NJSACC Afterschool FLASH

Getting ready for summer! Training in Garfield !

Getting ready for summer!
A training sponsored by the Boys and Girls Club of Garfield in partnership with NJSACC, the network for New Jersey’s afterschool communities.

Where: Boys and Girls Club of Garfield

490 Midland Avenue

Garfield, NJ

When: June 6, 2009

Time: 9am-12:05pm

Cost: $10 per person

Participants will attend two of the sessions described below. The first session will run from 9am-10:30am and the second session will run from 10:35am-12:05pm.

Session 1

Workshop A

Promoting Positive Behavior through Programming.
Quality Afterschool programs offer activities that are fun, enriching and educational. In addition, Afterschool programs have a great “out of school” challenge when it comes to children’s behavior. This workshop will provide strategies for staff to develop activities and programming that promote positive behavior while ensuring the activities are enriching, educational and age appropriate.

Sarah Cruz

Workshop B

Building the Team through Effective Communication
Effective communication skills can lead to improved relationships and better team work. In this highly interactive workshop participants will learn proven techniques that teach how to express yourself clearly and confidently, recognize communication barriers and communicate effectively through active listening skills.
Dawn Rannie-White

Workshop C

Games, Games, Games

Keep the ball rolling with new ideas for non-competitive games to play with school-age children. A variety of cooperative games that can be utilized with large and small multi-age groups will be taught in this fun and interactive workshop. Be prepared to participate! This workshop is for new staff.

Dennis Groomes

Session 2

Workshop D

Promoting Positive Behavior through Programming.
Quality Afterschool programs offer activities that are fun, enriching and educational. In addition, Afterschool programs have a great “out of school” challenge when it comes to children’s behavior. This workshop will provide strategies for staff to develop activities and programming that promote positive behavior while ensuring the activities are enriching, educational and age appropriate.

Sarah Cruz

Workshop E

Building the Team through Effective Communication Effective communication skills can lead to improved relationships and better team work. In this highly interactive workshop participants will learn proven techniques that teach how to express yourself clearly and confidently, recognize communication barriers and communicate effectively through active listening skills. Dawn Rannie-White

Workshop F

Games, Games, Games

Keep the ball rolling with new ideas for non-competitive games to play with school-age children. A variety of cooperative games that can be utilized with large and small multi-age groups will be taught in this fun and interactive workshop. Be prepared to participate! This workshop is for new staff.

Dennis Groomes

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Registrations may be faxed to 908-789-4237
CUT OFF FOR REGISTRATION , June 2nd, 2009.
or mailed to: NJSACC, 231 North Avenue West #363, Westfield, NJ 07090.

No Walk-in registrations please!

You must call 908-789-0259 ask to speak to Jessica to confirm your registration.

Getting ready for summer!
A training sponsored by the Boys and Girls Club of Garfield in partnership with NJSACC, the network for New Jersey’s afterschool communities.

Where: Boys and Girls Club of Garfield

490 Midland Avenue

Garfield, NJ

When: June 6, 2009

Time: 9am-12:05pm

Cost: $10 per person

Participants will attend two of the sessions described below. The first session will run from 9am-10:30am and the second session will run from 10:35am-12:05pm.

Session 1

Workshop A

Promoting Positive Behavior through Programming.
Quality Afterschool programs offer activities that are fun, enriching and educational. In addition, Afterschool programs have a great “out of school” challenge when it comes to children’s behavior. This workshop will provide strategies for staff to develop activities and programming that promote positive behavior while ensuring the activities are enriching, educational and age appropriate.

Sarah Cruz

Workshop B

Building the Team through Effective Communication
Effective communication skills can lead to improved relationships and better team work. In this highly interactive workshop participants will learn proven techniques that teach how to express yourself clearly and confidently, recognize communication barriers and communicate effectively through active listening skills.
Dawn Rannie-White

Workshop C

Games, Games, Games

Keep the ball rolling with new ideas for non-competitive games to play with school-age children. A variety of cooperative games that can be utilized with large and small multi-age groups will be taught in this fun and interactive workshop. Be prepared to participate! This workshop is for new staff.

Dennis Groomes

Session 2

Workshop D

Promoting Positive Behavior through Programming.
Quality Afterschool programs offer activities that are fun, enriching and educational. In addition, Afterschool programs have a great “out of school” challenge when it comes to children’s behavior. This workshop will provide strategies for staff to develop activities and programming that promote positive behavior while ensuring the activities are enriching, educational and age appropriate.

Sarah Cruz

Workshop E

Building the Team through Effective Communication Effective communication skills can lead to improved relationships and better team work. In this highly interactive workshop participants will learn proven techniques that teach how to express yourself clearly and confidently, recognize communication barriers and communicate effectively through active listening skills. Dawn Rannie-White

Workshop F

Games, Games, Games

Keep the ball rolling with new ideas for non-competitive games to play with school-age children. A variety of cooperative games that can be utilized with large and small multi-age groups will be taught in this fun and interactive workshop. Be prepared to participate! This workshop is for new staff.

Dennis Groomes

Name:
Program Name:
Program Address:
City:
State:
Zip Code:
Phone:
Fax:
Email:

Please pick one workshop from each session – write only the letter of the workshop in the space below

Session 1 ____________ Session 2 ____________

Payment Information – Please fill out ALL spaces below for payment. If paying by check please make check out to NJSACC

Check number or Purchase Order number:
Credit Card – Visa or Mastercard ONLY
Please circle: Visa or Mastercard

Credit Card Number:
Expiration Date:
Zip code for billing address:
Name on card:
************************************************

Registrations may be faxed to 908-789-4237
CUT OFF FOR REGISTRATION , June 2nd, 2009.
or mailed to: NJSACC, 231 North Avenue West #363, Westfield, NJ 07090.

No Walk-in registrations please!

You must call 908-789-0259 ask to speak to Jessica to confirm your registration.

Effective Management Training

REGISTER EARLY!

August 11th, 12th and 13th, 2009

Once again NJSACC is bringing the National Institute on Out-of-School Time from Wellesley, MA to New Jersey.

Funding in part provided by New Jersey Department of Human Services, Division of Family Development as part of a Federal CCDF Block Grant Earmark and the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as amended by No Child Left Behind, Title IV, Part B, 21st Century Community Learning Center (21st CCLC) grant funds awarded to the New Jersey Department of Education.

When: Tuesday 8/11th, Wednesday 8/12th, & Thursday 8/13th
9:00am-3:00pm

Where: First Baptist Church of Westfield,
170 Elm Street, Westfield, NJ 07090

Public Transit: 5 minute walk from Westfield, NJ Transit stop on Raritan Valley line.

Cost: $175 which includes continental breakfast, lunch and materials

Hotel Info: http://www.boylehotels.com/bwwi-index.asp
Hotel fees are NOT included in registration fee.

Westfield, NJ Info: http://westfieldtoday.com/

Who should attend?

• New to the field Directors
• Experienced Directors
• Afterschool Coordinators
• 21st CCLC Project Directors
• Evaluators of afterschool programs

What:
This training will focus on the administrative components of a quality afterschool program. Included will be effective systems to manage fiscal resources and administrative policies, evaluation and outcomes, workplace issues, strategies for recruitment and retention, staff development and training, ideas for building a family-responsive program, building a “learning organization,” leadership and management styles, and working collaboratively with schools and communities.

About the presenters:

The presenters for this session work with the National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST ). For more than two decades, NIOST has been the national leader in providing highly interactive, research based training for directors and staff, school administrators, community leaders, and others committed to providing high quality afterschool programs for children and youth.

Ellen Clippinger, MS Ed :

is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of AYS, Inc., a not-for-profit youth-serving agency operating over 50 programs in a four-county area in the Indianapolis community. Ellen has been instrumental in piloting various types of programs to meet the needs of working parents-early childhood programs housed in school settings, wrap-around kindergarten programs within the school, as well as winter and spring breaks and summer camps. A summer camp devoted to arts education with a culminating final performance by the children and youth from the camp is now in its fifth season.

Molly McNally-Dunn:

has been an advocate for the school-age child for thirty years. This passion began professionally as an elementary teacher in Massachusetts and in New York. She then journeyed to early childhood care and education as a nutrition consultant to family child care providers and a teacher for pre-licensing of family child care homes in Colorado. She has worked in both the private and public sectors and currently administers fourteen school-based school-age care programs for Red Rocks Community College in Lakewood, Colorado

Presented in partnership with NJSACC

Questions:
Please call NJSACC at 908-789-0259 with any questions. Registration form below.

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Effective Management for Afterschool

Registration Form

Participants must attend each day: Tue/Wed/Thu 8/11-8/13/09

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Are you a 21st CCLC Grantee? Yes___ No___

Registration Information:
• Registration is limited
• Registrations must be received by August 3rd, 2009.
• Cancellations must be made by August 3rd, 2009.
• No refunds will be given after August 13th, 2009 however, substitutions may be made at any time.

FAX Complete the registration form and fax it to our secure fax line at
908 -789-4237.
MAIL Complete the registration form and mail it to:
NJSACC, 231 North Avenue West #363, Westfield, NJ 07090
Enclose a check or money order for the appropriate amount, made payable to NJSACC.
We also accept purchase orders.