NNED Launches First Community of Practice (posted 5/4)
Posted: May 10, 2010
What is a NNED Community of Practice (CoP)?
NNED Communities of Practice (CoP) are professional development opportunities for NNED Members to receive training on a specific promising practice that can be implemented in diverse communities. Members will ‘meet’ regularly using virtual learning platforms to receive training, discuss common practice challenges and successes, and share information about strategies and resources. To become a NNED Member free of charge, click here.
First NNED CoP: The Bienvenido Program
The NNED and the Northeastern Center have partnered to offer you training and continued coaching on the Bienvenido Program curriculum in order to help support the Latino immigrants of your community.
About the Bienvenido Program
The Bienvenido Program, operated by the Northeastern Center, is a mental health promotion program for Latinos that addresses issues that come with adjustment to life in another country. CoP members will receive training to implement this strengths-based educational curriculum to enhance awareness of mental health, clarify a participant’s personal goals for an enhanced quality of life, and develop skills to reduce risk for emotional and behavioral risks associated with mental distress. The Bienvenido curriculum is appropriate for use in various community settings, including behavioral service settings, schools, and outpatient mental health centers.
Each module of the nine week Bienvenido curriculum provides information
about topics related to the development of positive mental health and
enhanced well being. Modules are ordered to first introduce
participants to potentially new knowledge about mental health, clarify
their understanding of risk and protective factors associated with
mental health and quality of life, and develop skills to enhance
effective social functioning and community integration.
About the Bienvenido CoP
Gilberto Pérez Jr., MSW, ACSW, Bienvenido Program Director will provide 16 hours of Bienvenido Facilitator Training to 20 NNED members via Webinar (8 sessions, 2 hours each). Upon completion of the training, participants will receive monthly coaching as they implement the program in their communities. NNED members are encouraged to apply for the CoP in teams of 2 (from the same community) to support sustainability of the program.
- Webinar 1: Participants will learn about the Bienvenido Model and
the role of the Bienvenido Facilitator.
- Webinar 2: Participants will learn about positive mental health, how to foster positive mental health in communities, and will begin to think about programming for the Bienvenido Program.
- Webinar 3: Participants will learn about anger, common causes of
anger, how to teach others about these issues, and effective communication styles.
- Webinar 4: Participants will learn about play and
positive mental health and will begin to
identifying the organizations and services in their community that support Latino immigrants.
- Webinar 5: Participants will learn to identify the stages of
acculturation and the importance of positive mental health in a family
system.
- Webinar 6: Participants will learn about addicition, and the incidence of alcohol
and drug abuse in Latino immigrant populations going through the
process of acculturation.
- Webinar 7: Participants will learn how to implement the
Bienvenido Program in their communities.
- Webinar 8: Participants will be instructed on the administration
of the pre- and post- questionnaires of the curriculum that help to
measure the effectiveness of the program.
Key Steps, Dates:
- Find out more about the Bienvenido Program by clicking here.
- Read who is qualified to become a Bienvenido Facilitator by clicking here.
- Read the mutual agreement form by clicking here.
- Interested and qualified applicants complete an online application.
- May 20th - Weekly Bienvenido Facilitator Training begins.
- July 1st - Weekly Bienvenido Facilitator Training ends.
- Trainings are held every Thursday from 1:00-3:00pm ET.
- Monthly 1-hour follow-up coaching sessions: August 2010 – Jan 2011 (1st Monday of the month, 1:00 – 2:00 pm ET)
Questions:
Please contact us if you have any additional questions.
For Bienvenido Training questions:
Gilberto Pérez Jr., MSW, ACSW, Northeastern Center
P: 260-318-5042
E: gperez@nec.org
NNED CoP questions:
Rachele Espiritu, Ph.D., National Network to Eliminate Disparities in Behavioral Health
P: 281.990.8444
E: respiritu@changematrix.org
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