Member Care Training

What types of training and continuing education
are available for member care?

Here are a few examples.

We need a mechanism within the member care field to both track and communicate the various training opportunities.

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Member care conferences (workshops at regional member care consultations)
Mental Health and Missions, Indiana USA, November; http://www.mti.org/
Pastors to Mission, North Carolina, USA, December; http://www.barnabaas.org/
Personnel Conference, Virginia, USA, December; www.ifmamissions/personnel
Periodic Regional Consultations, such as in Europe and the Middle East

General mission conferences (workshops related to member care)

Member care-related conferences (secular)
Society for Human Resource Management. http://www.shrm.org/
Families in Global Transition; http://www.figt.org/
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies; http://www.istss.org/
Antares; http://www.antaresfoundation.org/

One to four week general courses (within an organisation or open to those from many organisations)
YWAM South Asia, systematic/modular/ongoing training (in-house)
YWAM general (a few different courses, one week to four weeks)
Face to Face course by Operation Mobilisation (two weeks; October 2007 in RSA)
Link Care; http://www.linkcare.org/ (California, next course January 2008)
Heartstream; http://www.heartstreamresources.org/ (Pennsylvania, USA)

Specialised courses/meetings/workshops (interpersonal skills, leadership development, coaching, peer debriefing, crisis management)
Mobile Member Care team; http://www.mmct.org/
Sharpening Your Interpersonal Skills; http://www.itpartners.org/
People in Aid; http://www.peopleinaid.org/

Academic and degree courses in member care
Columbia International University, USA; www.ciu.edu/faculty/bio.php?id=57

On-line modules
Headington Institute; http://www.headiington-institute.org/

Correspondence courses

Academic courses and degrees in related fields

Self-directed reading and research (informal, as needed)

Informal and formal mentoring/supervision/peer consultation

Continuing education requirements for professionals (e.g., courses/materials on substance abuse, marital mediation, vaccinations)

Other things to think about:

1. Share more training opportunities, in addition to the above

2. Share ideas about a "global mechanism" for further tracking and communicating about opportunities for member care training

3. Future directions for training?