New Mexico GRADS Dads

Basic Facilitator Training ____Socorro, New Mexico

NM GRADS State Office

Day ONE

Wednesday October 26, 2005 Time: 1:00 to 5:00 PM

Introduction to Training

• Welcome and Introductions

• Connecting Activity/Processing
• Parent Group Facilitators’ (PGFs) Expectations/Processing
• Overview of PGF Training
• Training Group Norms/Processing

Meld Program Overview

• Affiliate or Network Site History Mini-Lecture/Processing

• Meld National Office History Mini-Lecture
• Philosophy/Processing
• Parts of a Meld Program

• What Meld Is/Not Activity

Support

• Overview and Definition of Support
• Support Styles

• Support Skills and Practice
• Sharing Personal Beliefs, Experiences and Feelings
• Setting Limits
• Support at Group
• Use of Meeting Plan

• Empathy Experience/Processing
• Mock Group Meeting
• Questions and Answer Period

Close Day One

Home work: Choose one lesson from the Meld for Young Dads manuals,

work in pairs to create meeting plans for tomorrow’s “teach back” lessons.

Thirty minutes will be allotted for each group.

Day TWO

Thursday, October 27, 2005 Time: 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM

Sharing Time/Processing

Connecting Activity/Processing

Information

• Overview of Information

• Discussion: How Parents Learn/ Adults or Adolescents
• Overview of Curriculum
• Review Curriculum

• Examine Learning Activities
• Introduction to Curriculum Practice

Meld certification

• Requirements to become Meld certified

Group Coordination

· Overview of Group Coordination

· Facilitation

o Stages of a Group

· Practice Facilitation Skills/Processing

· Problem Solving

o Personal Problems of Group Member

o Group Problems

· Practice Personal and Group Problem Solving Skills/Processing

Day Three

Friday October 28, 2005 Time: 8:30 to 12:00 PM

Team Building

Overview of Team building

• Exercise in team building

NM GRADS/Dads Formalities

• Required forms for GRADS Dads

Summary of Training

o Evaluations

o Certificates