Tools/Training for Member Care

 

 

The materials in this section are organized into two broad categories:

Tools and Training.

 

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Tools

This is a set of eight tools to support you in your member care work.

The areas addressed are: Selection Criteria, CHOPS Adjustment Inventory, Thirteen Survival Premises/Promises, Personal Growth Plan, Core Issues for Personal Growth, Team Feedback Form, Crisis and Contingency Management, Reentry Preparation.

http://sites.google.com/site/membercaravan/tools

 

Several self-assessment and personal growth tools are available for free on-line at:

http://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu

 

Offers three self-assessment tools on self care, stress, and burnout.

http://headington-institute.org/Default.aspx?tabid=1379

 

(seven languages, explores struggles, successes and strategies of adjustment for cross-cultural workers)

http://mcaresources.googlepages.com/giants%2Cfoxes%2Cwolves%2Candflies

 

A booklet with a helpful assessment tool on stress for humanitarian aid workers and others working cross-culturally.

Developed by the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

http://www.ifrc.org/cgi/pdf_pubshealth.pl?stress.pdf

 

One of the main assessment tools to get a quick overview of health and areas of concern.

The link is to the short version of the questionnaire (12 items).

http://www.uow.otago.ac.nz/academic/gp/mentalhealth/GHQ20and20scoring.pdf

 

A comprehensive and free grid to help organisations assess their HR capacity and plan for HR improvements. From Management Sciences for Health (also in Spanish and French).

http://erc.msh.org/newpages/english/toolkit/hrd.pdf

 

 

Training

Use these materials as part of a self-study program for yourself or as a group.

Many more online courses, webinars, and podcasts for member care still need to be developed. There are other helpful training opportunities that are not mentioned below (the MC field still needs comprehensive, updated, and archived listings of such opportunities). For some additional thoughts see the entries on Training (June-July 2007) on  the weblog CORE Member Care.

 

Currently offers eight self-study modules online.

Topics include the areas of stress management, trauma care, supporting national staff, families, and re-entry.

http://headington-institute.org/Default.aspx?tabid=2258

 

Offers doctoral and masters level training and a Professional Certificate program in member care. For more information contact:  Dr. Roni Pruitt   Rpruitt@ciu.edu

www.ciu.edu/seminary/degrees/dm-membercare

 

**Heartstream Resources: Foundations and Implementing Member Care; twice a year for two weeks in Pennsylvania, USA

 

**Operation Mobilization: Face to Face course on leadership/personal growth, in different locations; gill.trainor@ict.om.org  

 

**Link Care:  Building Skills for Member Care Excellence, training in California in January, one week 

 

**Narramore Foundation: Counseling and Member Care Seminar, primarily in Thailand, two weeks

 

This is an updated course syllabus (2005) that overviews 10 areas of member care.

The course was taught initially at Fuller School of Psychology USA in the 1990s by Kelly O’Donnell. Available at the Member Caravan web site (training section).

http://sites.google.com/site/membercaravan/training-for-mc

 

This material is based on a week-long consultation/seminar covering four essential topics in member care.  Available at the Member Caravan web site (training section).

•Introduction: Syllabus for Member Care Consultation/Workshop

•1. Member Care Overview

•2. Staying Healthy

•3. Team Development

•4. Crisis/Contingency Management

http://sites.google.com/site/membercaravan/training-for-mc

 

These three lectures can help you further develop your understanding/skills in member care.

The lectures and panel responses were given at Fuller School of Psychology, USA, February 2009.

The topics: historical milestones/future directions, health/dysfunction, and ethics human rights.

These materials are available for free in written, audio and video format.

http://www.fuller.edu/academics/school-of-psychology/integration-symposium-2009.aspx

 

Power point by Kelly and Michèle O’Donnell, narrated.

They share about their work in member care and issues/opportunities for working in international member care/human health.

For individual self-study and group settings.

http://www.slideshare.net/MCAresources/god-in-the-global-office

 

Located on the Member Caravan web site in the training section.

•1, Training and Using Member Care Workers. Richard and Laura Mae Gardner, Missionary Care (1992) pp. 315-331.

•2. What Mission CEOs Want from Mental Health Professionals. Paul McKaughan, Enhancing Missionary Vitality (2002) pp. 201-206.

•3. Research in Mental Health and Missions. William Hunter, Enhancing Missionary Vitality (2002). pp. 475-484.

http://sites.google.com/site/membercaravan/training-for-mc

 

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