Team Up for School Nutrition Success: Skilled Helper Model Presenter Marjuyua Lartey-Rowser, PhD, RD

Discussion Aim: To introduce the framework for Team Up for School Nutrition Success – The Skilled Helper Model

Layout and Design of the Team Up Workshop Breakout Sessions Peer-to-peer mentoring Skilled Helper Model The Breakout Sessions is designed to be an opportunity for our participants and mentors to identify the key issues that the SNP may be facing in the 3 topic areas we will be presented today. To identify theses issues and some solutions to these issues we will be using a problem management model called the Skilled Helper Model.

Skilled Helper Model SLIDE We looked for the best way to address the needs of the participants in the Team Up for School Nutrition Success, and we identified this Skill Helper Model by Egan to help us help our participants. Some one once said that “Mentoring is probably the most powerful developmental process people can experience”. The Skilled Helper model helps mentor from a different perspective – guiding an individual to finding their own truth and their own solution. The Skilled Helper Model aims to help you address four main questions: 1) What is going on?, 2) What do I need or want instead? 3) How will I get what I need or want?, 4) How do I make it happen? These four questions are really 3 logical stages which leads to an ongoing action.

Skilled Helper Model: Stage I “The Current Picture” Task 1 A. The Story What is your story? Participant tells their story as clear as possible; helps reveal and discuss their problems Task 1B. The Real Story What is really going on? Taking a closer look at the problem and reflect on what has been discussed to help identify new perspectives Task 1C. The Right Story What are the key issues that need to be worked on? What issues, if handled well, will make a real difference ? Drilling down to the core issue (s) SLIDE Each Stage in the Skill Helper model has three major tasks. I will briefly explain each stage and each task so that we can understand what we need to be doing during the breakout sessions. Stage 1 – is call the current picture. It helps to ask the question “what is currently going on in my SNP”?. In responding to this question, you are given a safe place to tell your story and be heard without judgment. The tasks are activities that will help you spell out what is really going on in your school district. Task A - What is your story? This is where the you tell you story as clearly as possible – providing not too much info and not to little; This is where you reveal and discuss problems you are facing as you attempt to meet the current meal pattern requirements. Task B - What is really going on? Taking a closer look at the problem and reflect on what has been discussed to help identify new perspectives… This one can be more challenging as you try to help the participant get to the root of the problem. Task c - What are the key Issues that need to be worked on? What issues , if handled well, will make a real difference ? This is where the helper tries to move the participant along. Drilling down to the core issue (s). In this task, you Choose an area that you have the ability to move forward on. The work done in this first stage should help stimulate action that lead to the preferred outcomes.

Skilled Helper Model: Stage II “Preferred Picture” Task 2A. Possibilities What do I want? Creative part; what do you want the future to look like for the specific area? Task 2B. Goals and Outcomes What do I really want? Setting SMART Goals Task 2C. Commitment What am I willing to pay? Test the realism of the goal. SLIDE Stage II is the preferred outcome stage. This process will help you imagine the kind of future you want to see for their school nutrition program in terms of goals and outcomes. The 3 tasks in this process lead to achievable goals and outcomes Task 2 A – helps you ask What do I want? Now this is the Creative part; (Simply Put – Brainstorming all the possible goals – no limits!!!) Task 2B – starts to drill down to What do I really want? (Choosing the Best Goal out of that brainstorming activity). This is where you start Setting SMART Goals S.M.A.R.T. GOAL S.M.A.R.T. goal is defined as one that is specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Aleshia/Lawanda will explain this in detail in a moment. Task 2C. – asks the question What am I willing to pay (to reach these goals that you are establishing)? This is food for thought during the process and good be done in conjunction with task 2b. Before they begin to create these SMART goals. They need to test the realism of the goal. They need to be asking themselves – “what is the benefit or cost to achieve the goal.

Skilled Helper Model: Stage III “The Way Forward” Task 2A. Possibilities What do I want? Creative part; what do you want the future to look like for the specific area? Task 2B. Goals and Outcomes What do I really want? Setting SMART Goals Task 2C. Commitment What am I willing to pay? Test the realism of the goal. SLIDE Stage III deals with moving forward and also has three interrelated tasks. Task A. What are the possible paths to your goals? Brainstorm possible course of action to achieve goals set. Task B. What strategy or set of strategies are best for me? Drilling down to the strategies that are right for that particular program. (Planning Specific steps to achieve the goal!!!!) Task C. How do I organize my strategies to accomplish my goals? What do I do first? Second? Third? (This is what they need to decide once they get back to their local school district)

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