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Training by Simulation

Training by Simulation. Grandparents Raising Grandchildren University of Arizona: Coconino County Extension Beth Tucker. What is it and why do a Simulation?. Simulations are a training design to discover consequences about situations or assumptions. Description.

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Training by Simulation

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  1. Training by Simulation Grandparents Raising Grandchildren University of Arizona: Coconino County Extension Beth Tucker

  2. What is it and why do a Simulation? • Simulations are a training design to discover consequences about situations or assumptions

  3. Description • The Grandparents Raising Grandchildren simulation is a six hour workshop for service providers. Simulation models include... Doctors Without Borders, A Refugee Camp Mennonite Central Committee, In Exile Oregon Extension,Navigating the Resource Maze

  4. Simulation Goals • Agencies increase their awareness of barriers and gaps in services • Agencies learn what other agencies do to serve grandparents & grandchildren • Agencies explore system changes

  5. Why Extension hosted a Simulation? • Other senior programs have a different mission. • Extension provides education, support and advocacy for grandparents raising grandchildren since 2002

  6. Why Extension? • We had insights into grandparent issues • We had community advisory board members that represented both audiences • We had volunteers committed to change relationships with providers

  7. Design • Workshop materials were written by a team of KKONA staff and materials were reviewed by grandparents • Volunteers & grandparents were trained to facilitate workshop processing question • Workshop was held • Six month follow-up evaluation was conducted

  8. Workshop

  9. Sample Agenda

  10. Resources • Simulations take a team to host • 1 Faculty, 3 staff, 1 Americorp volunteer and 16 volunteer facilitators • No special equipment • Large space to accommodate 8 round “family” tables and 12 resource tables • Agencies willing to send informed representatives to both pre training & the entire workshop

  11. Participant Roles • Participants must shed their role and agree to engage in the experience • At the end of the workshop participants had to reassume their agency perspective to get at the changes individuals and agencies could make FOR MORE INFO... A DVD of the workshop is being produced and will accompany the CD for sale on replicating the Simulation workshop

  12. Final Processing Activity

  13. Extension’s Challenges The challenges in hosting a simulation • Communicating a simulation as a learning tool • Recruiting agency information providers • Having adequate personnel and volunteers

  14. Evaluation • 100% attendees completed a phone interview • Profile 9.6% were male and 90.3% female 55% of the respondents were agency participants; 42 % were information providers;25% were grandparents • Agencies were unaware of other and even their own agency’s procedures and resources • Collaborations have increased among grandparent service providers

  15. Developing Materials Outreach & Workshop Evaluation Oct Nov Dec July Aug Sept June July Schedule Piloting the Simulation FOR MORE INFO... For the complete guide to replicate this simulation entitled, Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: A Simulation Workshop, CD ROM 89 pp. $25, visit: www.ag.arizona.edu/pubs.

  16. Status • The Simulation workshop has been used in other communities and states

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