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Peer Trainer Program Grows
The Enlace Institute’s Peer Trainer Program, is showing a 41% increase in enrolled participants in its second two-year training series.
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2011- 2012 Training Dates
Enlace Institute Peer Training Series Schedule
Our trainings are designed for people working in organizations striving for labor and social justice.
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Peer Trainer Program On Third Year Home Stretch
2011 saw a new class of Peer Trainers in the Enlace Institute. They come from organizations serving low wage communities across the United States and Mexico. This year we welcomed more than 55 new participants. These leaders learned and applied strategic collaboration tools that substantially advanced the social justice work in their communities. The Peer Trainer Program is funded by a grant from the Ford Foundation.
In addition to the basic curriculum of the Organizing Cycle (short term planning), the Rap (used for recruiting and motivating), and the Evaluation Star (evaluation and analysis of programs and activities), we are offering an advanced framework for executive directors and graduates of the 2009-2010 Peer Trainer Program. This framework, Four Sages, is a collaborative brainstorming process that is useful specifically for top leadership teams when the group is confronting a crisis with the potential to destabilize the whole organization or is facing an unanticipated barrier to its strategy.
Peer Training Series 2011 Dates
Trainings on Organizing Cycle (Short term planning) Framework and Rap Framework
June 18-19, Mexico
August 3- 4, Portland, OR
September 13- 14, New York
Trainings on Evaluation Star (Team analysis and evaluation) Framework
October 18-19, New York
November 15-16, Portland, OR
February 9- 10, 2012, Mexico
Trainings on 4 Sages (Crisis Management Planning) Framework
October 21, New York
February 17, 2012, Los Angeles
February 11, 2012, Mexico
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For more information, please contact the LA office at 213-284-3802 or the Portland office at 503-295-6466. Or write to us at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Peer Trainer Program Grows
The Enlace Institute’s Peer Trainer Program, is showing a 41% increase in enrolled participants in its second two-year training series. Forty-one organizers and leaders from twenty-six organizations made up the first group of Peer Trainers who learned to design and facilitate strategic planning processes and team work evaluations in the Program. As of now, fifty-seven organizers and leaders from forty-three organizations have enrolled in the second group of Peer Trainers in the program, which was launched in 2009 with the support of a grant from the Ford Foundation,
The new crop of participants is currently completing the first round of workshops in Mexico City, Portland and New York.
The Enlace Institute is also offering an advanced planning workshop in 2011. There are still openings in this series, which is open to graduates of the first Peer Trainer class, Executive Directors, other management staff and board members of low-wage worker organizations and their allies. Please contact Daniel Carrillo at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) for more information.
Enlace Institute 2011
The Institute assists social, economic and environmental justice organizations that serve low-wage communities to develop effective mutually accountable teams who continually improve the work of the organizations for their constituencies. Download the Peer Training Program flyer for more information.
We are currently enrolling participants for two training programs: the Peer Trainer Program (advanced) and the Supervisor Program.
Enlace’s Peer Training Program 2009- 2010
We have now completed the second year of Enlace’s Peer Trainer Program. More than 35 leaders from organizations that serve low-wage communities who participated in our Enlace Institute Peer Trainer Program learned and applied strategic collaboration tools that substantially advanced the social justice work in their communities.
Here are a few examples:
Aquilina Soriano of Pilipino Workers Center in Los Angeles used what she learned in the Peer Trainers Program to gain access for marginalized members of her community to participate in the Green Workforce Cooperative in L.A.
Enlace Institute launches its Second Year!
In the year 2010 the Institute will teach the Organizing Cycle and Proactive Plan frameworks to peer trainers in Mexico and the US. Both frameworks help groups develop strategic plans, one for the short term, the other for up to a year. To read about them, please visit our training section. Thus far we have completed the first session of year two, teaching the Organizing Cycle to peer trainers in Bend, Oregon, New York City and Queretaro, Mexico.
The Institute is proving to have a significant impact on the work of the peer trainers and their organizations. We have been successful in our goals of helping to build low wage organizations so that they could make significant gains in their own fights.
2009 Enlace Institute Year-End Report
In 2009 Enlace realized a long-held dream. Last spring we were able to start the Enlace Institute. Its purpose is to develop strategic planning and organizational development expertise in low-income community organizations and in the movement for social and economic justice in the United States and Mexico. Among our many goals for the Enlace Institute, two are crucial: improving the economic standing and the leadership skills of low-wage workers and strengthening and stabilizing low-wage workers organizations.