November 1, 2016
October 2016 Administrative Staff Report- Program Development & Training Officer
Major projects completed –
Set Technical Assistance calendar for the coming year with AmeriCorps program staff and developed the data quality pre-test. Data Quality is the training focus for 2016-17
Began work with the AmeriCorps Opiate priority contractors and established their timeline and contract deliverables
Set up and began the fall CMV course (scheduled from 10-31 to 12-16) with 14 participants
Switched from facilitating PIE and Grants to E&E. Continued to participate in Service Enterprise national network calls and the Intro to SE workgroup
Trained the National Service Programs on new Maine fingerprinting process and facilitated the approval of programs by SBI
Trained new program staff at Goodwill and provided re-training to RSU 13 staff and met with new LearningWorks CEO.
Developed and presented Budget Development Course at Blaine House and shared with New Hampshire Commission at their request
Issues to be aware of – based on work with grantees, CNCS, or community groups, call the Commissioners’ attention to issues that impact MCCS activities. These can be emerging issues, concerns that task forces should explore, or resources/news they can use in their deliberations.
Limited follow through with Service Enterprise cohort. Only two of the seven organizations that attended the orientation made the commitment to move forward and these both needed to adjust the schedule of trainings due to significant organizational activities. This has pushed the training into 2017
Collected feedback on AmeriCorps Launch and Blaine House from AC programs to share with taskforces
Major focus of effort in the new month –
Find a trainer for National Service Branding training with AmeriCorps and Senior Corps staff and scheduling the meetings for winter and spring
AmeriCorps Opiate initiative – continue to build stakeholder group and organize scoping meetings for December and January
Get training for:
- Using the Galaxy platform for implementing the Disaster response functions of VolunteerMaine
- Using the LEAN process for AmeriCorps program development
- Using Captivate in order to develop the next level CMV course and the AmeriCorps 101 self-study course
Proctor CMV fall course
Finalize Service Enterprise Training schedule and start trainings