Programs

Facilitators

Domestic:
The Peacemaker Corps recruits trainers for its programs from the broad local community, which  include adult volunteers who support mentoring organizations, professional educators and councilors,  executives who want to donate time to help youths, and women or men from low income backgrounds: people who know first-hand the issues of violence and conflict that young people have to face every day.

For the initial of their instruction, the volunteers complete a comprehensive two-day interactive program under the tutelage of the Association’s senior trainer, Bob Burley, and other professionally trained instructors, including Franklin/Covey associates and staff.  At the conclusion of the workshop, the newly trained facilitators have the opportunity to hone their newfound peacemaking skills by participating as junior facilitators in some youth trainings.  As graduates of the facilitation-training program, they become consultants for the Peacemaker Corps and are compensated for each youth training session they conduct.  Our goal is to create a way for those persons on welfare, unemployment or out of a job to earn extra money while helping themselves and their community.

To locate interested parties we have formed alliances with organizations such as Jim Brown’s Amer-I-Can/Unity One, Parents of Watts, Chrysalis Homeless Center, Department of Labor Faithbased and Neighborhood Partnership, Younglife Urban and various other organizations and agencies to find adults who are eager to be trained and help the Association accomplish its mission of empowering the young through the art of making peace.

With our recent alliance with the Franklin/Covey business we are also expanding our offering to train Volunteers at Community Based Organizations who focus on mentoring youths; such as Big Brother Big Sisters, Boys and Girls Club, Boy and Girl Scouts, and Government Agencies who need to train volunteers such as; Peace Corps, Vista and AmeriCorps, and the Fatherhood project at HHS.

International:
Since the Peacemaker curriculum is transferable across regions, countries, cultures and religions, the Peacemaker Corps Association mission can be brought ANYWHERE in the world. We can use the United Nations NGO status to be our bully pulpit and marketing megaphone to reach other NGO organizations who deal with mentoring and official agencies of the United Nations to market our training product.  To further that goal, the Peacemaker Corps has formed and will continue to form alliances with international organizations to recruit trainers from the local region to educate Facilitators who can train youths to be peacemakers around the world. These organizations, such as various departments at USAID, Small Kindness an NGO located in Bosnia, or Free Tunisia, the group that began their Peaceful revolution, will utilize our curriculum to educate and empower youth worldwide.