Helping children, families, and communities grow stronger together.

Lunch and Learn: Elm City Fellowship for Children and Families Information Session

The Elm City Fellowship for Children and Families, a leadership development initiative of the Annie E. Casey Foundation and its direct service agency, Casey Family Services, is an executive training program designed to foster leadership within New Haven’s nonprofit and public sectors. The Fellowship explicitly strives to increase the pool of diverse, visionary leaders with the confidence and competence to create supports and systems that help families achieve better outcomes. Come learn about the Fellowship model, selection criteria and participant benefits.

If you are interested in attending this lunch and learn, held from noon to 1:30 p.m., at 127 Church Street, New Haven, contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) at 203.401.6964.

Workshop: Effective Program Design in Workforce Development

There are a wide variety of models and program designs that are used to increase the effectiveness of attaching hard-to-serve populations to the labor force. A few examples include: Work First, Sheltered Workshops, Job Search Readiness Training, among others. Within each model is a mix of services offered in various degrees of intensity, such as counseling, work supports, job development, post-placement counseling, educational services, assessment and case management. This session will provide an overview of the long-term results of the models and guidance on best practices for the future.

Presenter: Jodie Sue Kelly, Cygnet Associates

If you are interested in attending this workshop, held 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at 127 Church Street, New Haven, contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) at 203.401.6964.

Workshop: Motivational Interviewing for Workforce Development

Motivational Interviewing is a client-centered, evidence-based directive method for enhancing a person’s intrinsic motivation to change by exploring and resolving their ambivalence. The method differs from more “coercive” or externally driven methods for motivating change as it does not impose change that may be inconsistent with the person’s own values, beliefs, or wishes; but rather supports change in a manner that is consistent with the person’s own values and concerns. This hands-on, intensive two-day training will discuss a new effective approach in working with challenging populations and provide participants with an opportunity to explore creative ways of integrating a variety of approaches into an effective therapeutic intervention.

Presenter: Stephen Andrew, Health Education & Training Institute

If you are interested in attending a workshop, held 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at 127 Church Street, New Haven, contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) at 203.401.6964. Please note, the second day of this session occurs March 9, also from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., in the same location.

Workshop: Workload Management for Busy Nonprofits

Nonprofit employees continue to face the reality of technology’s increased role in completing their day-to-day job responsibilities. Social media, the fast pace of mobile computing, and the multigenerational workforce’s response to it can bring daily challenges that only those in a learning orientation can navigate with success. This requires employees to be diligent in managing time and efficiently completing tasks. This half-day workshop will assist participants in developing skills to increase efficiency, productivity, and results in the workplace. Specifically, participants will learn:
how teams work and how this warrants the need for workload management;
tips to minimize stress;

• to improve task management by reducing distractions and prioritizing;
• email management techniques to increase productivity and de-clutter one’s inbox;
• daily planning strategies to schedule workload and task planning; and
• team tools to increase communication about workload with coworkers and clients.

Presenter: Kenya Rutland, KJR Consulting

If you are interested in attending this workshop, held 9 a.m. to noon, at 127 Church Street, New Haven, contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) at 203.401.6964.