Date
Friday June 16, 2017
Time
Registration begins at 12:00 PM.
Training is 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM PST
Location
Tomales Bay Youth Center
11550 Shoreline Hwy (State Route 1)
Point Reyes Station, CA 94956
6 hours Continued Education Credit available. Continuing Education Hours are offered by CARS for $25. They must be paid in advance using the Online Registration. No payment accepted onsite.
CARS is an approved provider for: Ca Assn of MFT# 131736 CAADAC#4N-08-923-0718
CA Board of Registered Nursing CEP# 16303
Contact
Lynn Esposti, CPI Team
Center for Applied Research Solutions (CARS)
707-568-3800
lesposti@cars-rp.org
Event Host
West Marin Health Kids Madeline Nieto Hope
hopexing@att.net
(415) 663-8418
CPI Prevention Extension
Youth in Focus: Conducting Youth-Led Focus Groups
Marin County
June 16, 2017
Facilitated by: Angela Da Re
Workshop Description
Focus groups are an excellent way to gather non-scripted information from community memebers and to engage young people in a meningful way. They can be a particularly useful strategy for understanding the "why" behind common norms, attitudes, and perceptions. This workshop is appropriate for youth who will be engaging in focus group efforts and their adult allies. Participants learn how to develop focus group questions, to use interviewing and facilitation techniques, and to summarize and utilize the date collected. Conducting focus groups is a workshop overview of how you can deepen your understanding of your CHKS data in order to improve school climate, student engagement and parent engagement. The workshop will also help you devise action plans from the information you receive in focus groups.
Participants can expect to:
- Learn strategies for forming focus groups of students and focus groups of parents;
- Learn how to develop questions for focus groups, interviewing and facilitation techniques;
- Learn how to structure and conduct an interactive focus group session;
- Improve skills in explaining, evaluating and utilizing the information that comes from focus groups.
Target Audience
LCAP Coordinators, CHKS Coordinators, Principals and Administrators who want to increase student engagement.
Please be aware that by attending this training, you consent to be photographed as part of a group, and that those images may be used on our website and online social media for non-commercial use.