Train the Trainer
A goal of the PRINTS Family Literacy Network is to have more "Trainers of Facilitators" available for providing training for facilitators. Of course, a person can become self-trained by using the Train the Facilitator Manual and Video, and the Facilitation materials (Facilitator Handbook Parent Handbook and Parent Video). Some people still prefer to receive their training in a face-to-face workshop setting where there is opportunity to interact with others. Three people in Newfoundland, in addition to the author are now recognized trainers of facilitators. These are Hope Colbourne, from The Northern Peninsula/Labrador Straits Family Resource Centre, Jackie Penny from the Vista Family Resource Centre, Bonavista, and Una Hynes from the St. Joseph's Early Literacy Network, St. Joseph's, Salmonier.

Profiling PRINTS

PRINTS on the Great Northern Peninsula - Newfoundland

Hope stands by a display of her Family Resource Centre at the Western/Grenfell Networking Conference in Corner Brook

Hope Colbourne has been a key mover and promoter of PRINTS on the Great Northern Peninsula, the northernmost part of the island of Newfoundland. Hope is now director of The Northern Peninsula/Labrador Straits Family Resource Centre based in St. Anthony, but her work with PRINTS pre-dates her work at the Centre. Hope is from Griquet and became a recognized community and literacy leader in the early 90's when on the occasion of the moratorium on cod fishing in Newfoundland, people trying to recover from a devastating blow, turned to improving their education/literacy levels in the hope of training for other employment. Hope was at the forefront in coordinating and facilitating these education/literacy programs through the Community Education Centre of St. Lunaire/Griquet. Hope's first experience with PRINTS, after attending a training session in Deer Lake was to implement the PRINTS Program in the St. Lunaire/Griquet area. Her next project was major in scope and consisted of training 17 facilitators in 31 communities - from Reef's Harbour to Lance aux Meadows to Main Brook to Englee. This group, with parent participants gathered at Plum Point in late August of that year for a PRINTS wrap-up. Hope has been instrumental in cooperating and collaborating with other child-focussed agencies, particularly the school system. In a recent training session participants included Early Childhood Educators, a Child Care Consultant, and Behaviour Management Specialist. Sites currently in action or about to wrap-up include St. Anthony, Roddickton, and Griquet.