4: External Assessment: Understanding the Community Day 5: Action Planning and Re-entry Issues
8:30 - 10:00 Unit 1A: General Session - Introduction: A Community Prevention Paradigm
 
 
 
 

10:00 - 10:15 Break

10:15 - 11:45 Unit 1B: Team Time - The Vision of the Partnership
 

8:30 - 8:45 Community Meeting

8:45 - 10:15 Unit 2A: General Session - Prevention Strategies for the Community
 
 
 
 

10:15 - 10:45 Break

10:45 - 12:00 Unit 2B: Team Time - The Partnership's Prevention Philosophy

 8:30 - 8:45 Community Meeting
 
 

8:45 - 10:30 Unit 3A: General Session - Enhancing Cultural Awareness
 
 
 
 

10:30 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 12:00 Unit 3B: Team Time - Exploring the Diversity of our Community
 

8:30 - 8:45 Community Meeting

8:45 - 9:30 Unit 4A: General Session - Community Mobilization

9:30 - 11:00 Unit 4B: Concurrent Workshops - Reaching Out to the Community

  1. Building Resources
  2. Making Evaluation Participatory
  3. Marketing Your Partnership
  4. Networking and Collaboration
  5. Organizing Community Meetings
  6. Tools for Community Assessment
  7. Meeting with State NPN Representative
11:00 - 11:15 Break

11:15 - 12:00 Unit 4C: Team Time - Sharing and Applying ideas from the Workshops

 8:30 - 8:45 Community Meeting

8:45 - 9:45 Unit 5A: Dialogues

  1. Cultural Diversity
  2. Community Empowerment
  3. Evaluation
  4. Inclusion
  5. Leadership
  6. Focus Group
9:45 - 11:30 Unit 5B: Team Meetings - Reentry Planning
 
 
 
 

11:30 - 12:00 Light Snack Break

12:00 - 1:00 Unit 5C: Reentry Plan Sharing

1:00 - 2:00 Unit 5D: General Session - Institute Closing
11:45 - 1:15 Lunch 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
1:15 - 2:45 Unit 1C: Sharing the Vision with other Teams
 
 
 
 

2:45 - 3:15 Break

3:15 - 4:00 Unit 1D: General Session - Developing a Community Planning System
 

4:00 - 4:45 Unit 1E: From Vision to Community Planning

4:45 - 5:00 Community Meeting

 1:30 - 3:00 Unit 2C: Concurrent Workshops - Building and Sustaining the Partnerships
  1. Conflict and Negotiation Skills
  2. Decision-Making Skills
  3. Leadership Skills
  4. Team-Building Skills
  5. Organizational Structure
  6. Tools for Internal Assessment
  7. Meeting with CSAP Project Officer 


3:00 - 3:15 Break

3:15 - 4:15 Unit 2D: Team Time - Sharing and Applying Ideas from the Workshops

4:15 - 5:45 Unit 2E: Team Time - Internal Assessment of the Partnership
 

5:45 - 6:00 Community Meeting

 1:30 - 2:45 Unit 3C: Developing Culturally Competent Prevention Systems
 
 
 
 

2:45 - 3:00 Community Meeting
 
 
 

1:30 - 3:00 Unit 4D: Team Time - Simulation Exercise
 
 
 
 

3:00 - 3:30 Break

3:30 - 5:45 Unit 4E: Team Time - Assessing the Community beyond the Partnership
 

5:45 - 6:00 Community Meeting

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