Greetings for the Holidays!

We hope you are having peaceful times with your families, and we are looking forward to 2012!

Mentor Meeting - Save the Date!

We are pleased to announce the 2012 Mentor Meeting will be 19-21 September, in Dublin, Ireland! This will be sponsored by Archways. The first day, Wednesday, will be devoted to a research conference, with Thursday and Friday devoted to our normal mentor supervision activities. We are already looking forward to the event, and hope you ALL will be able to attend!

Workshop DVDs are Ready

All of you who enjoyed viewing the sample workshop DVDs, showing Carolyn delivering the 3-day Basic parent workshop, they are now ready for purchase. We apologize for the delay as the manual itself was not finished at the time of the mentor meeting here in Seattle, and we also experienced a delay receiving the PAL version of the DVDs. But we have it all now! View the Experts In Action: Parenting Program Facilitator Training DVD set

Incredible Years Overview Book - Update

This update of the Blueprints book is also ready to go! We received our copies from the printers on 7 December, and we are happy to send out to you if you are interested. We are offering mentors a 50% discount for this book to cover costs of printing… Some of you have your research highlighted in the volume, so you should be receiving a copy from us gratis at any moment… The Incredible Years Parents, Teachers and Children's Training Series

NEW! Consultation Day Preparation Tips

These are handy for you to use with group leaders coming for a consultation day, teachers you are meeting with, etc. We hope you find them useful. Follow the links below or find them on the Mentor Resources page of the website.

Parenting Program - consultation
Dina Program - consultation
Teacher Classroom Management Program - consultation
Teacher Program - consultation

Group Leader Mentoring Gems Form

We also have new version of the Mentoring Gems form  that will be available soon. If you try this form let us know if you found it useful. Here's a link to the current Mentoring Gems form (fillable PDF).

Friendly Reminders: 

1. Please when you send your workshop evaluations, would you tally the responses on a cover page, and please remember to send your protocol checklist along with the evaluations.

2. Please! We have noticed that some workshops are not getting entered to the database (the workshop is there, but no participants are entered) – will you take some time soon and make sure your entries are up to date? If this is not done, folks are not registered for future accreditation.

3. Lastly there have been quite a few certification packs coming through to us recently, and we've been doing our best to get to them quickly. But one thing we've noticed is that sometimes on the Parent Final Satisfaction questionnaires the parents' comments section is left out, or the group leader evaluation section is left out. We'd appreciate these coming to us complete. Thanks!

Fondly, Carolyn