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The primary responsibility for staff training rests on the leadership of the local Teen Challenge center. However, we strongly encourage nations to provide staff training at the national, regional or international level.
In many Teen Challenge centers, one staff may carry specific responsibilities but not have anyone else to assess them or point out areas for growth. Bringing staff together from different centers offers great opportunities for learning from each other.
Global Teen Challenge sees its role as assisting nations to set up their own training models. For example, Teen Challenge USA is the national headquarters for the 200+ centers in the USA. The TCUSA office coordinates the production of specific staff training programs, for example, the Personal Studies for New Christians Teacher Certification Training and the Committed to Freedom Teacher Training. TCUSA has developed these training materials in partnership with the authors of the curriculum and provides the training on an on-going basis. They certify the teachers who complete the training.
This model demonstrated by TCUSA is the model that Global TC recommends for other countries in the world. This offers great potential to help other centers, even if they are not part of the same legal corporation. For example, there are many other faith based programs in the USA which are not Teen Challenge that have certified PSNC teachers.
Setting up a National Training Program
1. Leadership is the key to the success of a national training process or program. In the USA one of the national leaders carries a job description of overseeing staff training and curriculum. In Brazil, a Teen Challenge director serves as the National Curriculum Director for the nation.
2. We recommend that a national committee be established which would be made up of TC leaders from around the nation who have an interest and experience in training. This committee should be seen as a serving committee, not a ruling committee. The greatest benefit will come when leaders lead with a biblically based “servant-leader” style.
If the primary responsibility for staff training is at the local center level, then the main agenda for the national committee is to seek ways to help local centers be more effective in training their staff.
This kind of sharing at the national level and serving at the national level can go a long way in building a positive spirit of working together with other centers across the nation.
3. This national committee should have several major priorities:
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