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Title	Duration (hours)	Description
Sales Skills: Advanced: Effectively Closing a Sale	0.75	This course will focus on demonstrating the benefits of your product or service to others, confirming the client’s commitment by recognizing and responding to signals, and closing the sale and following up with the client.
I Belong: Supporting Social Awareness and Interpersonal Skills	2.00	We all have lived full lives with varied experiences, both positive and negative. Whether we are aware or not, our experiences, including our social, political and cultural beliefs and background, affect our practice with youth. During this course, participants will learn about how culturally grounded beliefs and background affect our practice with youth, how to help raise our awareness of those factors, and reflect on current and new strategies that support the development young people’s social-awareness and interpersonal skills.
Incentives and Motivation	2.00	Motivation, incentives and rewards can help pull a team together and keep a successful staff on track. In our profession, incentives rarely come in the form of extra earnings, so we have to be creative in designing incentives. During this course, participants will look at several strategies for providing meaningful incentives for staff, as well as techniques to determine what motivates them and their staff.
Coaching: Communication (Instructor Guide)	1.00	Language is an important coaching tool. The use of suitable words during coaching will help you create relationships, repair employee confidence, and establish plans for employee success. As a coach, you must select words that directly influence your employees’ attitude, behavior, and performance. The use of appropriate language during your coaching sessions will help you convey your messages in a clear and encouraging manner. In this course you will learn to: clearly express your message by using appropriate language, identify and use nonverbal methods of communication, and receive the desired information by asking effective questions. This Instructor's Edition of this course includes notes and suggestions to assist you in presenting the material, whether in an in-person classroom setting or as an instructor-led online or distance-learning course. It also provides you with the answers to questions found in mid-lesson activities, as well as in the quiz that concludes the course.
OSTPD - Promoting Positive Youth Development	1.00	This training will define Positive Youth Development, benefits of Positive Youth Development and how to implement Positive Youth Development.
Odds & Endo: Part 1	1.50	Most entry-level providers agree that the topic of endocrinology is intimidating. We spend a good amount of time learning about diabetes mellitus, which is the most pervasive endocrine-related dysfunction that we see in the prehospital setting. We asked Dr. Jeremy Cushman to bring us to the next step. He does not discuss all of the disease states that the endocrinology world has to offer, but we do get a very good overview of some of the more common emergencies. We think you will enjoy his delivery and learning about one of the most misunderstood topics that we encounter at a basic level. Final Exam: This multiple-choice exam is designed to test your knowledge of the material you just reviewed. You have two attempts to gain an 80% or higher on this exam. Please take your time and answer each question carefully.
Employee Performance: Communication	1.00	Communication is effective when a listener clearly understands a speaker’s message. Good communication fosters a productive exchange of ideas while minimizing the possibility of confusion or misunderstanding. When trying to communicate with a difficult employee, you must be willing to work with that person to correct the problematic behavior. Openly discussing the behavior can help you find a mutually acceptable solution. In this course you will learn to: communicate clearly and effectively by using verbal and nonverbal communication, and improve your listening skills, and communicate with difficult supervisors and coworkers, take a proactive approach when dealing with difficult employees, and identify types of employee dismissals.
Motivation: Identifying, Planning, and Implementing: Using What You've Learned	0.50	In life, to be a successful, you must have a plan. Napoleon Hill, author of Think and Grow Rich, said, “Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.” This course has provided you with the information and—we hope—the inspiration to improve your motivational skills and work toward personal success. The final two steps are up to you: You must implement what you have learned and continue to work on improving your skills. In this course you will learn to: work toward improving your motivational skills by using the 21-day habit and satori, and use resources, including websites and books, to continue working on your motivational skills.
Animal Behavior 1: Why Study Animal Behavior?	1.00	Animal behavior is a topic that has fascinated people for centuries. The first course in the series will give an overview of behavior and highlight the many reasons to study animal behavior, the history of behavioral research, and the many different fields that study animal behavior.
Understanding the Behavior of Children and Youth	2.00	The development of children and youth can cause them to behave in ways that can be trying for even the most knowledgeable and experienced staff. When staff understands what is driving the behavior, they can help to guide and encourage acceptable behaviors. This course will provide participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to prevent unwanted behavior by meeting the needs of children and youth before they act out.
Coaching with Head and Heart	2.00	Leaders and managers need strategies to support others in their own growth and development. In this course, participants will be introduced to a coaching process that supports individuals to make more conscious decisions, build off their strengths and internal resources and take new action. Participants will understand when coaching is needed, the mindset required, and the critical skills needed for effective coaching, including deep listening and inquiry.
Microsoft Project 2021/365 Complete	16.00	30 Bird Media's Microsoft Project 2021/365 Complete courseware covers the concepts and skills needed for maximum productivity in Project, starting with fundamentals and working up to advanced tools and techniques. There are no specific prerequisites for this course. However, general computer user knowledge is assumed. Any additional experience having worked with forms and/or databases will be helpful. You will benefit most from this course if you have at least some prior knowledge of project management procedures and practices. It is intended to support you in applying this knowledge through the use of Microsoft Project as a project management tool.
OSTPD - Supporting Attendance through After School Programming	1.00	This training will cover a number of areas regarding how after school programs can support youth attendance in school. By looking at and exploring the connection between after school programming and attendance in school, we see how after school programming supports attendance at school as well as how to coordinate with the school in order to maximize the positive impact of after school on school attendance through collaboration.
Project Management - Advanced: Implementing Plans and Controlling Change	0.75	This course will cover how to use a project management information system, implement a work authorization system, and conduct mid-project evaluation. You will also learn how to identify the information and supplies needed to control project change, implement a change control system, and identify control maintenance methods.
Framing: Interviewing a Flight Medic	1.00	The advent of Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) has opened the door for care that is often superior to what can be done on the ground. Most providers will look to the speed of transport as the benefit that a helicopter can offer. This lesson is designed to allow the Ground Emergency Medical Service (GEMS) Provider a chance to think differently about HEMS. This interview sheds some light on how just one Flight Medic approaches her job. This enlightening talk will offer a GEMS provider the opportunity to value not just what HEMS can do for the patient but gain some insight as to how the people on the aircraft can make a difference to the persons in need of assistance. Final Exam: This multiple choice exam is designed to test your knowledge of the material you just reviewed. You have TWO attempts to gain a 70% or higher on this exam. Please take your time and answer each question carefully.
Suicide Prevention	1.25	This course covers suicide prevention measures and suicide prevention organizations as well as the disparities found in suicide data. After completing this course, you will be able to: Distinguish the disparities in suicide statistics Identify the risk factors that can lead to suicide Apply techniques to help prevent suicide Describe the work that suicide prevention programs are doing
Young Worker Safety Training	0.75	This course covers federal laws regarding working minors as well as common workplace hazards.
Presentation Methods and Debriefing Activities	2.00	There is no "one size fits all" approach to working with children and youth, and this is especially true when it comes to how we present and debrief activities. During this course, participants will understand the importance of the delivery and debriefing of an activity to help children and youth make meaning, as well as some specific methods that can be incorporated into the program right away.
English Learner Socio-Emotional Factors and Typologies Review	0.50	This course serves as a compliment to Knowing English Learners, an in-person training offered through CalSAC's English Learner Training and Professional Development Project. This review course is for CalSAC EL Trainers and participants. CalSAC Trainers can use this module as a way to brush up on the Socio-Emotional Factors and English Learner Typologies before conducting a training, and participants can use the module to further their understanding of the Factors and Typologies.
Managerial Leadership: Defining Employee Roles and Priorities (Instructor Guide)	1.50	A vision is created by an organization to inspire its members to work together to reach for an ideal of what the organization can become. The members of the organization should use the vision as the standard to determine the day-to-day functions of their individual roles. The vision is the guide to use every time an action is taken, a decision is made, or a plan is developed to improve the organization or the people in it. An organization’s vision should enable the members in every role to do what is in the best interest of the organization. In this course you will learn to: determine leader roles and strengthen employee roles, and align employee priorities and evaluate employee performance. This Instructor's Edition of this course includes notes and suggestions to assist you in presenting the material, whether in an in-person classroom setting or as an instructor-led online or distance-learning course. It also provides you with the answers to questions found in mid-lesson activities, as well as in the quiz that concludes the course.
Brain Development in Infants and Toddlers (CDA 8)	2.00	Brain development has changed over the last 20 years. Early brain development focused mainly on the intellectual aspects of the brain, but over the last 10 years, more focus has been placed on the social emotional exchanges in infancy and how that affects brain development. Early experiences predispose how children see the world. This course is designed to be part of a Child Development Associate (CDA) Credential™ curriculum and covers CDA Subject Area 8, Understanding Principles of Child Development and Learning. This course can also be taken as a stand-alone learning event or as part of a broader early childhood education curriculum.
Project Management - Advanced: Project Integration and Plan Development	0.50	This course will cover how to measure data during project integration and differentiate between project and product life cycles. You will also learn how to identify the importance of developing a project plan, the elements of a project plan, the key input required for project plan development, and methods used in project plan development.
GED: Reasoning Through Language Arts - Unit 8: Post-Test	0.25	Welcome to Unit 8: Post-Test. This post-test covers reading comprehension, writing, and editing. At the end of this post-test is a table that matches each question to the content it covers. Use it to review any content that you haven't mastered.
Time Management: Productivity	0.75	This course will focus on how to increase productivity by controlling interruptions and meetings and recognize and overcome factors that adversely affect productivity.
Project Teams: Preparing Teams for Project Work (Instructor Guide)	1.00	Building a project team is more complex than assigning employees to the team. Team members must feel a sense of dedication to other team members, as well as to the project itself. Members who are not dedicated to the project team often disregard meetings, deadlines, and commitments, causing the entire team to suffer. To avoid these problems, the team managers and supervisors need to encourage team building to benefit the project, the team members, and the organization. In this course you will learn to: empower and motivate a project team and develop positive culture in a project team, identify the causes of change in a team and manage change, and improve existing project teams. This Instructor's Edition of this course includes notes and suggestions to assist you in presenting the material, whether in an in-person classroom setting, or as an instructor-led online or distance-learning course. It also provides you with the answers to questions found in mid-lesson activities, as well as in the quiz that concludes the course.