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2013 Circle of Parents Awards |
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2013 Circle of Parents Awards
Your Circle of Parents® chapter volunteers are dedicated, passionate, and deserve recognition. These annual awards are the perfect opportunity to help show your appreciation! Please review our five outstanding service categories described below and submit your nominations! We encourage you to submit a nomination for each category. Click HERE for a nomination form.
The PCAMN Parent Leadership Team and Prevention Initiative staff will review all nominations and select recipients who most exemplify the principles of mutual self-help, family support, and shared leadership.
Please review our five categories described below and submit nominates in one or more categories:
Outstanding Parent Leader: This award honors a parent who has made significant contributions. These contributions could include, working in partnership with staff and families, co-facilitating a group, becoming an active participate in decision-making on their chapter advisory council or their county Child Abuse Prevention Council, as well as making coffee and welcoming others to become comfortable with Circle of Parents® mutual-self help group. This individual may be an active or former participant of your group.
Outstanding Parent Group Facilitator: This award honors the parent group facilitator who has made significant contributions to their group and chapter. These contributions could include, strong commitment to family support, a variety of knowledge on parenting techniques, good listener and non-judgmental. This individual must be an active facilitator.
Outstanding Children's Program Leader:This award honors the Children's Program Leader who has made significant contributions to their group and chapter. These contributions could be a love for children, knowledge of children’s group management and family dynamics, patient and non-judgmental. This individual must be an active leader.
Outstanding Chapter: This award honors the chapter that embodies the principles of mutual self-help, family support, and shared leadership. These principles are demonstrated by recognizing the significant contribution of volunteers and partners in the community. The chapter embraces shared leadership and the diversity of voices at the table. This chapter must be active.
Outstanding Chapter Volunteer: This award honors the volunteer who has made significant contributions to their chapter advisory team, agency partner, or the PCAMN organization. Their contribution comes from the heart, inspires others and brings their chapter to places they had never imagined they could go. This individual may be an active or former participant of your chapter.
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The deadline to submit nominations is March 15, 2013. Each Circle of Parents® chapter is encouraged to submit more than one nomination. Representatives from the Parent Leadership Team will review all nominations and make the final decision Thank you in advance for your input – Circle of Parents® would not be effective without you!
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Advisory Team Job Description |
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Click here for a Advisory Team Member Job Description
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What are Circle of Parents Groups? |
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The heart of our organization is a network of parent and children's support groups called Circle of Parents that meet weekly across the state. These community and agency partners are known as Chapters. All groups operate on a shared leadership model with parent participants, and provide non-judgmental support to parents as well as organized programming for children. Select this pink link for the current list of Minnesota Circle of Parents Groups. The parent support groups help parents to improve their parenting skills and strengthen their family relationships. During weekly meetings, parents share the challenges and successes of child rearing. Group meetings provide opportunities for parents to exchange ideas, meet other parents, and talk about their feelings in safe and supportive surroundings. To learn more about Circle of Parents, please call Prevent Child Abuse Minnesota at (651) 523-0099 or (800) 244-5373. You may also email us at pcamn@pcamn.org.
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2012 Circle of Parents Awards |
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2012 Circle of Parents Award Recipients
Outstanding Facilitator:
Lori Clasemann – Renville Chapter
Outstanding Children’s Program Volunteer:
Carlos Kramer Jr. – Albert Lea Chapter
Outstanding Chapter:
Brainerd Chapter
Outstanding Parent Leader:
Karen Helton – Becker Co Chapter (formerly known as Shawstad)
Gerry O’Konski Award (Outstanding Volunteer):
Tasha Moulton – Mankato Chapter
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How to Start Parent and Children's Groups |
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All groups begin with a personal visit from a coordinator near you. Your coordinator will help you develop your chapter and provide training and technical assistance before you form your group. The following trainings are offered for new chapters:
We have developed a one-day training for the mutual self-help Circle of Parents Facilitators and Parent Group Leaders. This training builds on the strengths of the past by providing greater opportunity to practice skills, increase knowledge of how groups work and become even more grounded in the values of mutual help, shared leadership and family support. The training will combine experiential activities, discussion, presentations, and stories.
The Children's Program training is for new children's program leaders and assistants. The children’s program training includes:
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Roles and responsibilities of volunteers
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Mandated reporting
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Children's resiliency
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Positive approaches to children
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Establishing activity structure and routines
To learn more about Circle of Parents, please call Barb Sorum at (507) 383-8842. You may also email Barb at bsorum@pcamn.org.
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Circle of ParentsŪ Regional Offices |
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A map of our Regional Offices is at this link.
Our Regional Coordinators
Statewide Office of Prevent Child Abuse Minnesota
Home of Circle of Parents®
Alice O. Lynch, Metro Coordinator of Prevention Initiatives
709 University Avenue, Suite 234
Saint Paul, MN 55104
Central Minnesota Regional Office
Roxy Foster, Director of Statewide Prevention Initiatives
9310 Eider Lane
Monticello, MN 55362
651-442-8914
rfoster@pcamn.org
Northeast Minnesota Regional Office
Joan Johnson, Northeast Coordinator of Prevention Initiatives
9057 Sunset Strip
Pequot Lakes, MN 56472
218-821-6429 office
Southeast Minnesota Regional Office
Barb Sorum, Director of Program Data and Evaluation
606 East 5th Street
Albert Lea, MN 56007
507-383-8842 office
Northwest Minnesota Regional Office
Mary Weaver, Northwest Coordinator of Prevention Initiatives
32662 Birchwood Shore Drive
Underwood, MN 56586-9215
218-770-1385 office
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Circle of Parents Training |
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CIRCLE OF PARENTS® FACILITATION SKILLS
By using a combination of hands-on activities, presentation, discussion, and stories, this training will give you the basic skills to begin facilitating mutual self-help Circle of Parents® groups with confidence. This training is perfect for new facilitators and as a refresher course for current facilitators.
CIRCLE OF PARENTS® CHILDREN’S PROGRAM
This training is designed to help you build confidence and skills to understand and manage children’s behaviors. Special attention will be paid to family and protective factors, roles and responsibilities, and mandated reporting issues.
For more information on training, please contact Priscilla N. Mitchell at pmitchell@pcamn.org.
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Facilitator's Manual for Training |
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Follow this link to the National and Minnesota Circle of Parents Facilitator's Manual. This includes an appendix with forms and instructions for group facilitators. Follow this link to the 2011 Minnesota Child Maltreatment Screening Guidelines, an important document to keep on hand.
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Mary K. Hanson Video |
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New Mankato Group in the News |
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We started a new Circle of Parents group in Mankato this September, and one of our facilitators was recently interviewed for a local TV station. Follow this link to read the article. For more information about the new Mankato group, please call Barb Sorum at (507) 383-8842 or email bsorum@pcamn.org.
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Stats Online Website |
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The following link is for Circle of Parents® members who are logging in to enter stats about their mutual self-help parent support groups: http://circlemnstats.org
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Parent Leadership Team |
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We develop parent leaders in our parenting groups with the goal of fostering leadership skills that transfer to their Chapters and communities. This effort extends to the governance of our organization in which our Parent Leadership Team serves alongside our Board of Directors. The Parent Leadership Team provides valuable guidance from the perspective of active or past parent program participants. Follow this link to our parent leadership webpage.
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Newsletters and Publications for Groups |
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Newsletters (follow the pink link)
Follow this link to PCAMN's free publications, including eNews, brochures, bookmarks, and community resource packets.
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Circle of ParentsŪ National Web Site |
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Circle of Parents® is the National Network of Mutual Support and Self-Help Programs in Partnership with Communities, a collaborative project of Prevent Child Abuse America and the National Family Support Roundtable. This link will guide you to more information about Circle of Parents®, its history and mission as well as parent resources and publications.
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2006 Circle Group Participant Survey Results |
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Click on the pink link for a summary of our 2006 Participant Survey: Executive Summary
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709 University Avenue, Suite 234, Saint Paul, MN 55104
(651) 523-0099 phone (651) 523-0380 fax (800) 621-6322 toll free Email: pcamn@pcamn.org
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