NAPPP Upcoming Training Institutes

NAPPP SUMMER INSTITUTE  NAPPP Training Institute I Establishing a Peer Helping Program When: August 28 & 29, 2020 Time:  8:30 am to 4:30 pm Location:TBA

Facilitators: 

Dr. Boone Benton, CPPE, NAPPP BOD

Dr. Cynthia Morton, CPPE, NAPPP Trainer/Consultant, NAPPP BOD, NBCC

 
This interactive Training Institute is for anyone who is interested in learning more about peer helping programs. Peer helping programs, found primarily but not only in school settings, train non-professionals (typically students) to provide a variety of supportive services to other peers. These services can include (but are not limited to) one-on-one

listening, tutoring, character education lessons, health education, leading small group discussions, working with classroom groups, conflict resolution, peer mediation, drug and alcohol prevention, assisting new students, mentoring disabled and non-English-speaking students, service learning, community outreach and leadership training.  Participants should bring a computer so they can access materials for the Training Institute through a thumb drive. 

This Training Institute will cover the historical perspective of the peer helping movement worldwide,

research regarding the effectiveness of peer helping programs, program start-up, and implementation and maintenance. Participants will also experience modules for training peer helpers. A Plan of Action will be developed. Upon successful completion of this Training Institute, participants will have met the training requirement component toward CPPE (Certified Peer Program Educator) certification through the National Association of Peer Program Professionals.

Participants will receive a certificate of attendance, a complimentary one-year membership in the National Associations of Peer Program Professionals, eligible to apply for Certified Peer Program Educator and if have a program can apply for the Certified Peer Program.  Optional Graduate credit available through Lindenwood University.  

NAPPP Training Institute II

Peer Mediation Program K-12:  Designing, Implementation, Training for Peer Mediators in Your School

Date:  August 14 & 15, 2020

Time:  8:30-4:30

Place: TBA

Facilitators: 

Dr. Cynthia Morton, NAPPP CPPE, Certified Trainer/Consultant, NAPPP BOD,

Dr. Boone Benton, CPPE, NAPPP BOD

Participants in this interactive Training Institute will acquire tools and practice skills to train peer mediators and build and sustain flexible vibrant peer programs, specifically peer mediation programs.  Time will be spent on designing a program that will work within your school, how to implement the program and train youth using one curriculum.  Time will be spent learning about online peer mediation training.  Participants will explore nine essential areas of training: helping roles, confidentiality and referrals, communication skills, decision-making, teambuilding, ethics, group management, group process, and organizational dynamics.  Specifically, professionals will learn how to teach the process of peer mediation. Each participant will learn a variety of techniques that will make any training they lead for youth more fun while enhancing learning.  NAPPP Programmatic Standards and Ethics will provide the foundation for all skills and strategies.  Bring your ideas and creativity.

·         Core Training for Students

·         Peer Mediation Process

• Teaching and Learning Strategies 
• Supervision Skills 
• Evaluation of Student Learning 
• Continued Planning and Implementation  

This training will focus specifically on how to train youth in peer mediation skills. Opportunities to practice leadership skills with feedback will be provided.  Time will be spent on evaluation of student learning.  Participants should bring a computer so they can access materials for the Training Institute through a thumb drive. 

Participants will be eligible to earn the Certified Peer Program Educator (CPPE) credential.  The CPPE certificate can be received after completion of an application form and paying a $35.00 credentialing fee at the end of training, or by sending the application and fee to NAPPP.  Yearly membership is $50/year and CPPE renewal is $20/year.

These trainings are tailored for teachers, non-profit youth workers, juvenile justice/prison staff, juvenile/school counselors, social workers, drug prevention specialists and Church youth workers.

NAPPP Fall Training Institute

Establishing a Peer Helping Program: Team Training
When: November 29 & 30, 2020
Time:  8:30 am to 4:30 pm

Location: St. Louis Area

Facilitators: 

Dr. Marilyn Bader, CPPE, NAPPP Trainer/Consultant

Cindy Wynn, CPPE, NAPPP Trainer/Consultant, LPC

Dr. Judy Tindall, CPPE, NAPPP Trainer/Consultant, Clinical

Psychologist

This interactive Training Institute is for anyone who is interested in

learning more about peer helping programs. Peer helping programs,

found primarily but not only in school settings, train non-professionals (typically students) to provide a variety of supportive services to other

peers. These services can include (but are not limited to) one-on-one

listening, tutoring, character education lessons, health education, leading

small group discussions, working with classroom groups, conflict

resolution, peer mediation, drug and alcohol prevention, assisting new

students, mentoring disabled and non-English-speaking students, service learning, community outreach and leadership training.  Participants

should bring a computer so they can access materials for the Training Institute through a thumb drive. 

This Training Institute will cover the historical perspective of the peer

helping movement worldwide, research regarding the effectiveness of

peer helping programs, program start-up, and implementation and

maintenance. Participants will also experience modules for training peer helpers. A Plan of Action will be developed. Upon successful completion

of this Training Institute, participants will have met the training

requirement component toward CPPE (Certified Peer Program Educator) certification through the National Association of Peer Program

Professionals.

Participants will receive a certificate of attendance, a complimentary

one-year membership in the National Associations of Peer Program Professionals, eligible to apply for Certified Peer Program Educator

and if have a program in place (minimum one year) eligible to apply

for Certified Peer Program.  Optional  Graduate credit available through Lindenwood University.  

Please make check payable to NAPPP

58 Portwest Court

St. Charles, MO  63303

Toll-free phone/Fax: 888-691-1088

FACILITATORS:

Dr. Marilyn Bader, CPPE, NAPPP Trainer/Consultant

Marilyn as the Prevention Training Coordinator for the National

Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse – St. Louis Area (NCADA). 

In this position, she coordinated and trained a wide variety of

programming for youth, adults, community members, and school staff. 

This includes such topics as:  Resilience skill development, student

assistance programming and implementation, support group facilitation,

group dynamics, community development and mobilization, cross-age education, peer helping and mentoring, conflict mediation for grades

6 through adult, action planning, and a broad range of topics related to

the addiction disease and systemic impact.

Marilyn’s experience ranges from direct student service programming at

the local level to working with community teams throughout the eastern

region of Missouri.  She has done extensive training in Missouri as well

as other training programs at the national level.

Marilyn has served in a variety of leadership capacities in the prevention

field and beyond.  She has served as Chair of the Congregations Services Steering Committee and the Board for Youth Services for the Lutheran

Church-Missouri Synod.

Dr. Judith A. Tindall, Clinical Psychologist, CPPE, NAPPP

Trainer/Consultant

As president, staff psychologist, and consultant at Psychological Network in

St. Charles, MO, Dr. Tindall provides counseling, evaluation, consulting, develops

curriculum, consultation, designs programs, trains youth and adults, develops

evaluation design and evaluates programs. Her services encompass a full array of

psychological services. She is an MBTI® Master Practitioner, HIMS Trained

Aviation Evaluator, and Registered Custody Evaluator.  She has been in private

practice since the late 1970s. 

She has written the following books: Evaluation of Peer and Prevention Peer

Program: A Blueprint for Success; An In-Depth Look at Peer Programs,

Second Edition; Peer Power, Book 1:  Becoming an Effective Peer Helper and

Conflict Mediator, Fourth Edition; Peer Power, Book 2: Applying Peer Helping

Skills, Third Edition; Peers Helping Peers: Program for the Preadolescent and

Leader’s Manual; 3R’s of Feeling:  Receiving, Reflecting, and Responding.  She

has written articles that appeared in the St. Louis Business Journal, St. Charles Business Magazine, and Mediate.com. She has conducted two webinars on Peer

to Peer Strategies for Bullying Prevention/Intervention and Peer to Peer Strategies

for Suicide Prevention.   She has appeared on radio and television including Good

Morning America. She was an invited participant to the White House Conference

on working with Youth and was invited to participate in the Bullying Summit in

Washington, D.C., supported by nine federal agencies.  She has also attended the

Global Youth Traffic Safety Launch.

She spends part of her time providing direct service through counseling,

evaluation, and forensic evaluation to individuals and families in the St. Charles Community.  She has assisted  organizations on a wide variety of topics

including peer to peer programs, crisis management,  team building, conflict management, highway traffic safety, strategic planning, community building, leadership development, communication skills, stress management, violence prevention, bullying prevention, sexual harassment, diversity, Wellness in the Workplace and MBTI®.  She has conducted evaluation for individuals and organizations.

She assisted the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)

in evaluating three projects, the Future Farmers of America (FFA) in creating a

national evaluation model and needs assessment for their programs, and NAPPP Programmatic Standards Rubric.  She has helped to develop the Zero Tolerance

for Underage Drinking and Driving, seat belt use, distracted driving curriculum

for NAPPP which has been delivered to the City of St. Charles School District

and KCMOSD. She has assisted KCMOSD deliver two “Youth Saving Youth” projects regarding underage drinking and driving lessons to youth.  She has led

her group in providing mental health services to St. Louis Job Corps for over 15

years where she worked with the Peer Mentor/Mediation program. She has

worked with the United Nations on developing, implementing, and evaluating a

Staff Outreach Support (SOS) program and other crisis training and website

materials. She assisted South Korea in expanding and enhancing their 5,000

peer counseling programs.  She has conducted program evaluation on a variety

of  training programs for youth for several school districts such as Cecil County

MD, Baldwin County AL, and Broward County FL, in enhancing their peer

counseling programs.

Dr. Tindall received her B.S. from Southwest Missouri State University in

speech and political science. Her Master’s degree is in counseling and guidance

from the University of Missouri. She has a specialist degree in counseling and guidance from Southern Illinois University, and her Ph.D. from St. Louis

University. She holds certificates from the National Board of Certified

Counselors and the National Certified School Psychologist Board.  She has her

lifetime teaching and counseling certificate and counseling from the Missouri

Board of Education. She was a school counselor and teacher for 17 years. 

Cindy Wynn, LPC, CPPE, NAPPP Trainer/Consultant

Cindy Wynn is licensed as a Professional Counselor in MO.  She taught

the graduate counselor program at Lindenwood University and has

facilitated Level 1 NAPPP training in the St. Charles, MO area.

She retired from the City of St. Charles School District in 2003 after 31

years as a teacher, middle and high school counselor and the district-wide

Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities Grant Coordinator. 

Cindy has been involved in peer helping since the first National Peer

Helpers Association conference was held in St. Charles, MO in 1987. 

She developed the first peer helping program at the middle school level

and co-taught the class until she moved to the high school where she

helped with the high school program.  As the Drug Free Grant

coordinator, she oversaw the development of the district wide peer

helping program.

Cindy was a board member for NAPPP for eight years as Secretary,

President of the MO Peer Helpers Association, co-editor of the

MPHA newsletter and served on the NAPPP Professional

Development Committee.  She has worked with the peer helper

sponsors in  a local school district to write a district-wide peer helping curriculum based on NAPPP Programmatic Standards and Ethics.