Rural Solutions Fatherhood Initiative
 

Rural Solutions has been awarded a grant working with the State of Colorado and the Fatherhood Initiative.  The grant is to provide programs to improve the well-being of children by building community access across Northeast Colorado fatherhood and health marriage and relationships programs and services. 

This will be accomplished in two primary objectives:

  1. Strengthen and increase the involvement and parenting skills of fathers and mothers of at risk children through community based direct services.
  2. Build system capacity and community awareness through state and community level coordination and public outreach activities.

Rural Solutions will work with community-based organizations, agencies, and groups who are willing to collaborate to deliver programs which have the following components:

  • Programs must be research-based programs with a history of success to validate the program.
  • Programs must meet the needs of the targeted audience
  • Programs must have a strong evaluation process to measure success which will also be used for grant reporting purposes.

For more information and the application please download the following: Request For Funds or contact Jackie Reynolds at 970.526.3616 or email jackie.reynolds@rural-solutions.org.

Bridges Out of Poverty Training 

Rural Solutions is providing a two day training event.  The training will be using the Bridges out of Poverty curriculum.  The goal and objective is that the trainee will come away with a better sense of understanding how people who live in poverty think and react to everyday activities.

There will be four trainings that will be held in the 2008 - 2009 year.  The schedule and information is as follows:

August 14th and 15th, 2008

8:30 am to 4:00 pm

Washington County Event Center - Akron, CO

551 W. 2nd

Akron, CO  80720

1 credit hour is available - tuition is sponsored by Rural Solutions

Registration Brochure

September 11th and 12th, 2008

Limon Community Building - Limon, CO

477 D Avenue

Limon, CO  80828

8:30 am to 4:00 pm

Registration Deadline September 2, 2008

Registration Brochure

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For more information please contact Jackie Reynolds at 970.526.3616 or email jackie.reynolds@rural-solutions.org.
QPR Gatekeeper Training
A Gatekeeper is anyone trained to recognize a suicide crisis and know how and where to find help. Training is now available in your area through the LifeSource program of Rural Solutions. QPR Gatekeeper Training was created and developed by Paul Quinnett, Ph.D., of Spokane, Washington. Dr. Quinnett began a QPR Instructor Certification Program to allow qualified candidates to teach QPR and increase the number of gatekeepers trained to act in a bold and positive manner to prevent a suicide and save a life. The founders of QPR believe that most people contemplating suicide – whether because of depression or some other significant problem – will turn to a friend, a family member, a parent, a clergyperson, or physical heath professional instead of seeking the help of a mental health professional. Therefore, anyone who is in routine contact with a distressed individual stands the best chance of intervening. That is why LifeSource encourages everyone to learn these skills. The information presented in the training is easy to understand and reinforced by a QPR booklet and card complete with warning signs, methods to encourage a person to get help and a list of resources available in your community.
To set up a Gatekeeper Training or if you have any questions, please contact Maranda Miller at 970.526.3616 or maranda.miller@rural-solutions.org., the LifeSource Program Coordinator at Rural Solutions. The training takes only about an hour to complete and is completely free.

Cultural Competency Trainings for Northeast Colorado

Rural Solutions staff went through an extensive train the trainer curriculum for cultural competency.  The Spring Insitute for Intercultural Learning in Denver, CO  created a special curriculum for Rural Solutions to bring cultural competency trainings to Northeast Colorado.  This is a two hour training that is funded through a grant from the Office of Health Disparities - Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. 

The Goals of the training are:

  • Awareness: Raise the level of consciousness of cultural issues and how they impact Northeast Coloardo and healthcare.
  • Information: Share and discuss culture and cultural generalizations that relate to Northeast Colorado and healthcare.  Culture specific information will also be provided i.e. - farmers, elderly, social economics, transportation.
  • Skills development: Develop new skills for cross-cultural comunication and interaction with individuals and families.
  • Industry specific: Learn information and skills specific to Northeast Coloardo and individual roles in community and work place.
  • Future focus: Create individual action plans for continual self-improvement related to improving each individual's response to the opportunities/learnings that can result from serving culturally diverse individuals.

Training Objectives:

Participants attending the training will be able to:

  • Demonstrate at least two specific skills, for increasing effective communication with individuals from other cultures.
  • Identify participants' own specific values which may impact how they view others from other cultures.
  • List the kinds of questions to ask and information to gather regarding a specific culture in order to prepare to serve individuals from that culture.
  • Utilize some of the key indicators of cultural style in countries used as examples in the workshop to discover cultural nuances at work in specific health related interactions. 
To set up a Cultural Competency Training or if you have any questions, please contact Maranda Miller at 970.526.3616 or maranda.miller@rural-solutions.org., the Health Disparities Program Coordinator at Rural Solutions. The training takes about two hours to complete and is completely free.

 

 

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