SOCIAL CAPITAL BUILDERS
FAQS
Social capital definitions vary depending on who you ask. At Social Capital Builders, we define social capital as the value of an individual’s connections to people, institutions, and organizations.
We do both! We have a train the trainer program for both our social capital foundations and our anti-violence curricula. We also work with programs where we train students directly, but these are shorter programs up to six weeks maximum. For longer programs, we recommend one of our tried-and-true train the trainer options.
Our Foundations of Social Capital Literacy (FISCL) curriculum includes up to 80 hours of instruction and additional social capital development projects to be completed by the students. When you purchase a curriculum license, you get 12 hours of training from the Social Capital Builders team. If needed, we can help you shorten the curriculum to fit your program structure.
Opportunities Up, Violence Down, our anti-violence curriculum, has seven modules with a total of 38 hours of instructional time and seven social capital development projects. It can also be shortened as needed.
No, at this time, My Opportunity Hub (MyOH) is only available to students who are enrolled in or completed one of our social capital programs.
Social capital helps job seekers access opportunities such as work experience and occupational skills training through the value of connections. Connections can also provide key, relevant information to WIOA program participants on topics like financial literacy and labor market information.
Our virtual course, Workforce and Summer Job Success, is available for students year-round. The course teaches work readiness skills with a social capital framework. The course is self-paced and takes about 15 hours to complete.
Yes, all of our programs are evidence-based. We use research from a variety of disciplines including sociology, psychology, education, and economics to inform each course, training, and lesson we create. We also conduct internal research and modify programs based on data.
Outcomes of our social capital training programs include an increased number of interactions with positive adult role models, increased knowledge of job openings and other opportunities, and increased belief in the efficacy of relationships with supportive adults. These outcomes lead to our program graduates obtaining more industry credentials, increasing their work experience, and gaining academic preparedness. See some of our successes outlined in our most recent case studies.
Talk to your child’s school leaders or after-school program about bringing Social Capital Builders to their students. Share the MyOH demo video with them and with your friends and family.
Students who lack support from a traditional family stand to benefit greatly from social capital. Our social capital training includes social network analysis activity to help all youth see that they have supportive adults in their life whether that be a teacher, neighbor, or even a judge. Social capital development activities give youth concrete skills to build and nurture a non-familial support system for themselves.
The FISCL curriculum costs $12,500. This includes a 1-year curriculum license, 20 student workbooks, 12 hours of staff training, facilitator slides for each lesson, and monthly coaching during your program. Additional workbooks and training are available for an additional cost. Click here to contact us for more information.
Our anti-violence curriculum, Opportunities Up, Violence Down, costs $9,500 for the same package. However, this curriculum is shorter and therefore only requires 10 hours of staff training. Learn more here.
Students are assessed before, during, and after the training program to ensure that they are progressing. We train staff on how to conduct interventions as needed based on assessments embedded in our curricula.
We use a system developed by our Chief Technology Officer that scans all communication on the My Opportunity Hub (MyOH) platform for inappropriate and unsafe language. All program administrators will have admin access to the platform so that they can also manually monitor the activity and communication of all their students.
If you are interested in working for Social Capital Builders to train youth and adults all over the country, please send your resume and cover letter to ed@socialcapitalbuilders.com. All are encouraged to apply!
Our curriculum is designed to be used by anyone with clear facilitator directions and accompanying Google Slides provided. That’s part of why you cannot buy the curriculum without receiving training directly from us on how to implement it. We want to make social capital literacy accessible to everyone.
Our social capital programs can easily be modified for students with special needs and learning disabilities. Examples of accommodations include leading youth in their social capital development projects by going with them to interview key stakeholders in their lives and prompting them during the interviews as needed. You can also provide additional sentence frames for students to use when reaching out and responding to their social capital connections via email and text.