Course Descriptions

Basic Course Offerings

SAP Core Team Training...

prepares a team of school personnel to start a program. New teams are required to start with this training.

Length: 2 Days.

Times: 8:00 to 4:00 pm including a working lunch on both days.

Core Team Training is scheduled and offered to teams several times per year. Contact the Director of Programs to learn more.

SAP Team Booster Training...

helps operating SAP teams renew their mission, sharpen their skills and focus on the coming year, all in an environment of learning with members from other teams. It is designed for whole teams to attend in order to get the greatest benefit.

Either download and complete
the Training Registration Form
or
Register online for this training.

Safe Schools: Bullying Prevention and Conflict Management

We have designed this workshop to teach concrete, immediate, and experiential prevention and intervention skills that deal with the issues of conflict, anger, and bullying. Educators will learn what triggers conflict and anger; examine various conflict styles; explore competition as a possible root of conflict. This workshop offers concrete information on appropriate limits and boundaries; and makes clear the difference between assertive and aggressive behavior.

Expectations / Learning Objectives In this workshop participants will receive time-proven and practical daily strategies. Topics covered include:

1. Receiving updated data on violence trends in America’s schools
2. Examining patterns of bullying
3. Learning skills to help schools prevent bullying
4. Learning skills to stop the cycle of harassment and bullying
5. Conducting conflict and anger self assessments
6. Examining the conditions for harassment, bullying and violence
7. Examining the effects of violence on victims
8. Practice intervention strategies

Diversity and Multicultural Awareness

This one-day workshop is designed to address the behaviors of administrators, teachers and students. Participants will be introduced to a "Do as I Do" paradigm. Participants will focus on teaching tolerance and respect for diversity. The three basic learning goals are, learning social responsibility through service, clarifying our future visions by learning from the past, and creating a community of caring.

Basic values and beliefs must be addressed in our schools. Learning by serving promotes citizenship and social responsibility. Learning from the past examines racism and prejudice. Creating a community of caring teaches educators to practice what they preach as conscious role models.

In this workshop participants will:

• Identify, practice, and implement strategies to improve tolerance and respect for diversity in their schools.
• Identify and implement intervention skills to deal with racism and prejudice.
• Identify and implement life skills to create a school community of respect and caring.
• Gain a better understanding of one's own perspective of diversity (cultural, racial, gender and sexual orientation).

For Parents....(in conjunction with any training event)

Strategies for Raising Drug Free Kids

This seminar examines the signs and symptoms of adolescent drug involvement and other high-risk behaviors, and teaches paents to develop an action plan for improving the health and well being of their families.

Drugs and Alcohol - What Parents Need to Know

This course carefully reviews the high-risk behavior of today's children, including drug and alcohol abuse, depression/suicide, and eating disorders. Drugs and Alcohol: What Parents Need to Know provides up-to-date information. Parents will gain specific knowledge and practice the skills that will help them listen effectively and deal with conflict in a productie manner.

Parent Education Support and Family Intervention

When children experience problems, their parents do too. The proliferation of alcohol and drug use, abuse and addiction, gangs and violence , teen pregnancy, STDs and AIDS, depression and suicide, and eating disorders is greater than ever. Many of our children are afraid and in pain. Today's families must deal with issues that no one knew about in the past, and must prepare their children for what no one knows will be in the future.

All parents will benefit from this workshop because our focus is on teaching life skills. Skills for life include respect, responsibility, communication, conflict resolution, problem solving, etc. which help us effectively prevent problems and/or cope with problems when they arise. These skills are effective in all facets of a person's life --family, friends, and work.