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Provide a Workshop
With Six Continuing Education Credits for Your Staff


The Perfect “Win-Win.” You have your staff think deeply and carefully about how they work with men, and at a very affordable price they get the Continuing Education credits they need for licensure.
Workshop Title: Helping Men Give and Get All the Love They Can

Venue: Your agency or a local facility arranged by you.

Continuing Education Credits: 6

Continuing Education Statement: Available here.

Facilitator: Working Well With Men Director Jack Kammer, MSW, MBA (brief bio)

Description: In this course we’ll utilize role-plays to travel back in time to 1972 to experience or re-experience the stereotypes and barriers facing women before the great improvements spurred by the women’s movement. Next, again with role-plays, we’ll experience the stereotypes and barriers facing men today and learn how they, too, can be challenged. Attendees will also consider the ways in which they might be colluding, even unconsciously, in using those stereotypes to justify dealing with men adversely. With a new perspective and fresh insights we’ll then brainstorm and examine ideas for improving our programs and services to help men give and get all the love they can.

The course is intended for:
  • Supervisors, managers and staff of Family Support and Child Welfare agencies who want to improve outcomes for children.
  • Social workers, social policy makers and other helping professionals who want information, ideas, examples and encouragement to implement and deliver improved programs, services and policies for men in general and fathers in particular.

Learning Objectives: After taking this course your staff will be able to:
  1. Recognize whether and how their professional practice has been influenced by seven major stereotypes about men and fathers, and discuss research and concepts that challenge those stereotypes.
  2. Articulate a new conceptual model of power between the sexes and its implications for enhancing balance, respect and fairness between women and men, and for strengthening families and communities
  3. Strategize for the design and implementation of “Responsive to Fatherhood” and other male-friendly, male-affirmative programs
  4. Critically examine the male-friendliness of your agency and participate in informed discussions about whether and how it needs to be improved.

Costs:
  • $250 Working Well With Men Workshop Fee, includes cost of handouts and other materials for attendees
  • $20 for each person requiring Documentation of Continuing Education Credit
  • Economy Class travel and ground transportation for the facilitator from the offices of Working Well With Men near Washington DC
  • One night lodging for the facilitator in economy hotel (or guest bedroom in local residence is also acceptable)
  • A suitable learning venue convenient to your staff (may be your normal office location)
  • A digital projector
  • Easel or chalkboard; markers or chalk
  • Refreshments (optional)

Four Ways to Cover the Costs:
  1. Agency allocates funds.
  2. Agency offers workshop to staff who need the six CEs and collects a fee for the CEs sufficient to cover the costs. Use this flyer or something similar to communicate the opportunity to your staff. (With this option we need to make it clear that the workshop may be cancelled without a certain minimum number of enrollments.)
  3. Same as 2, but with Working Well With Men collecting fees via credit card or PayPal.
  4. A combination of 1 and 2, with Agency allocating part of the costs and staff attendees paying part of the costs.
  5. Plus: Other possibilities we may be able to brainstorm and negotiate.