Showing events on January 22, 2016
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Field Instructor Course
January 22, 2016 - 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM ET
Informational course hosted by OFI for all Field Instructors.
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The Effects of Abuse & Neglect on Children, Adolescents & Transitional-age Youth
January 22, 2016 - 9:00 AM to 12:15 PM ET
This training will focus on exploring the impact of abuse and neglect on children, adolescents, and transitional-age youth. Current research about how abuse and neglect affects the development of children, adolescents, and transitional age youth over the life span will be discussed. A focus on relationship building and engagement skills needed to work effectively with this population to enhance positive outcomes will be presented and demonstrated using role plays and small group discussion.
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Concepts of Leadership and Management in Community Benefit Organizations
January 22, 2016 - 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM ET
Generally speaking, "management" is getting work done through others." Leadership is creating and sustaining change without crisis. This minicourse explores these concepts in the context of community benefit organizations[CBOs](aka, nonprofits). While CBOs are organizations, and thus share a lot of features with other kinds of organisations (corporate, governmental) they have many elements of unique structure and stricture.They tend to work with "wicked problems"; they have a different governance structure from corporate and governmental organizations; they have a strong sense of mission and purpose, which is highly motivating but also can lead to under-investment in infrastructure both hardware (physical plant, etc) and software (employee training and development)...
Registration for this course is closed. Visit the CE Course Catalog for more offerings.