In any working group or family group, we are finding ways to connect with the support resources we may need. Moving often with my young children, I learned early on how to network in my community to find the best schools, doctors, teams, neighborhoods.

While working with Literacy Volunteers of DACC, we provided a list of professional resources for our volunteers as they interacted with those they tutored.  The caring relationship of the tutor is the key to helping those in need to find the resources they may need to be better able to learn:  such as health care, employment, transportation, daycare.

In my experience working with El Paso Community College workforce programs, our department was based in a one stop shop building:  community college courses and counseling, workforce center, social services.  The concept allowed a client to walk from one office to the next and find the resources they may need for success.

Later in my business, I set up a Health Aide course that would recruit learners from agencies and the agencies could aggregate their skills to support the learners to successful completion. Unfortunately, most of the agencies were so short handed, they were unable to offer support to the learners.

PSA is designing a social learning construct that will enable all participants  to identify and use the resources they need for success.  Each of the participants can play a caring role in guiding others in finding and using those resources.

What do we call these caring group members that assist others in finding and using resources?  Here is a list of names that PSA brainstormed in 2010 .  Can you think of more names to describe the participants in a social learning construct?

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