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RFHF Training Schedule Overview or Detailed View (excel)
Cohort Map
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Healthy Start family support workers and children's library staff are only eligible to participate in RFHF when it is offered to their county. This is necessary for the evaluation process that will take place throughout the project and one year after it is complete.
Your cohort is the group of people (counties) who will be attending the same training as you. The training will take place in one of the counties in your cohort in an effort to minimize travel. Download and view the training schedule to find out which counties are in your cohort. You do not need to contact us to let us know if you want to participate, we will send you an application prior to your training.
Information will be updated as we plan specific training dates, locations, and schedules. Please check back closer to the date of your training for more details.
The following factors and criteria were used to develop the training schedule:
- The results of 2006 survey which asked Healthy Start family support workers and children’s library staff how ready they were to participate in RFHF.
- The Commission and State Library’s knowledge of current staffing or operating issues in libraries and Healthy Start programs as of Spring 2008.
- The percentage of parents reading to their children in each county as reported in Healthy Start of Oregon 2006-2007 Status Report.
- The RFHF budget supports training for 100 people each year.
- Counties attending a training together must be geographically close together to keep travel to a minimum.
- Some Healthy Start programs are structured regionally, not by county.
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Healthy Start family support workers and children's library staff participating in RFHF will attend two, two-day trainings.
Sample Agenda for the First Two-Day Training
Day one and part of day two of the first training will consist of introductions and intensive training in Every Child Ready to Read @ your library®. Day two of the first training will cover how to effectively work with at-risk families, how to implement outreach services, and how local Healthy Start family support workers and children’s library staff can partner to provide early literacy services to at-risk families in their community. Each participant will receive a resource kit that they get to keep. The resource kit contains materials for conducting Every Child Ready to Read @ your library® workshops for parents/caregivers, and resources for planning and presenting storytimes or one-on-one book sharing. After the first training, each participant will have three or four months to provide Every Child Ready to Read @ your library® training to at least five parents/caregivers.
Sample Agenda for the Second Two-Day Training
The second two-day training will take place three or four months after the first training. Prior to the second training, the RFHF Project Coordinator will informally survey participants to find out what parts of the Every Child Ready to Read @ your library® curriculum they would like to review and what additional topics they would like training in. In the morning on day one of the second training participants will review the parts of the curriculum they identified in their survey, and will discuss their experiences providing Every Child Ready to Read @ your library® training to parents/caregivers. Participants will have an opportunity to learn what worked for others and get suggestions to improve their Every Child Ready to Read @ your library® trainings.
RFHF participants will receive training on special topics in the afternoon on day one of the second training and the morning of day two of the second training. Special topic trainings will vary depending on what cohorts are most interested in learning about and availability of trainers. Special topics may include: serving English language learners, adult learning theory, working with special needs children, early literacy storytimes/book sharing, media literacy, or creating environments that foster early learning.
On day two of the second training, supervisors of RFHF participants will be invited to attend a luncheon at which participants will be awarded certificates of completion. After lunch, there will be a workshop on professional development, advocacy, promotion, and fundraising for supervisors. Participants will attend the afternoon workshop if their supervisors are unable to. After the second training, each participant will have three or four months to provide Every Child Ready to Read @ your library® training to at least ten parents/caregivers.
Two meals will be provided to all participants during each day of training. Participants traveling 70 miles or more to the training will receive a travel stipend to help cover the cost of gas, food, and lodging. Travel stipends will be issued to individual participants based on their additional meal requirements, distance traveled, and lodging needs; and U.S. General Services Administration Per Diem Rates as of the writing of the RFHF budget in 2007.
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| Questions About Trainings |
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For more information RFHF has developed guidance in response to questions asked by Year One participants, and answers to frequently asked questions from people interested in participating.
If you have any questions or would like more information about RFHF trainings please contact RFHF Project Coordinator Joann Contini, 503-761-2506.
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