Training & Educational Materials Services
Clients looking for these services say:
- “We need to improve our trainings.”
- “We could use help developing a train-the-trainer program.”
- “We like our materials, but our participants don’t!”
- “Making our materials friendly to non-native English speakers is a high priority.”
In response:
1. New Perspectives creates innovative trainings that reflect client aims and participant learning styles.
Clients benefit via:
- Customized, hands-on, popular education-inspired curricula and materials
- Curricula models applied from other successful programs
- Content drawn from formal research and other sources
- Comprehensive training evaluation
2. New Perspectives conducts training that meets participants where they are and that builds their capacities.
Clients benefit via:
- Teams of participants armed with the knowledge, skills, and confidence they need to apply the training in the real world
- Trainers (via train-the-trainer workshops) who not only understand the content of the training but who know how to facilitate learning
- Participants who are excited to be learning through interactive, learner-directed methods
- Pre-training participant learning assessments
Success Stories
Becoming Evaluators: Training toward Transformation
A group of unions sought to develop teams of workers and staff who would carry out program evaluations. However, most teams had only a few members who had any previous formal evaluation experience.
New Perspectives assessed participants’ assets and needs, coordinated a planning team, designed adult and empowerment education-based learning experiences, delivered the training, and facilitated evaluation of the series of annual workshops.
These clients saw their teams’ knowledge, skills, and confidence blossom. In turn, the teams successfully carried out multiple program evaluations on their own. Over time, the sophistication of these evaluations (and of the trainings themselves) increased to match the growing expertise of the teams. And the teams used their evaluation results to revise their programs’ curricula and strengthen their programs overall.
From Research-y to Readable: Writing for the Public
Surrounded by hundreds and hundreds of pages of academic research on a health topic, a federal agency contacted New Perspectives about translating these findings into information for the U.S. public.
New Perspectives synthesized the data, developed key themes, created the text, and worked with academic review teams and staff to complete a series of publications. As a result, the agency now has an engaging, easy-to-read, research- and health behavior theory-based set of publications that speaks comfortably to a diverse national audience.
3. New Perspectives transforms complex concepts or text into engaging, accessible educational materials for laypeople. AND
4. New Perspectives develops educational materials for people with limited literacy skills or for users of languages other than English.
Clients benefit via:
- Learning experiences that invest audiences in key take-away content
- Materials that reflect the messaging and values of the organization
- Integration of content from multiple sources, often including formal research sources
- Text language and style tailored to primary audiences’ cultural and communication styles
- Audience research, including pilot testing of materials
Training Topic Examples
New Perspectives develops and delivers trainings on a host of topics. Some examples include:
- Evaluation 101: The Basic Why’s and How’s
- Going Deep and Going Broad: Making Sense of Quantitative and Qualitative Data
- Living Your Participatory Values: How-To’s and How-Not-To’s
- The Nuts and Bolts of Developing a Participatory Decision-Making Process
- Model Search: Developing a Useful Conceptual Model
- Setting Strategic Directions: A Primer
- The Art and Science of Project Planning
- The Ongoing Practice of Anti-Oppression and Multiculturalism
- Leadership Development: 360-Degree Nurturing
Materials Format and Topic Examples
New Perspectives develops educational print materials in a variety of formats and on a wide range of topics, as highlighted below.
| Format |
Topic |
| Curriculum and trainer notes |
Evaluation how-to |
| Report |
Health and limited literacy |
| Working paper |
Participatory evaluation lessons learned |
| Peer-reviewed journal article |
Occupational health policy change |
| Briefing paper |
Strategic directions in women’s/girls’ issues |
| Guidebook |
Support for caregivers of people with cancer |
| Fact sheet |
Workers’ compensation legal issues |
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Success Stories
Becoming Evaluators: Training toward Transformation
A group of unions sought to develop teams of workers and staff who would carry out program evaluations. However, most teams had only a few members who had any previous formal evaluation experience.
New Perspectives assessed participants’ assets and needs, coordinated a planning team, designed adult and empowerment education-based learning experiences, delivered the training, and facilitated evaluation of the series of annual workshops.
These clients saw their teams’ knowledge, skills, and confidence blossom. In turn, the teams successfully carried out multiple program evaluations on their own. Over time, the sophistication of these evaluations (and of the trainings themselves) increased to match the growing expertise of the teams. And the teams used their evaluation results to revise their programs’ curricula and strengthen their programs overall.
From Research-y to Readable: Writing for the Public
Surrounded by hundreds and hundreds of pages of academic research on a health topic, a federal agency contacted New Perspectives about translating these findings into information for the U.S. public.
New Perspectives synthesized the data, developed key themes, created the text, and worked with academic review teams and staff to complete a series of publications. As a result, the agency now has an engaging, easy-to-read, research- and health behavior theory-based set of publications that speaks comfortably to a diverse national audience.
