5/7/07
The Community Challenge announces its free Spring 2007 Civic Engagement
Training Series

Flint, MI (May 7, 2007) --  The Community Challenge believes in building the capacity of the community to develop solutions to its most significant challenges.  To this end, the Community Challenge announces the Spring 2007 Civic Engagement Training Series. 

The purpose of this training series is to expose local residents to nationally recognized civic engagement tools that have made a positive difference in other communities.  Our goal is to train local facilitators who will then use their newly acquired skills to promote constructive change here in our community.  People who attend one or more of these workshops can expect to acquire skills that will allow them to facilitate group discussions about important community issues and then move the groups to take action to address these issues.

A Community Challenge Engagement Toolkit has also been compiled to provide information on how to implement a range of civic engagement processes that may be applied to small or large groups and everything in between. While each tool has its own advantages and limitations, a number of these tools have proven useful for equipping citizens;
            • for assisting formal leaders in participating/navigating local community processes          
            • for engaging youth;
            • for facilitating catalytic conversation about vision, values and actionable steps for this
              community

The Community Challenge is pleased to offer comprehensive training in several of the tools.

All sessions are free and open to the public. 
To register, please visit www.thecommunitychallenge.org
or call 810-238-5468 Ext. 3.

Contact Information:
Tracy Blackwell – Community Challenge / 810-449-0472 / comchallenge@flintclub.com

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