Helpful Documents

• Notes from our facilitator conference calls:


1. 3/13/2012 - Engagement After The Mothers Circle; Transforming Mothers Circle Participants Into Community Leaders
2. 8/3/2011- Utilizing Community Resources in Your Mothers Circle Program
3. 4/12/11- Frequently Asked Questions from Facilitators and Participants
4. 1/27/11 - Information Sessions and Course Retention
5. 10/13/10 - Supplementary Curriculum Activites; Creative Recruitment: Reaching Mothers Circle Participants Where They Are
6. 2/24/10 - Community Contexts; Unsupportive Fathers
7. 9/9/09 - Recruitment
8. 3/11/09 - Reducing Costs
9. 11/24/08 - Curriculum Additions; What Make Jewish Values Jewish
10. 5/18/08 - Information Sessions as Recruitment Tools; Assigned Readings; Reaching Out to Participants' Jewish Partners
11. 2/12/08 - How to Make the Most of Experiential Learning Opportunities within the Curriculum; Beyond the Curriculum: Exchange of Additional Experiential Learning Ideas
12. 11/15/07 - Mothers Circle Conference Overivew; Facilitation Tips: How to Ensure an Open, Comfortable, and Non-Judgmental Space for all Participants
13. 9/5/07 - Session 1: What has Worked Well for you in the Opening Session; High Holidays and Back-to-School Recruitment Tips
14. 6/6/07 - Summertime with The Mothers Circle: Making the Best of a Slow Season; Reaching Outside the Box: New Recruitment Strategies
15. 3/22/07 - Recruitment and Retention; Timing of the Course in the Year
16. 1/17/07 - Growing Beyond The Mothers Circle to Engage Whole Families; Alumni Events

• Recruitment
  
  1. The Mothers Circle FAQ
  2. Recruitment Tips
  3. Sample Recruitment Letter from a Mohel
     
     
• Press Releases
  
  1. Sample Press Release 1
  2. Sample Press Release 2
  3. Sample Press Release 3
     
     
• Publicity
  
  1. Sample Ad
  2. Fish Out of Water Poster
  3. Pre-School and Synagogue Flyer
     
     
• Blank Templates
These documents are blank Mothers Circle poster templates you can adapt for your specific community. They are available in both PDF and Word formats with options for tear-off strips.


1. Mothers Circle Blank Poster PDF
2. Mothers Circle Blank Poster PDF with Tear Strips
3. Mothers Circle Blank Poster Word
4. Mothers Circle Blank Poster Word with Tear Strips
   
   
• Announcements
If you’re planning to announce your Mothers Circle course, here is some sample language you can adapt.


1. Email Announcement
2. Pulpit Announcement 1
3. Pulpit Announcement 2
   
   
• Updated Reading Assignments
Reading assignments for Olitzky and Golin's "How to Raise Jewish Children... Even When You're Not Jewish Yourself" and Diamant and Kushner's "How to Raise a Jewish Child: A Practical Handbook for Family Life."


1. Reading Assignments
   
   
• Evaluation Forms
To be handed out the first and last day of the course.


1. Pre-Program Evaluation Form
2. Post-Program Evaluation Form
   
   
Please send copies of all completed forms to JOI at your earliest convenience, as they are central for us to continue to receive the national funding that allows the materials to be provided for free and provide us with the feedback we need to improve our resources for facilitators. Questionnaires can be mailed, faxed, or scanned and emailed to the contact below, whichever is easiest:

Marley Weiner
Jewish Outreach Institute
1270 Broadway, Suite 609
New York, NY 10001
Tel: (212) 760-1440
Fax: (212) 760-1569
mweiner@JOI.org