There is no question that there are thousands of individuals in the American Jewish Community who care deeply about Jewish girls and would appreciate the opportunity to learn about this curriculum. We have received generous funding from The Hadassah Foundation to enable us to reach out to teachers, counselors, coaches, camp directors, rabbis, cantors, and youth educators who work with Jewish teenagers in day schools, youth programs, and camps. Through trainings we will widen the national network of Jewish educators who are committed to girls’ healthy development.
We are pleased to be able to offer Train the Trainer workshops for Bishvili and FOO at preeminent national conferences for Jewish Educators, Youth Workers and Clergy, as well at schools, Synagogues, and in individual communities. Leader training is extremely beneficial for ensuring quality program delivery and will help create a wide network of Jewish educators who are committed to girls’ healthy development. Many educators and youth workers attend their own organizations annual conferences and are not funded to travel for additional professional development, so The Hadassah Foundation has granted us funding to help us reach out to them at their conferences.
Trainings will consist of workshops at national conferences attended by teachers, counselors, coaches, rabbis, cantors, and youth educators who work with Jewish teenagers in day schools, youth programs, and camps to create an ever widening network of Jewish educators who are committed to girls’ healthy development. Participants will gain command of the FOO curriculum and Bishvili, The Jewish Guide, learn about key issues in girls’ development, understand the latest research on eating disorders, gain insight into ways Jewish culture and traditions can both bolster and reduce risk factors, and become equipped for identification and referral
The design of the trainings is one in which all attendees will be able to return home to their community and lead a new training. Trainings will include an introduction to the challenges girls face in the transition from girlhood to being young adolescents, patterns of risk and how to strengthen resiliency, and specific strategies (evidence based research) for strengthening girls’ healthy development. These upbeat 4-6 hour trainings are intensive, experiential and interactive. This ‘train the trainer’ approach (in which participants are fully aware that they are not only learning about girls development and the curriculum but being trained to do ongoing trainings) is a model that lends itself to replication anywhere and wide dissemination of the program.
Dr. Catherine Steiner-Adair has significant experience in this approach to training, and has done similar kinds of trainings for FOO, for the American Camping Association, and for the Jewish Camping Foundation (as well as consulted to over 350 schools, hospitals, clinics. For more information about her go to www.catherinesteineradair.com). This model allows for infinite replication, with the hope that all attendees will leave feeling empowered to train a new group of youth workers. Each training will include a participant evaluation form to insure that participant’s needs and expectations are being met, and trainings will be adjusted and re-evaluated according to participant response.
Any inquiries about trainings should be addressed to Dr. Catherine Steiner-Adair at csadair@comcast.net
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