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Grounding Training Programs in Informing Frameworks
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The approaches in the chart below can provide frameworks that make your organization most effective when training adults and/or children/youth. Grounding the development of your training program in one or more of these frameworks will provide better results for the participants trained.
Informing Frameworks
- Positive Youth Development Models: (http://educationnorthwest.org/sites/default/files/resources/factsheet13.pdf)
- Strengthening Families Framework: (http://www.cssp.org/reform/strengtheningfamilies)
- Nine Principles of Prevention Programs: (http://www.azrapeprevention.org/sites/default/files/cdc_nine_principles_0.pdf)
- Application of Adult Learning Theory:(https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/nrcs143_024001.pdf)
- Adult Learning Theory model descriptions: https://granite.pressbooks.pub/teachingandlearninginadulthood/chapter/traditional-adult-learning-theory-and-models/
- Adult Learning Theories: (https://lincs.ed.gov/sites/default/files/11_%20TEAL_Adult_Learning_Theory.pdf)
- Study looking at the effectiveness of adult learning models: (https://www.buildinitiative.org/portals/0/uploads/documents/resource-center/diversity-and-equity-toolkit/adultlearning_rev7-04-09.pdf)
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