What is a GammaMentor?
A GammaMentor or group facilitator is a woman who has taken the Gamma Facilitators’ Training. She can be any Christian woman interested in working with the young women of today.
Who would make a good GammaMentor?
Effective Gammagirls’ Mentors are dynamic, motivated, experienced and comfortable with working with youth, and, most importantly, mature in their Christian faith. It is also important that they enjoy this age group and are good communicators. Gammagirls are enthusiastic young teens who embrace positive role models in their lives; therefore, having the right leaders will serve to enhance the positive outcomes of this program. Note: These women need to be listeners. Women who want to preach at the girls from their own past mistakes should be avoided.
If I am running this program in my church, do the Mentors need to attend my church?
We definitely prefer and strongly recommend that Mentors be members of the church at which the Gammagirls’ group is held. This is one of the reasons that we train women within your church and community instead of sending our own facilitators to simply run a program and then leave. Facilitators of Gammagirls’ groups act as short-term mentors to help girls develop essential tools and realize their own potential. While the official mentorship does not continue after the ten weeks, seeing their former Mentors at church every week following will be a reminder to the girls of what they have learned and, most importantly, a reminder that there are women in their lives who care about them. Go HERE to find a GammaMentors’ Training session in your area.
How can I get Mentors’ Training at my church?
It’s simple: first, organize at least 25 people to take the training (the training program was designed for potential facilitators, but it can also be informative for interested parents, curious church leaders, or anyone else interested in the program or in teen girl culture).Then contact Jill at the Pregnancy Care Centre at (403) 269-3112 ext 223 or e-mail info@gammagirls.org to book a time for the training. Each training participant is asked to pay $99 to cover the cost.
There is no training in my area/ I can’t make the training scheduled. What are my options?
Though live training is always the best option, we do have a 4-disk DVD training session that can be purchased for $85.
What are the benefits of sending several people from my church to a training session?
The more facilitators that are trained at your church, the more programs can be run and the more likely it is that there will be people to keep the program running after the first one is finished. We want Gammagirls to be as successful as it can possibly be: therefore, we offer a discounted training price of $75 per training participant if more than three participants from the same church attend a training session.
What does a Gammagirls’ group consist of?
Each group will contain between six and twelve girls and two Mentors. Groups work best if the Mentors are from two different generations. We suggest that one be a “mature” Mentor--that is, someone who has a lot of life experience, and, ideally, is married so that she can share those experiences. The other is a young woman in her 20s. She is closer in age to the girls so that she can better identify with them. This balance creates a healthy dynamic, offering the Gammagirls both the wisdom that comes with maturity and the enthusiasm and appeal of youth.
The group meets once every week for 10 weeks. Each session is two hours long.
How can I advertise this information to my church?
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