FACILITATORS

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**KEEP IN TOUCH
Log on to find facilitators or workshop participants, and to add potential participants
**LATEST NEWS
**AVP/CA STEERING COMMITTEE MINUTES
**UPCOMING EVENTS FOR FACILITATORS
**COMMUNITY OUTREACH
**MATERIALS TO SUPPORT YOU AS A FACILITATOR
**STANDARDS PACKET FOR AVP/CA
**MATERIALS FOR LEAD FACILITATORS
**FIRST TIMERS
**NATIONAL AVP DISCUSSION GROUP AND NEWSLETTER

YOU are needed, if you have taken an AVP Training for Facilitators/Trainers (T4T).

SIGN UP on the AVP-CA database so you can be contacted when workshops to facilitate become available and new things are happening.

Click here to register as a California AVP facilitator .

Want to become a facilitator, Click here to be notified of upcoming workshops

KEEP IN TOUCH

Once registered you can log in to this online facilitators-only database and...

• Promote your own workshop on the AVP-California.org website by emailing details.
• Update your own listing.
• Find names and contact information of potential workshop participants.
• Add to the list by entering your students' names in the database, so they can be informed of upcoming workshops. Or just email the names to Pat to enter them.
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Click here for LATEST NEWS
Click here for minutes of Steering Committee Meetings

BIG EVENTS FOR FACILITATORS

• Annual AVP/CA Fall Gathering of Facilitators - November 15, 2008. Location being selected
• AVP/CA Education Day - November 16. Location being selected
• AVP/USA National Gathering - Memorial Day weekend, 2009, New York state

COMMUNITY OUTREACH
•Recruitment for Diversity for a Community Basic AVP workshop. A step-by-step guide to discovering your broader community for involvement in a community workshop funded by a grant from the Fund for Santa Barbara.
•Marketing a basic workshop - Notes from an AVP/USA workshop
•Sample mini-workshop agenda
•Click here for sample flyers
• Peaceful Relationships flyer: Print on 11x17 paper and fold in half. This can function as a folder for the rest of the materials you are giving.
• About AVP Workshops
• AVP/CA Updates
• Overview of AVP/CA Program

MATERIALS TO SUPPORT YOU AS A FACILITATOR

• Order AVP Manuals here.
• Articles on what it is like to "run" a workshop:
  - An AVP Facilitator’s Point of View
  - Learning Alternatives to Violence in Prison
• Subscribe to your national association quarterly newsletter, The Transformer
  

STANDARDS PACKET FOR AVP CALIFORNIA FACILITATORS
In order to maintain a consistent level of ethics statewide, at the 2005 Annual Gathering, AVP CA approved the following ethics/guidelines/standards for use by local councils. Gathered from local councils, national gathering and national materials (including manuals), it is recommended that someone from the steering committee or its representative meet with local councils annually around these issues.

Packet to be given to every new facilitator. Click on each one to see and print.
1-AVP California State Guidelines for AVP Qualification.
2-Expectations of an AVP Facilitator-from Albion CF
3-Policy on Facilitator/Participant Relationships (Approved October 5, 1995)
4-Queries on What It Means to Be a Member of an AVP Team
5-Queries on Sexuality and AVP
6-Article on "What We Wish We Had Been Told on Going Into Prisons" by Quaker Women, or "What to Expect When Going Into the Prison"
7-Facilitator/Workshop Guidance & Evaluation (revised and approved 2005)
8-Queries on Relationships

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MATERIALS FOR LEAD FACILITATORS: In order to orient new Leads and to help experienced Leads be on the same page as other California facilitators, the following materials have been developed:
ON BEING A LEAD AVP/CA facilitator
BUILDING YOUR OWN KIT Here is a revised list from the Basic Manual.

INTRODUCING A WORKSHOP TO A PRISON:
Materials for staff: The following are the basics for staff when introducing a new program.
*Peaceful Relationships
*Overview of AVP/CA
*From AVP/USA ByLaws and Policy Statement, RELATIONSHIP between the facility and AVP local group
*ESTABLISHING AN AVP PROGRAM in a CDCR prison

Materials to help with the starting of a workshop in a new prison or a new yard:
*FLYER to be handed out to inmates; modify it for your prison
*POSTER for inside prison; modify it for your prison

*Subscribe to your national association quarterly newsletter, The Transformer and send in your T4F graduates names for a free, one-year subscription

EVALUATION FORMS:
Please print out this Overall Evaluation Report (revised 2007) to fill out on every workshop. Send a copy to AVP/CA and keep one in your local council's files.
Evaluation Form for Participants
Facilitator/Workshop Guidance & Evaluation (revised and approved 2005)

Here is a sample SIGN IN Sheet for a prison workshop making it easier to track those in attendance, and to more easily submit a list of attendees with your overall Evaluation Report.

COPY FOR CERTIFICATES: Copy has been developed that you might use for your graduation certificates; note especially the reverse side which gives contact information for AVP/CA. (You will need to provide the certificates.)
Click here for: Basic, Advanced, Training for Facilitators workshop (ready to apprentice), Certificate as a Facilitator after apprenticing.

TRAINING FOR FACILITATORS GRADUATION: Consider giving out the following Facilitator's Log for keeping track of workshops facilitated.

Remember that your graduates can receive a free one-year subscription to AVP/USA's newsletter The Transformer. IF you send an electronic copy of their names and full addresses (For prisoners, their numbers need to be included.) to Alan Taplow at ataplow@jhu.edu
(Your local council might consider continuing this subscription after the first for incarcerated facilitators at $5 each.).

HANDOUTS:
*AVP/CA Transforming Power guides in English and Spanish
*6-Point Problem Solving

To receive AVP pins or wallet cards (with Transforming Power Guides on one side and AVP/CA info on the other side), contact avppat@earthlink.net

EXPENSE REIMBURSEMENTS: For those programs still functioning under AVP/CA and not established as a local council, check the AVP/CA policy for reimbursement of expenses. The form to submit for reimbursement must be approved by the Lead facilitator and receipts shall be provided for expenses.

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FIRST TIMERS: The following information is helpful when taking community people into a CDCR prison for the first time:
A few of the practicalities of going into a CDCR prison.
More practicalities of going into a CDCR prison.
For female volunteers:
What we wish we had been told when first going into prisons
For male volunteers:
What to expect when going into prison

NATIONAL AVP DISCUSSION GROUP AND NEWSLETTER

National AVP-L email list for facilitators to share questions and provide answers on facilitating AVP workshops.

AVP-L is a discussion list open to certified trainers of creative conflict resolution workshops held under the auspices of the Alternatives to Violence Project, Inc., or its approved national (U.S.) or international equivalents.

To subscribe, send an e-mail message indicating where and when you obtained your AVP facilitator certification, where you currently train, and any other pertinent information you care to include to Peter, the list owner.

The Transformer, quarterly newsletter of AVP/USA supporting and celebrating facilitators. Subscribe to your national association newsletter.

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