Training Thoughts

Hello Dear Counselors,

It was so wonderful to meet so many of you at training last week! We had a very busy night together and our hope and prayer is that you are able to look back and remember one or two things that you will be able to incorporate into your GEMS year. When you attend training with fellow club counselors, you will then have combined learning and be able to kick off your year with a bang!

For "NEW COUNSELORS" I would like to recommend that you go to the GEMS Girls Club website- gemsgc.org. Click on leaders, then counselor training video. You will get to watch Lenae go through all of the basics of being a counselor in a very engaging way to help you understand your role and its responsibilities. I highly recommend this! I realize that at the training you may not have learned 'everything you ever wanted to know about being a GEMS counselor', so hopefully this will fill in the gaps.

Thanks to all who filled out evaluation forms. These are very helpful to us. We are going to be having some questions for you in the coming weeks, asking you to give us feedback for format choices for next year. Your input is VERY valuable, so we will look forward to the responses that we receive.

If you are reading this on the actual blog- Congratulations! You found it and hopefully have it now saved to your favorites so you can check it weekly.
If you are reading this as a result of the bulk email- Great! Thanks for reading it through. I would ask that you check out the blog at http://gemsarea2.blogspot.com

I will look forward to hearing how your clubs kicked off the year!

Blessings,
Kathy Roosma