VASS is pleased to provide you with an opportunity to send staff to a course that has been specifically designed to assist the further development of Personal Planning, Facilitation, and Community Participation Skills (Tuhana).

This training is FREE and available to staff in services funded by the Ministry of Social Development.

Offered in conjunction with Standards and Monitoring Services (SAMS) places are strictly limited so register now at JLIB_HTML_CLOAKING

All courses run from 9.30am - 3.30pm and lunch is provided.

Personal Planning

This training will enable you to understand the principles and practicalities associated with effective aspiration based personal planning.  It is designed to help services to:

• develop a personal planning process
• refine existing processes

Training dates and locations are:

8 February 2012 in Tauranga, 11 April 2012 in Wanganui, and 27 April 2012 in Whangarei.

Facilitation Skills

Facilitation means "making it easier".  Faciilitation is central to a way of working with people that fosters independence and interdependence.  This course is designed to explore the basic concepts and skills associated with supporting people to be active in creating a good life for themselves.

"Facilitation" is based on the principles of self determination, flexibility, enabling practice and constructive development.  The course has a focus on developing practical approaches and skills.

Training dates and locations are:

18 April 2012 in Rotorua and 18th of May 2012 in Auckland.

Tuhana

This practical course is based on research carried out by VASS and SAMS in 2009.  The research looked at what organisations were doing to develop effective practice in the area of 'Community Participation'.

This course provides an opportunity to explore the specific skills and approaches that have been identified locally and internationally as contributing to "good practice" and crucial to facilitating community participation and social inclusion.

For further information www.tuhana.org.nz

Training dates and locations are:

 17 May 2012 in Hamilton.