The Real Cost of Prisons Project



The Real Cost of Prisons Project

Train the Trainers Workshop Application

Training Dates

Saturday, October 9th through Tuesday, October 12th, 2004

Northampton, Massachusetts

Application Deadline: Email: September 3, 2004

By mail: postmarked no later than August 31, 2004

Faxed no later than September 3, 2004

Before you fill out this application, read the description of the Train the Trainers workshops (train.html) and the workshop outlines (workshops.html).

Please respond to all 15 questions.

1. Name

2. Home Address

City State ZIP

3. Home Phone Daytime Phone

4. Best times to reach you

5.. Email address

6. Which workshop do you want to teach?

The Real Cost of the War on Drugs

The Real Cost of Prisons on Women and Their Children

The Real Cost of Financing and Siting of Prisons

7. Paid and non-paid work related to the workshop you would like to be trained to teach.

For each organization include where the organization is located, time period in which you work/worked. Briefly describe the work you do/did.

A.

B.

C.

8. Current paid employment: job title, workplace, location, dates of employment. Briefly describe the work you do.

9. Previous paid employment. Include same info as above.

A.

B.

10. Organizing experience

Briefly describe the two organizing experiences that are most important to you and the role you played in them.

A.

B.

11. Education

List the schools you attended, location of the school(s), dates you attended and graduation dates.

A.

B.

C.

12. References

Provide the name, phone # and email address of two people who can speak about your current organizing work and your relationship to the reference (co-worker, friend, etc.)

A.

B.

13. Other Information

To bring together a diverse group, we ask for the following information. If you would rather not answer, please don’t.

Age Gender

Do you identify as: White African American Hispanic Asian Other

Where were you born?

Where were you raised?

If you would prefer a phone interview instead of writing the answers to the following questions, please let us know.

Yes, please call me

Please make sure to give us times when you can be reached.

14. Why do you want to be trained to teach this workshop?

➢ Limit the answers to the all of the question below to two pages.

➢ Focus your reply on the issues involved in the workshop you want to teach.

➢ Please address how your personal and political experience has prepared you to teach this workshop.

➢ Tell us how this new aspect of your work will compliment and/or be integrated your current paid or non-paid justice/advocacy work.

➢ Tell us how you will have the time to do this work.

Use the two blank pages at the end of this application for your answer.

15. Important Information for people whose organization can pay all or part of the cost of the training.

The Train the Trainers workshop is free. Transportation, accommodations and meals will be paid by the Real Cost of Prisons Project. However, if you or your organization can pay all or part of the cost of your travel, hotel and meals this will allow us to expand our training group to include additional trainees. If your organization can sponsor your training include the organization’s name, address, contact name, phone number and email address of the person at the organization making the decision. Please include the amount you or your organization can assume.

You will be notified about your acceptance on September 9th.

Applications can be mailed, faxed or emailed to:

The Real Cost of Prisons Project

5 Warfield Place

Northampton, MA 01060

fax- 413-586-0285

email- lois@

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