Male Ambassador Program
KidZKount: Placer Community Action Council, Inc.
Golden Sierra Life
Skills is the contract
provider for the KidZKount: Placer Community Action Council (P.C.A.C.),
Inc and oversees the Male Involvement Program.
The goal of the Male
Involvement program is to encourage and support fathers/father
figures in the role of an active participant in the lives of
children. This is done by providing a variety of opportunities
for participation/interactions in the KidZKount: Placer Community
Action Council (P.C.A.C.) system.
Golden Sierra Life
Skills developed and
implemented the School Site Male Ambassador Program. This program
provides Ambassador training to father/father figures who volunteer at
each school site. After the Ambassadors complete their training
they become peer educators and
mentors who support and encourage
other father/father figures to participate in Head Start
Program activities:
- “Daddy, Read To Me!”
This program is an early literacy program that instills the importance of
fathers/father figures reading to their children to stimulate brain
development and bonding with their children.
- "Daddy Read to Me" Red Bucks: Red Bucks is the incentive program
for participating in the "Daddy Read to Me” early literacy program.
- "Daddy in the Picture": This program encourages fathers/father
figures to participate in taking pictures with their children engaged
in activities together. The pictures are posted in a
socialization board at the school site for the children to see.
- Family Monthly Meetings: Father/father figures are encouraged to
participate in Program School Site Monthly meetings.
- Policy Council/Committee(s): Father/father figures are encouraged to
participate in the Head Start/Early Head Start governing committees.
- Involved Males Advisory committee.
- Opportunities for Male Parenting Education.
Men, Infants, and Children (MIC) Parenting and Life
Skills Program for Father/Father Figures with children 0- 5,
Man-to-Man Parenting/Life Skills/Peer Support Education for Father/Father
Figures with children 6 - teens.
Golden Sierra can
tailor the Ambassador Program the fit the needs of your
Agency.
We will come to your
site and provide a two day training of trainers. Your staff will learn
how to recruit, train, and sustain father/father figures in your Agency's
program.
For more information
regarding this training contact our office at 530-887-9245.