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Course 1
Building Communities From the Grassroots
September 22-26, 2008
Excelsior Springs, MO
March 23-27, 2009
Excelsior Springs, MO
Course One Includes:
- Community-based Development Principles and Concepts
- Complexity and Polarization of Communities
- Group Process, Group Dynamics, Team Building
- Dealing with Differences
- Accurately Assessing the Community
- Practicing Community Inclusion
- The Action Planning Process
- Evaluation and Monitoring
- Developing Community Indicators and Measuring Impact
- Developing Local Leadership
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Course 2
Empowering Communities For The Future
September 22-26, 2008
Excelsior Springs, MO
Course Two Includes:
- Keys to Sustaining the Future of Communities
- Grounding Development in Community
- Understanding the Local Economy and Economic Development
- Role of Local Government in the Local Economy
- Participatory Action Research
- Discrimination and Community Development Programming
- Working Together: Networks, Partnerships, Coalitions and Collaboration
- Building Effective Community Organizations
- Governance and Civil Society
- The Environment and Sustaining the Future of Communities
Course 1 is a prerequisite for Course 2 or instructor's permission.
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Course 3
Creating Capacity For Dynamic Communities
March 23-27, 2009
Excelsior Springs, MO
Course Three Includes:
- Change, Ethics and Sustainability
- Preparing Communities for Effective Organizing
- Small Group Processes
- Whole Systems Processes for Development and Change
- Getting Unpoor: More Than Tinkering at the Edges
- Community Conflict Intervention
- Community Development in Perspective
- Citizen Power, Influence, Authority, and Participation
Courses 1 is a prerequisites for Course 3 or instructor's permission.
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Wednesday Afternoon Community Development in Practice Concurrent Workshops
Each offering of CDA includes a set of concurrent workshops on Wednesday afternoons presented by current or past CDA participants. This is a unique way to learn about the community development practices in which CDA participants are engaged.
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Click below for more information on each course.
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