Horizons Team Conducts Panther PREP Training

Martin Brennan, director of Horizons Consulting; Jordan Fisher, Camp Horizons facilitator/trainer and Wayne Berger, director of Horizons Outdoor Learning Center, conducted training at the Charleston Job Corps Center March 26-30, 2012 with senior staff, SGA Leadership and designated staff facilitators. The team from Horizons worked with staff to certify or recertify facilitators working with the center’s Panther PREP (Pride, Retention, Experience and Process) program that is part of the center’s Career Preparation Period. As part of CPP new students experience the PREP program, which includes introductory exercises as well as high and low ropes elements designed to promote critical thinking, teambuilding and communication skills. The Horizons team also conducted training with senior management at CJCC to reintroduce staff to the low and high ropes elements and how those elements can benefit the CPP program and other programs on center. The team also conducted a two-hour all-staff training in which certified facilitators led the staff through parts of the introductory and low elements of the PREP program.