Neighborhood Networks Interactive Virtual Learning Courses—Career Preparation

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The Career Preparation: Goal Setting Interactive Virtual Learning Course will present evidence-based techniques on goal-setting used by professional athletes, winning entrepreneurs, effective business managers, and successful students. The course objectives are to build participant goal-setting skills and to demonstrate the simple power of a well-written goal. Course participants will learn key concepts that they can successfully apply in their own lives. Once goal-setting skills are learned, they can be mastered quickly and used to develop and successfully implement any career plan.

Upon completion of this course, participants have the skills and knowledge necessary to:

	Define the purpose/importance of goal setting.
	Distinguish the SMART Goal model from other goal-setting formats.
	Recognize large goals and break them down into sub-goals.
	Apply the SMART Goal model to their own goal setting.
	Develop and write SMART goals related to self-sufficiency.

About the Instructors

Lizette A. Galicot has more than 17 years of experience designing and managing national award-winning multifamily resident services and self-sufficiency programs. During a career that has placed her at the forefront of self-sufficiency efforts in San Diego, California, Ms. Galicot has established seven award-winning public housing and Neighborhood Networks centers, as well as a nationally recognized Family Self-Sufficiency Program (FSS). Ms. Galicot has developed technical training manuals and materials for professional instruction, and has conducted multiple training seminars and capacity-building programs for staff, contractors, service providers, and clients.

Co-instructor Kathi Thomas-Gibson has more than 16 years of experience in the human services field, 10 of which were spent serving individuals living in assisted housing as a supervisor of resident services. In this role, Ms. Thomas-Gibson was responsible for the design, implementation, evaluation, and supervision of various public housing, multifamily housing, and community learning and technology centers. Ms. Thomas-Gibson creates and implements high-quality self-sufficiency programming, and has conducted extensive training for housing authority staff across the western United States. Ms. Thomas-Gibson is the co-founder of the professional enhancement group, the Southern California Family Self-Sufficiency Network. She has also managed Welfare-to-Work, Moving-to-Work and multiple Resident Opportunity and Self Sufficiency (ROSS) funded programs.

Participation

Career Preparation: Goal Setting will teach residents how to establish effective career goals as the first step in implementing a career plan that will guide them toward a promising future and greater self-sufficiency.

Center staff are also welcome to participate and become familiar with the information residents will receive. Staff can encourage residents to participate in the live broadcasts, or utilize the archived versions as an added center resource that residents can access at their convenience. To help center staff market the IVLC, Neighborhood Networks has created color and black-and-white posters that can be downloaded, printed, and distributed to residents as standalone documents or added into property or center newsletters.

To participate in either live or archived sessions, you can either register online or download, complete, and submit the IVLC registration form. The live course schedule is provided below. Sessions will be recorded and can be accessed at any time after the conclusion of the live session. After registration is confirmed, participants will receive an e-mail with additional course information and access instructions.