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Field Representative Requirements

Children's Crisis Prevention Network, Inc.(CCPN) dba Dogs Against Drugs (DAD) 2008-2009

These are some of the things that are required for a position as a Field Representative:

· Must be over 21 years old
· Must not have a felony
· Must have a valid driver's license
· Must have proof of liability car insurance
· Must submit to a drug test
· Must have a High School education or GED plus one year of college
· Good physical condition, as the position requires bending, stooping, and lengthy periods of walking and standing.
· Must have Family Support, both financial and emotional, as it is a necessity for success to be a DAD Field Representative
· The work schedule will only be during the school year and school hours. Must have another source of income.
· We provided a 5 " X 10 "chain link kennel run and dog house with concrete blocks.
· Job starts off at $ 8.00 an hour; After probation period income will increase.
· Mileage compensation is currently at .50 cents; Travel compensation is currently at .12 cents

Please look at our website, www.childrens-crisis-prevention.org, to get more insight about what we do. If you are still interested, email us back, and we will send you an application. Or, you can print out the application below and mail or fax it to us.

Thank you for inquiring about job opportunities in our company.

Genie Hilton
Asst. Director

FAQ for Potential Dog Reps

Salary/benefits:

What activities are considered billable? Drive time? Phone calls? Dog training?
· Billable time is the actual, physical time spent signed in and working at a client site. We sign in and out at all campuses.
· Drive time is paid at a rate of twelve cents per mile this works out to over $6.08 per hour.
· Phone calls are not considered billable or paid time.
· Dog training done under the physical, direct, supervision of a trainer is considered training time, and paid at your normal, hourly wage.

Is there overtime pay for work over 20 hours?
· Overtime is never paid for 40 hours or less. Over 40 hours of hourly wage time would be a highly unusual situation.

Is there a maximum number of hrs. /wk?
· Given that school hours, at the very most, could be from 8 to 3:00, I expect 35 hours to be the very most a person could spend in a five-day week.
· Remember, though, that we work four days a week, not five.

Does the $50 kennel compensation cover food and vet bills?
· No. The $50 covers your time, trouble and energy in caring for the dog at your home.
· Food and vet bills are covered by the company either through paying a vet directly and providing the food for you, or your submitting an expense report for reimbursement of expenditures.

Insurance benefits?
· Accident, Liability, and Unemployment Insurance. No Health Insurance -- Yet.
· We have a 403b retirement account (the non-profit corporation version of a 401K) to which you may contribute up to 10% of your total wages.

Are there opportunities for pay increases?
· As soon as you are on your own& and working independently to serve your assigned schools, you receive a $0.50 per hour increase, raising you to $8.50 per hour.

Paid vacation time?
· As a part-time, partial-year position, there is no paid vacation time. Only full-time employees have any vacation time at least at this time.
· You do receive birthday pay, four hours worth of hourly wage for your birth date if you don't work; if you do work that day, you receive four additional hours worth of wages.

Paid sick leave?
· As a part-time, partial-year position, there is no paid sick leave. Only full-time employees have five sick days, at least at this time.

What is the average take home pay per month for a field rep? (including drive time hours)
· In checking one of our more conscientious Rep's records, her hourly (billable) gross varied from $356 to $790 a month during the past school year; her travel time gross varied from $129 to $171; her mileage compensation (nontaxable) varied from $260 to $469. Her kennel fee remained the same gross at $50 per month.

Do you take out any taxes? If not, do I file my insurance as a self-employed person?
· We take out and pay 100% of your Federal Withholding;
· We take out 50% of Social Security (FICA) and pay 100% of it.
· We take out 50% of Medicare taxes and pay 100% of it.
· You have employee status and receive the tax benefits of an employee.

Training:

How much training is in Athens?
· Approximately 2 days per average month. We try to keep you close to home.

Where is the field training with an established field rep?
· Generally within your service area (within 50 miles of your home)

How much personal study time is needed during the first 12 weeks?
· That is essentially up to the individual trainee; individuals can begin training with different amounts of knowledge about drugs, their physiological and psychological effects, social and legal issues.
· We have had employees who worked just for the money who did very little studying, and other employees who constantly continued expanding their knowledge and understanding of work-related issues.

Dog:

What do I do with the dog when I go on vacation?
· The dog will be boarded by another employee or here at the office while their handler is on vacation, even if it's just a weekend.

How much can the dog be inside?
· The dog may be inside confined in a travel carrier (provided by the company) if the temperature is below freezing.

How much socialization with my kids and my dogs?
· No socialization with your dogs; that's why we provide a 5 by 10 chain link kennel run and dog house.
· The dog may certainly socialize with your kids; although socializing with school children at work must remain the dog's primary contact with children. If it gets too much attention and playtime at home, it has no reason to go to work.

How much exercise daily does the dog need?
· Depending on the weather, 2 to 4 fifteen to twenty minute periods of retrieving. In hot weather, we cut it way back. If retrieval can be done in water, that is wonderful, the best exercise!

If I have a car accident, and the dog is injured, is the dog insured?
Insurance is so expensive as to be prohibitive. The dogs are not insured. We have had a dog injured in an accident, and the Rep simply took her to the vet.

Who takes the dog to the vet? Do you have a vet I must use?
· We prefer to have each Rep select a vet they know and trust. We then set up an account with that clinic to make it easier for the Rep. We can, of course, have routine vet work done here.

Job:

How many schools does one rep cover?
· It depends on the size of the schools. Anywhere from three to ten.
· We discourage trying to visit more that 2-3 school districts in a day.

Does a rep. cover elementary, jr. high, and high school?
· Each Rep will have a Primary and a Secondary Responsibility: Either Inspection or Education.
· The Rep with Education as their Primary Responsibility will generally focus on Elementary Education, but perform some inspection.
· The Rep with Inspection as their Primary Responsibility will be expected to be prepared to perform some education.
· Inspection is normally conducted at junior and senior high schools.

What is the curriculum? Who writes the curriculum? How is it initially presented to the administration of a school?
· The curriculum is original, interactive, research-based and developed by me in conjunction with several counseling and education professionals.
· The curriculum is based on two theoretical models of prevention: Risk/Protective Factors and Developmental Factors. Our intent is to enhance Protective or Resilience Factors and reduce Risk Factors for students while presenting information which is Developmentally appropriate.
· It is designed to be presented to a small group of students in their classroom; it is not an "activity" appropriate for an assembly.
· The Curriculum for Grades PK through 5 is designed to be delivered using the dog as a teaching tool.
· A copy of the Curriculum is provided for each district/campus.
· Each presentation is developmentally appropriate for each grade level. PK through 8 generally receives two presentations per year; 9 through 12 generally receives one.
· Although we are physically present in each classroom just twice each year, the curriculum has a self-reinforcing element: Each Presentation Packet contains a Teacher Presentation Evaluation form, a Lesson Reinforcement Activity Sheet, and for grades PK through 5, a Letter from their DAD Dog; older students receive a presentation evaluation form to fill out (and possibly use to ask for help).
· I will do all the training and schedule all presentations for Reps, as well as teaching appropriate and effective classroom management (and teacher management) skills.
· The above is generally the way the curriculum is presented to prospective clients.

What are the positives and negatives of being a field rep.?

Negatives:
· Hot Weather
· Dog Hair, dog spit
· Educators who don't care
· Teachers with poor classroom management skills
· Teachers who forget you're coming
· Paperwork/documentation
· Having a boss who expects you to turn in your calendar on time and then follow it.
· Having to wait for administrators
· The company can not possibly be paid enough for the difference we make
· (This extends to the employees, too)

Positives:

· One Rep's first choice is: making a difference in someone's life
· Personally rewarding
· Getting to be the nice guy& or a hero
· Knowing you are making a difference right now and for the future
· Getting to take children's problems seriously
· Showing children they have options
· Planting seeds for the older, know-it-all students
· Teaching the faculty to see what is right under their noses
· The job is fun!
· The different situations and people: a lot of variety
· Knowing that when a student is caught, you may be saving their life
· Knowing that often when a student's possessions are alerted on but nothing is found, that your dog may have gotten that child's attention enough to turn them around
· We are in the business of saving lives and futures
· Having a somewhat flexible schedule
· Being able to make my own schedule

Is there opportunity for advancement?
· Yes
· An area supervisor is needed for North Texas, but not until they are adequately trained
· Sales for experienced, qualified Rep in expansion of service area

How many hours of paperwork per week?
· For any Rep who completes their Daily paperwork on site before leaving a school building (plus you get paid for the time you are at school and this is service for them you are documenting); and keeps up with it as they go, there would probably be less than an hour of paperwork at home per week.
· For any Rep who is disorganized and procrastinates on completing Daily paperwork, there may be five or six hours of recalling and documenting activities.

Service Contract with the school:

Who obtains the contract?
· Generally the Company. We have expanded through referral, mostly. Sometimes it is me.
· If an experienced Rep wishes to get into marketing, we will provide information, materials, and pay a 5% commission for the life of the contract as long as the Rep is employed by the Company.

Is there contract maintenance involved during the school year?
· Each contract is somewhat different, specific to the size, needs and desires of the district and/or campus.
· Contract management focuses on planning, timing, scheduling, delivering and reviewing the appropriate amount and type of service; also making sure the contract hours are being utilized for maximum benefit of client and company.

Who renews the contract with the school?
· Normally, the Company handles this as a normal business activity prior to the end of the school year.

Does the school board have to approve the curriculum?
· It depends on the district and often it is the Safe and Drug Free Schools Coordinator's responsibility.

Company:

What are the reasons field reps leave the company?
· #1 Reason Moving - Relocation of spouse's job
· #2 Reason Money - They leave for a full-time job with health insurance.

How many reps do you have? Are you nationwide?
· We currently have two Reps who are scheduled to be active in schools this coming school year. We need three to four more.
· I began the company in Oklahoma, where it continues to thrive. We currently serve only North and East Texas from the Texas Organization, which is separate from Oklahoma.

Who pays the company; the school district or the individual school?
· Yes
· Service cost can be paid by:
· campus or district operating or grant funding,
· community or student groups

What other programs compete with Dogs Against Drugs?
· DARE Officers who do a series of lessons (many schools have both of us)
· Police Departments which provide drug dog services at little or no cost (There don't seem to be too many of these which are effective)
· Private companies which either do not provide our scope of services or have the developmental background and research base, or do not have gentle dogs trained on as many odors as ours.
· Companies which do nothing but drug dog searches.

How do the other programs of the Children's Drug Prevention work?
· The Challenge Program is still available, but was a 3-year child abuse prevention grant project; curriculum based support groups provided to schools at little cost.
· Dogs Against Drugs: the drug dog service
· Positive Alternatives Curriculum dog used as teaching tool
· The Children's Crisis Prevention Network is the non-profit corporation under which all programs are developed and services provided.

Does Barbara Pettycrew supervise all of the field reps?
· Barbara is the Director, Genie Hilton is Asst. Director.

What is the company structure?
· At the top: Executive Board of Directors
· Then: Director

· Then: Asst. Director
· Then: Remaining Employees
· In the event of a Grant Project, the Project Coordinator will directly supervise their own project workers, but will also report to the Director

Are there performance reviews?
· The first formal review is at the end of a trainee's first 12 weeks;
· The second formal (annual) review is in June at the end of each year of employment
· Employment contracts and raises are offered on the basis of past performance and these reviews

Application

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