Training & Development - Green Chimneys

The Year of the Rabbit Meets the World of Pancake

January 30, 2023

Training & Development

As part of Green Chimneys’ support to staff, online learning opportunities and job-related training continue to be available via Biz Library and other resources.

Required Training: COVID-19 and Trauma Awareness for All Staff
A new training focused on the impact and effects related to trauma as we live through the turbulence of this pandemic. The session is informative and full of tips and strategies designed to strengthen personal coping strategies and adopt new ways of working with others. The training features a video and Powerpoint presentations for direct care and non-direct care staff; the direct care version includes additional strategies centered on working with youth.

Many other required staff trainings are also continuing. Please contact the staff member connected to the program you need:

TCI Refreshers
Jackie Larkin
[email protected]

Compliance Training
Biz Library Access
Heidi Duelfer
[email protected]

Teacher Trainings
Ed Dalpe
[email protected]

Brownie

With the completion of an elaborate new habitat built by Green Chimneys’ woodshop students, the Farm Science classroom was able to welcome Brownie into her new home. Brownie previously lived alone in her cage in the farm and wildlife office, but guinea pigs do best in larger environments. The new habitat allows her to live in a herd as she would in the wild, with many places to hide and ways to practice her skills. Brownie has always been a social creature, and she has taken over the guinea pig herd but is a very peaceful leader.