Educational Awards of Excellence Cover Sheet

1. California Parks and Recreation District 1 Annual Fall

Workshop

2. CPRS District 1 3. Samantha Holland-Wagner

4. 1100 West St. Napa, CA 94559

5. 707.257.9338

6. sholland-wagner@cityofnapa.org

7. Educational-Multi Topic Focus

1. Criterion—Purpose/Main Objective- State the purpose or objective of the educational program. Describe how the program furth ered the District, Section, Task Force or Committee’s strategic goals. The main objective of the CPRS District I Fall Workshop is to offer a centralized, multi faceted, day long training to the professionals in our area. We focus on broader topic areas that many different types of full time professionals would benefit from. We price our full day workshop fairly low, to try and capture the agencies that may not have the training budget to send staff to the larger and more expensive trainings being offered.

District Ones mission is to promote and enhance the benefits of parks and recreation through the empowerment of its members. The Fall Workshop furthered this mission by educating, motivating and inspiring those in attendance to go back to their agencies and try something new. We hope that everyone in attendance brought back at least one “GEM” to their agency to put into action.

2. Criterion—Results- Describe the results of your edu cational program

evaluation. The results of our evaluation are that 100% of those who responded felt the workshop is a good value. 100% feel that the sessions attracted a variety of recreation professionals. On a scale of 1-10, 10 being highest, 9.1% rated the overall workshop a 5, 18.2% a 6, 36.4% a 7, 27.3% an 8 and 9.1% a 10. All of our breakout sessions received good or excellent ratings.

3. Criterion—Results- Based on participant evaluations , indicate how the learning objectives were met. Based on the evaluation results, we feel that our educational objectives were definitely met. We feel that the participants enjoy taking part in a quality training that is near to their homes and workplaces and that we motivated and inspired those who attended.

4. Criterion—VIP Support- Relate how the learning expe rience supported implementation of the CPRS VIP Action Plan. The District 1 Fall Workshop supported the implementation of the VIP Action Plan by having Idris Al- Oboudi as our keynote presenter. Idris was chosen solely to bring a clearer view and reminder to those in attendance just how useful and how important the VIP Action plan is. I think everyone in attendance left with a much broader understanding of the usefulness of this tool and hopefully, were inspired to take it back to their agencies and get them moving if they aren’t already using the VIP Action Plan. We also provided disks with all of the tools to anyone who was interested and gave away 50 disks that day.

5. Criterion—Resources- Describe the resources (people , money, time) that were

utilized- be specific including how the educational program planning committee utilized the CPRS tools of the trade Tool Kit. The CPRS District One board had a subcommittee of 4 board members and 2 agency volunteers. The subcommittee met 4 times for one hour each and had ongoing email communication.

In total, the number of man hours spent on the Fall Workshop was approximately 70. The district spent $2930.25 on this event. We worked together with Leslie at the state office to acquire presenter’s information. The presenters had already submitted information sheets to the state office so Leslie forwarded those on to us. We utilized the tool kit for promotional ideas and structural reference of the sessions.

6. Criterion—Attendee Interaction- Illustrate how inte ractive learning occurred as

attendees discussed a topic or engaged in group pro blem solving via exercise. Be specific with time, description or exe rcise and or group work. In the majority of our sessions, the attendees were engaged in interactive activities. Also networking times were set aside from 8:30-9:00am and during lunch from 12:00-12:45pm. For example, in our Marketing 101 session, small groups spent 10 minutes coming up with a marketing plan for an activity after the bulk of the presentation to show what they had learned. In “Preparing to Promote” the attendees went through mock interviews to practice their skills.

7. Explain how the program was marketed outside the Di strict, Section, Task

Force or Committee’s target members to capture a wi der audience. The Fall Workshop was marketed outside of district I by sending promotional materials to Districts I, II and III. Because of our close proximity to these districts, we tend to get participants from them. Of the people in attendance at the fall workshop, 35% were from outside of District One. Our board also made a conscious effort to promote this event to people in similar professions who are most likely not members of CPRS such as Boys and Girls Clubs, Boy and Girl Scouts Groups Leaders, American Camping Association Members and private program and daycare providers. We had several attendees from non, park and recreation agency.

8. Describe how collaboration occurred between other C PRS Districts, Sections,

Task Forces or Committee’s. We collaborated with the Supervisor’s section to promote this event. We also applied to the Supervisor’s section for their training grant to assist us in hiring a higher caliber key note speaker and in turn provide a better program to our members.