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Kids/Youth Connection (Combined Training from Rainbow Days)

Tuesday 22-Sep-09 8:30 AM to Wednesday 23-Sep-09 4:30 PM CDT

We were unable to register you for this event as the event deadline has passed or the maximum number of seats available has been reached.

Total Seats: 25

Reserved: 18

Abilene Regional Council on Alcohol & Drug Abuse

104 Pine Str. Ste. 4
Abilene Texas 79601
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Phone: (325) 673-3503

Speaker Kathy Daley

Company: Rainbow Days, Inc.

Event Description

Kids’ Connection and Youth Connection - Rainbow Days’ Curriculum-Based Support Group (CBSG®) Programs are multi-cultural preventive interventions for selective and indicated populations of children and youth, developmental ages 4-15, whose high-risk situations, attitudes and behaviors place them at elevated risk for substance abuse, delinquency and violence. Kids’ Connection and Youth Connection are evidence-based and use a support group and trained facilitator to teach children and youth a set of essential life skills to help them learn how to: cope with difficult family situations, resist peer pressure, set and achieve goals, and refuse alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.

CBSG® Program Facilitator Manual: The same age groupings, topics, format and activities are used in all CBSG® Program implementation settings. Spanish translations of program materials are available. Because different settings have unique needs, there are separate CBSG® Program Facilitator Manuals for the following populations:

Kids’ Connection (For Developmental Ages 4-12) for use in school and community based settings
Youth Connection (For Developmental Ages 10-15) for use in school and community based settings

Kids’ Connection and Youth Connection include the following features:

Participants are grouped by age and developmental level, with group size being limited to 6 to 12 members, depending on age and development.

The Kids’ Connection and Youth Connection CBSG® Program curricula for schools and community-based sites do not allow new members after the second session. The version for shelters, group homes and transitional settings allows an exception to this rule.

Typically, there are 10 sessions for selective populations and 12 sessions for indicated populations, plus optional pre/post evaluation survey sessions. Session duration is the same period of time as one regular school class period, ranging from 30 minutes for very young group participants to one hour for older group participants. Sessions are conducted either weekly or bi-weekly depending on the setting.

All group sessions are held in private, child-appropriate settings.

Comments

If you are a DSHS-funded participant and need to order curriculum for this training, please enter your request for each participant where it says "Optional comments for the event planner" in the registration process. Be sure to indicate whether you need Kids' OR Youth Connection curriculum.

If you do NOT need to order curriculum, please indicate that as well.

Curriculum must be ordered one week in advance so any registration after that will not have curriculum ordered.

Discount Codes for free registration and curriculum materials are available for the following groups:

1. Employees of organizations that are DSHS-funded as a YPU, YPS, YPI, or CCP program for this curriculum.
2. Persons implementing this DSHS-approved curriculum in collaboration with a DSHS-funded YPU, YPS, YPI, or CCP program. The collaborating entity must have been listed in the DSHS-funded proposal for YPU, YPS, YPI program(s) or must be a representative of the funded CCP program(s).

To get your Discount Code, contact your Prevention Resource Center. To find your Prevention Resource Center, go to this address: http://www.statewidetraining.org/en/cms/?8

Those who are not eligible for free registration/Discount Code may register here by using one of the following options:

Pay Online
Pay by Check
Pay by PO

Curriculum / Materials
1. If you are eligible for free registration, one curriculum is included per person, just indicate your needs as instructed above when you register.
2. If you are not eligible for free registration/curriculum, you must arrange to purchase a curriculum by calling Rainbow Days, Inc. at 1-800-899-7828 prior to the training. THIS IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY. Please allow a minimum of 10 days in order to ensure you have your copy at the training.
3. If you already have a copy, please bring your copy to the training.

Coordinated Training Services (CTS) reserves the right to cancel any training for which a minimum of five (5) participants have not pre-registered within 10 days prior to the training.

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