Sponsorships to AMREF Courses Available
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AMREF is going to conduct the following short courses in the
month of August 2005:
TRAINING OF FACILITATORS (1st - 26th August 2005) Cost: US$ 960
Course Contents
Module One
* Team Building
* Problem & Job analysis
* Concepts of Health, Development & Dependency
* Community Participation and Partnerships
* Leadership for Community Based Health Development
* Primary Health Care & Community Based Health Care
* Community analysis & entry process
Module Two
* Roles and Training needs of different types of Health
Workers
* Introduction to adult learning approach
* Skills for effective facilitation & participatory learning
* Steps in lesson presentation
* Steps in designing a training curriculum
* Organizing a Training event or Workshop
* Trainers Notes for Phase 2
Module Three
* Introduction to Program Planning
* The LOG frame as a tool for planning
* Monitoring and Evaluation
* Trainers Notes for Phase 3
Module Four
* Institutional Development and Management
* Collaboration and Networking
* Proposal writing and marketing
* Resolving and managing conflict
* Change Management
* Trainers Notes for Phase 4
Life Skills Planning Course (8th - 19th August 2005) 2 Weeks:
Cost US$ 480
OBJECTIVES
* Build capacity of trainers to train other trainers on life
skills and how to deal with their own value conflicts before
they can assist youth to do so;
* Provide adolescents in Africa with an opportunity to learn
more about themselves, their interests, strengths, family and
personal values and the factors that influence their feelings
about themselves;
* Assist youth in Africa to establish goals and make decisions
related to future work and parenthood and to encourage them to
achieve their goals;
* Increase adolescents' knowledge in three areas: sexuality,
planning for a family and communication.
Units covered
* Personal, family and community values
* Adolescent development
* Sexuality
* Gender roles and equality
* Relationships
* Preventing pregnancy
* STIs/HIV/AIDS
* Harmful traditional practices
* Substance use and Abuse
* Planning for the future
* Parenting
* Counselling
Guidance and Counselling Course (22nd August - 2nd September
2005) 2 Weeks Cost US$ 480
This course is designed to provide opportunities for the par-
ticipants to develop critical and informed understanding of
guidance and counselling issues and practice.
COURSE OBJECTIVE
The course is aimed at:
* Enabling participants to identify the role of guidance and
counselling in the helping profession
* Equipping the participants with knowledge, basic counselling
skills and attitudes necessary to facilitate counselling inter-
vention in a variety of settings
* Developing strategies for implementing or improving guidance
and counselling interventions in their workplaces
TARGET GROUP
The course is designed for middle level personnel in public,
private sectors, Non-Governmental Organisations and other agen-
cies. It is put together for health related personnel including
nurses, community health workers, doctors, and clinical offi-
cers. It is also very useful for teachers both in schools and
colleges, church leaders, human resources personnel in organisa-
tions and social development workers.
COURSE DURATION
The course is designed to take two weeks.
CONTENT
The following units will be covered:
1. Guidance and counselling concepts
2. Introduction to counselling psychology
3. Counsellor and the process of counselling
4. Basic counselling skills
5. Crisis intervention and trauma
CERTIFICATION
The participants to each of the courses will be awarded an AMREF
certificate of participation stipulating the topics covered.
Being our very close collaborators we are extending 5 sponsor-
ships in each of the above stated courses. The sponsorship en-
tails the tuition fees as indicated on each. During the course
AMREF will provide course participants with lunch, tea and all
learning materials and stationery. You are free to nominate par-
ticipants who will be selected on the basis of appropriateness
of the course to your organisation and the individual's capac-
ity. Please note all nominations must come from the organiza-
tions individual applications are not acceptable. Also note that
we cannot give more than one sponsorship to an organisation.
Deadline for receiving all nominations is Friday 22nd July 2005.
For more details on other courses offered by AMREF please visit
our website: http://www.amref.org/
Thank you.
Joyce K. Mwaura
Administrator, Training
Directorate of Learning Systems
AMREFHQ
P O Box 00506 27691
Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: +254-20-605-220 ext 224
Fax: +254-20-609-518
mailto:joycek@amrefhq.org
The mission of the AMREF Directorate of Learning Systems is "to
strengthen the capacity of health and health related profes-
sional so that they can effectively address the challenges of
health in Africa"