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Phone: 201.988.4050 ∙ Fax: 908.686.1938 ∙ Website: www.kruss-inc.com “Destiny Is Not A Matter of Chance: Building Skills in African-American Men (The Rites of Passage)” © Use this training to find workable solutions to curtail the personal, academic, and cognitive challenges that cause low program participation and activities involvement and high failure and default rates. The technology, strategies, skills, and methods shared here will enable you to prepare effective prevention, intervention, and follow-up plans well before African-American men reach the point of no return! Learn How To • Assess client strengths, areas of in need of improvement goals, objectives, and personal learning styles • Utilize cognitive assessments, inventories, and tools to assist clients in understanding their personal learning styles Content • Personality inventories, assessments, and surveys – Myers Briggs Indicator, Behavioral style inventories • Cognitive Learning Theories – Janice Hale Bensons Cognitive Difference, Curry’s Layered, Kolb’s Process ARE YOU PREPARED TO HELP? • Develop comprehensive individual development plans to to help clients develop a personal strategic plan • Identify culturally-based processes that will enable you to deliver culturally relevant programs and services • Create specific, focused, interventions that impart transferable knowledge and build real skills • Motivational Psychology and Self – Mastery Models – Howard’s Self-Efficacy, Akbar’s Butterfly Theory • Identity Theories-African-Self Consciousness, Cross’s Negressence, Hollins’ Cultural Mediation • Track and monitor interventions and outcomes to assist clients in measuring their development “Keeping it Real, to Keep it Kool, Keeping it Up to Keep it On: Why African-American Men Wear the Mask” © Use this training to break through the cultural barriers of communication that prevent effective self-disclosure, learn to deliver effective “rap sessions” that create an atmosphere of openness and trust and involve African-American males in introspection. The technology, strategies, skills, and methods shared here will enable you to develop an effective mentoring program and to spur self–disclosure through the implementation of reading and discussion groups. 4 Learn How To • Identify and create rapport building moments that will enable you to reach out to culturally different clients • Develop outreach interventions, strategies, and tactics that reach clients where they are and move them forward • Recognize sources of personal and social deficiencies and develop programs and services to alleviate pressure • Develop a multi-tiered mentoring program that will create synergy between peers and professionals • Implement a reading and discussion group that will explore engage client Content • Principles of engagement and relationship building – affect, trust, caring, expectations, and initiative • Counseling dynamics and the role of historical hostility in participation and self-disclosure • Disengagement Theories – Majors/Billsons Cool Pose, • Ogbu’s Disidentification, Steele’s Stereotype Threat • An Africentric Male Mentoring Model – Nguza Saba, Maat, and African-American Psychology/Philosophy • Utilizing literature, film, and music to below the surface issues and spur self disclosure men in introspective and meaningful discourse
Phone: 201.988.4050 ∙ Fax: 908.686.1938 ∙ Website: www.kruss-inc.com “The Kevin Russ Inc. Project: A Comprehensive Overview” (A Train-the-Trainer Workshop and Seminar) © Use this training to get an in depth and comprehensive glimpse of the technology, skills, strategies, and methods behind the work. This training offers you a look at the program and curriculum, the research, methodology, and evaluation so that you can begin thinking about how this outstanding program might be implemented on your campus. Discover how you can build and effectively monitor your own program and outcomes! Learn How To • Develop a needs assessment or feasibility study to substantiate program/project rationale • Identify, engage, recruit, and involve program participants that will enhance overall outcomes • Organize and implement a comprehensive program that creates synergy and will get the results you want and need • Design and deliver a comprehensive curriculum that will reach them and teach them transferable skills Content • Assessing the political environment and climate and identifying allies and resources • Grass roots campaigning, social marketing, public relations, advertising, and promotions • Program planning, development, design implementation, benchmarking, reporting • Lesson plan writing, curriculum alignment, curriculum delivery, outcomes measurement • Create a resource development program • Resource development and fundraising - that will build a solid, diverse, portfolio Case statements, grants, annual giving, campaigns, etc “A Raisin In the Sun: Increasing Parental Involvement to Support African-American Men” © Use this training to assist the parents of African-American men to become familiar with the nuances of affective parental involvement in order to enhance their skills as an enabling mechanism, and to provide support for clients during their journey and experience. The technology, skills, strategies, and methods shared here will help you enable parents to assist their sons in going the distance and reaching the zenith! Learn How To • Conduct family assessments and identify overall strengths and areas in need of improvement for support • Partner with families to set realistic, challenging goals, and increase communication, relationships, and problem solving • Assist families in keeping students focused on achieving goals and succeeding in the game of life • Identify potential barriers and challenges that may surface as crisis situations arise and teach them coping mechanisms. • Create and foster “rapid engagement”environments that encourage critical analysis and analytical reasoning Content • The use of social histories and cultural genograms to gauge the capacity of family support networks • Social systems theory, methods, and applications and the importance of effective triage networks • Motivational systems and how and why they work • Casual observation and intrusive parenting • Identifying risk factors associated with failure • Forging relationships by listening and observing • Intergenerational and intercultural communication strategies, technics, and methods. WE CAN HELP!! 5
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