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Self Study Series 10: Being a Befriender

This self-study pack will ensure your befrienders are ready for their role. 

Befriending is one of the most popular volunteer roles and it is vital volunteers are properly trained. Working through this pack will give them the knowledge, enthusiasm and confidence to go on to become an effective befriender

This is a multi-licence product and you have unlimited printing rights for use by the volunteers within the purchasing branch of the organisation.
Author

Kay Curtis

Resources

Self Study Training Pack

Experience Level Needed

Beginner

Access

Multi Download and Online Access

Duration

Own Pace

Price

£
25

What's included?

  • Session Timetable
  • Timed Activities
  • Trainer notes
  • Training material in PPT files 
  • Pre Course questionnaire
  • Training Evaluation form
  • Session extension ideas
  • Activity sheets
  • Case Studies
  • Achievement cards and certificates

Overview

This self-study pack will ensure your befrienders are ready for their role. Covers a variety of befriending roles.

Befriending is one of the most popular volunteer roles and it is vital volunteers are properly trained. Working through this pack will give them the knowledge, enthusiasm and confidence to go on to become an effective befriender.

This is a multi-licence product and you have unlimited printing rights for use by the volunteers within the purchasing branch of the organisation.

Objective

By the end of the session participants will:

- have understood the meaning of befriender
- have an understanding of who funds and refers to the befriending project
- have explored the role of befriender
- have identified the client’s needs and the expected outcomes from befriending
- have acknowledged the skills needed for a befriender
- have thought about ways of setting boundaries within the befriending relationship
- have explored situations that may arise in the befriending relationship and ways of dealing with them
- have formulated a checklist for getting support

Once complete the volunteer meets with the co-ordinator to go through their responses and deal with any questions or concerns. The volunteer then has their own personal resource that they can add to and refer back to whenever necessary.
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