Click here for the Life Skills Facilitator Training Brochure
Click here for our Letter to our Community Partners
Click here for the Application for the Life Skills Facilitator Training
The Junior League of Monmouth County (JLMC) is committed to empowering women in need to gain proficiency in the basic life skills critical to achieving independence. Based on an extensive community needs assessment, we learned that many local community organizations attempt to offer their clients basic life skills training, however constraints in funding, internal capacity and available effective programs often stand in the way. In response to this need, the JLMC launched a Life Skills Training Program to serve Monmouth County agencies. Last year we invited our Community Partners and their staff to participate in the first phase of our new program, a Nurturing Parenting Facilitator Training delivered by Dr. Stephen Bavolek, author of the Nurturing Parenting Program.
As we move into the second phase of our program, we would like to invite our Community Partners and their staff to attend a Life Skills Facilitator Training Workshop. We are hosting two consecutive two-day Tackling the Tough SkillsTM Life Skills Trainings at our headquarters at 55 Center Street in Rumson, NJ. Each participant will be given a copy of the 218-page Tackling the Tough Skills curriculum. You are invited to attend either:
• Monday and Tuesday, October 19th and 20th, 2009 from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm Monday, 9:00 am–12 noon Tuesday OR
• Tuesday and Wednesday October 20 and 21, 2009 from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm Tuesday, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm Wednesday.
The training will be delivered by Rosilee Trotta, author of Tackling the Tough Skills: A Curriculum Building Skills for Work and LifeTM (http://extension.missouri.edu/tough-life-skills/). Ms. Trotta has a Masters in Social Work, is a licensed clinical social worker and also holds degrees in nursing, psychology and sociology. As the Urban Youth and Family Specialist for University of Missouri Extension, Ms. Trotta developed the Tackling the Tough SkillsTM in collaboration with the University of Missouri and community partners to help give hard-to-reach or at-risk clients the skills necessary to make the transition into the workplace. The curriculum assumes that in order to secure and maintain employment, clients first have to be able to cope with challenges and stress within the workplace and family. The curriculum takes an interactive approach that teaches critical thinking skills through a series of exercises using reflection, small group work and role plays. The curriculum addresses topics including Attitude, Responsibility, Communication, Decision Making/Problem Solving and Preparing for the Workplace.
The JLMC’s goals for the Life Skills Facilitator Trainings are:
• To build capacity in agencies throughout Monmouth County that serve women in need to promote parenting skills that result in more positive and stable home environments.
• To establish the Tackling the Tough SkillsTM Life Skills Training as the basis for the JLMC’s workshops designed to supplement the life skills training conducted at our partner agencies.
• To increase the number of effective life skills workshops in the county.
By offering two back-to-back sessions, we hope to make it feasible for our Community Partners to send as many of their staff members as they feel is appropriate. There is no cost to participate in this event, but we do ask attendees to complete an application form so that we may better understand the impact this training will have on their agency. The number of participants in the trainings is limited only by the space available at the training site, but we encourage attendees to send in their application quickly as space will be filled on a first-come first-served basis. Applications are due by October 7, 2009. Click here to download your application.
The JLMC is an organization of women whose goal is to create permanent positive change in the lives of women and children in our county through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. The JLMC has trained hundreds of volunteer members in its 70 year history and has created and developed hundreds of projects and programs in the area benefiting families. Its purpose is exclusively educational and charitable. The JLMC reaches out to women of all races, religions, and national origins who have an interest and commitment to voluntarism. We have approximately 300 active and sustaining members, trained as accomplished collaborators who build coalitions, identify needs and develop effective and responsive programs to serve our community.
We hope you will take advantage of this opportunity to learn about the Tackling the Tough SkillsTM Life Skills Training and build on your organization’s expertise in delivering life skills to benefit your clients and their children. Please feel free to contact us with questions, comments or ideas.
Andrea Luker- Community Director anluker@aol.com
Bennett Coleman, Committee Responsible for Empowering Women (CREW), Chair bennettcoleman@mac.com
Christine Purcell, CREW, Assistant-Chair chrisschneid87@mac.com
