La Roche College invites college graduates and working professionals to participate in an innovative opportunity, "Global Development and Humanitarian Aid Training" offering a starting point for an exciting career in aid and development. Partnering with RedR UK, one of the world’s premier training organizations, La Roche’s program will develop these core competencies:

• Understanding human rights and humanitarian contexts, principles and law
• Working collaboratively to achieve results
• Ensuring safety and security under conditions of pressure and change

The Training Program offers:

• Two-week online pre- and post-trainings, providing initial assessment, orientation to key concepts and ideas, and program follow-up
• Two-week intensive on-campus training, using simulations and other applied skills training, field visits to humanitarian aid organizations, RedR UK training, and guest lectures by experienced professionals
• Field experience opportunities and college/graduate credits available
• An exciting curriculum

• Two weeks room and board
• A global student body
• An overview of emergencies and humanitarian crises
• Concepts of globalization and development and connecting emergency aid to development
• How to enter the humanitarian field
• Understanding humanitarian guidelines and international agreements
• Simulations and collaborative work
• Connections to field experience after completion
• Trip to Washington, D.C., visiting USAID and other important institutions in the humanitarian field
• Apple iPad with all class readings and important documents for the field - including weblinks and apps for collaboration
• Evening and weekend activities and outings
• Undergraduate or graduate credit available