Education & Training
A pool of clinical psychologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, physicians, counsilors, social workers, legal experts and volunteers with various expertyise is engaged in the program. The major activities under the program include:
- Identifying and assessing training and educational needs of the targeted people.
- Developing training manuals/curricula offering training as per yearly training calendars and upon request.
- Offering and holding training courses on request.
- Publication on HIV/AIDS, Drug Dependence and Mental Health issues covering articles to break stigma and misconceptions attached to HIV/AIDS, Drug Abuse and Mental Illness.
- Developing and executing awareness-raising projects to achieve clear understanding form their own standpoint on issues relating to drug abuse and associated HIV risks and continue with the awareness activities through community involvement.
- Identifying issues relevant to CREA thematic areas, chalks out advocacy activities, organizes advocacy events, and maintains networks with other agencies and organizations for related activities.
Our Slogan
Be trained, be with the change
Training Modules
1.Basic counseling
Duration: 5 days
Description : Definition; basics of interpersonal communication; theoretical background; qualities of a good counselor; types of counseling – directive and nondirective counseling; stages of counseling process; developing micro skills in counseling – reflective listening, paraphrasing, giving empathy, etc; termination; supervision in counseling.
Suitable for: Anyone interested for counseling.
2.Drug (Substance Abuse) Counseling
Duration: 3 days
Description: Basics of interpersonal communication; basics of counseling techniques; identifying issues in chemical dependency counseling; case conceptualization; choosing different techniques- behavioral and cognitive techniques; case management; counseling the significant others (family members etc).
Suitable for: Anyone interested for counseling.
3.Parenting Training-1
Duration: 3 days
Description: Parents face issues at very early stage of their children and especially when children are going through growing pain. This intense training course would help you to learn: How to talk to your children so that they will listen to you; how to listen to your children so they feel genuinely understood; how to resolve conflicts and problems in your family so that no one loses and problems stay solved; a method for troubleshooting family problems and knowing which skills to use to solve them.
Suitable for: Parents and caregivers who have children aged 12-19.
4.Parenting Training-2
Duration: 3 days
Description: Parents need to know that like adults all children and adolescents’ behavior including the problem behaviors have purposes too – no beghavior is purposeless. So, whenever any problem behavior occurs parents may try to look for the causes behind that particular ‘problem’ behavior and the benefits the child is getting out of it. This intense training course would help you to learn how to give encouragement or strokes; reflection and reflexivity; how to show empathy to your child; how to listen actively/empathically; how to deal with ‘the parent child coercive circle’; giving independence; how to deal with special problems; Mindful parenting; etc.
Suitable for: Parents and caregivers who has children aging 12-19 years of age.
5.HIV/AIDS
Duration: 3 days
Description : Overview of HIV and AIDS scenario-Global, regional & country scenario; basic information about HIV/AIDS and related terminologies; prevention of HIV transmission in MARGs and general population; essential services, basic concepts on VCT; psycho-social support for PLWHAs; understanding stigma and discrimination.
Suitable for: NGO workers in HIV field.
6.Interpersonal Communication
Duration: 3 days
Description: The ability to build rapport and trust to present oneself and one’s ideas with clarity and professionalism and to be able to handle challenging situation is invaluable. Our interpersonal communication workshops are fun, entertaining, practical, challenging and highly effective in bringing about a change in behavior. The training contents are communication basics; perception and listening; verbal & nonverbal communication; definition of interpersonal communication; relationships; interpersonal communication and culture; lifecycles of relationships; interpersonal communication and conflict; and professional and crisis communication.
Suitable for: Anyone including marketing, sales and corporate people.
7.Stress Management & Relaxation
Duration: 3 days
Description : Understanding stress – short-term and long-term consequences of stress on human functioning; life style and stress; personality type and stress; identifying stressors; assessment of stress and burnout; behavioral and cognitive techniques of dealing with stress; understanding relaxation; different relaxation techniques (progressive muscle relaxation, breathing relaxation, imaginal techniques, some eastern techniques).
Suitable for: Everyone, health service providers.
8.Life Skills (Adolescents)
Duration: 3 days
Description: CREA developed life-skill training for the adolescent group focusing on increasing the abilities for adaptive and positive behavior that would enable them to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life. Analysis of the life skills field suggests that there is a core set of skills that are at the heart of skillsbased initiatives for the promotion of the health and well-being of children and adolescents. This training course focuses on this core set of skills listed below:
- Decision making
- Problem solving
- Creative thinking
- Critical thinking
- Effective communication
- Interpersonal relationship skills
- Self-awareness
- Empathy
- Coping with emotions
- Coping with stress
Suitable for: Adolescents.
9.Preventing Child Sexual Abuse
Duration: 3 days
Description: Caregivers need to understand child sexual abuse and their role in preventing it. Education in this area should be in the context of explaining healthy sexual development.
Contents of this training: Definition of child sexual abuse, including the continuum of appropriate, inappropriate, and harmful behaviors; challenge commonly-held myths about child sexual abuse; describe warning signs for sexually offending behaviors and victimization (i.e., what to watch for); discuss how to talk to their children about sexuality and child sexual abuse as well as how to talk to other adults about child sexual abuse both before and after any suspicion of sexual abuse has been raised; explain caregivers’ responsibility to act if they witness or hear about inappropriate or harmful behaviors; resources for seeking help.
Suitable for: Everyone, health service providers, parents and caregivers.
10.Couple Conflict
Duration: 3 days
Description: Couples sometimes face difficulties in their relationship with each other. This training is for those couple who are suffering pain in their relationship and unable to find any solution to resolve their problems.
This interactive training course would help couples-
- To understand different aspects related to couple conflict
- To identify their problems for effective interventions
- Provide strategies and tools to help couples successfully manage their conflict
- Techniques for couples to deepen their intimacy and understanding
Suitable for: Anyone interested to manage conflict in couple relationship.
11.Training on Psychosexual Dysfunction
Duration: 3 days
Description: Understanding Psycho-sexual Dysfunction (PSD); an orientation about different psychosexual problems covering both genders such as erectile dysfunction; premature ejaculation, retarded ejaculation, frigidity etc; causes of PSD; assessment – areas and techniques of; different intervention methods and techniques for male and female PSD (psycho-education, conjoint therapy).
Suitable for: Suitable for anyone interested in the field of sex and sexuality.
12.Training of Trainers (TOT)
Duration: 11 days
Description:
COURSE OBJECTIVES
- After successfully completing this course, the participants will be able to:
- Explain the concept and process of training.
- Describe the principles of adult learning.
- Design a need-based training program.
- Implement a training program through the use of modern training methods and media.
- Evaluate a training program by using different evaluation instrument.
COURSE OUTLINE
- Training concept & process
- Learning principles/Training system
- Assessment of training needs
- Objective setting
- Program designing
- Training evaluation
- Training management
- Training methodology
TRAINING METHODS
Principles for selection of a training method: lecture, presentation, discussion, case study, role playing, business game, VIPP and other participatory methods of training; Audio-visuals aids in training; use of effective visual aids; preparation of visual aids.
Suitable for: This training program is suitable for training managers and trainers of any organization and also individuals who are interested to become training professionals.
Organizational Clients
Some of the organizations who have subscribed to our training courses:
- World Vision Bangladesh (WVB)
- United Nation Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
- National Volunteers, Volunteering Services Overseas (VSO), Bangladesh
- APOSH, CARE Project
- Chevron, Bangladesh
- Leprosy Mission Bangladesh
- RDRS
- Bangladesh Youth First Concern (BYFC)
- BARACA, a project of Caritas Bangladesh