The weekend of Alea's fashion show I left for Little Rock on Thursday afternoon for the PRIDE training of trainers for The CALL. We started at 5 pm on Thursday evening and worked until 8. Friday we worked form 8 am until 6:30 and then we had to do homework for the next day. Saturday we worked from 8 am until 4:30. We did not get official breaks at all. Learning about child abuse for three days without breaks was rough! They fed us every meal so they would send us to the back of the room to make our plates and when everyone had taken about 2 bites they would start teaching again. It was a LONG weekend. My partner, Jennifer, had been through the PRIDE training already like I had. Actually, Jennifer and I attended the same training in July so we already knew each other somewhat. Anyway, we had already seen all of the videos and heard everything so we both did really well and didn't cry. The other ladies at the training were hearing it all for the first time so it was a lot harder for them. We were learning how to teach the material but we also had to go through it as learners of the material at the same time. The girls in the class were all great. I just needed breaks.
We have to observe another round of PRIDE training before we can become trainers. I am currently set up to observe the November training. I am actually going to co-teach one session. There are 8 sessions with the 9th session being a panel of current and former foster and adoptive families. The 10th session is a info session presented by DCFS. I am glad I am going to get to co-teach at least one session. That will help break the weekends up.
The hotel we stayed at was also where the training was so that was nice. The hotel was new and very nice. They had a Starbucks right outside of our meeting room. Some of the other girls were just about double fisting it with the coffee. On the last day I broke down and bought some hot cocoa (the room we were in was COLD). This is a picture I took during the training.
The CALL is founded on the principals of James 1:27...
"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after widows and orphans in their distress..."
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