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Community Development Academy
Stephen
Jeanetta
Community Development Academy Coordinator
229 Gentry Hall
Columbia, MO 65211
(573) 884-3018, (573) 882-5127 fax
The Community Development Academy includes a series of three courses:
- Course 1—Building Communities from the Grassroots
- Course 2—Empowering Communities for the Future
- Course 3—Creating Capacity for Dynamic Communities
Each course is an intensive, experiential, five-day program (for noncredit or for three hours undergraduate or graduate credit), held in a retreat setting, which explores ideas and develops practical skills for effectively involving and empowering local citizens and leaders in community-based efforts. The courses combine leading edge thinking with practical application to enhance the capacity of people to work effectively with a broad range of community issues. Each issue requires some form of decision-making process and implementation in the community arena beyond the individual, the family, or business firm. This professional development experience provides a conceptual base and skills for successfully bringing people (often with diverse views and opinions) together around common issues, helping them learn how to deal collectively with their issues of concern, and giving purposeful direction to their own futures.
The Community Development Academy courses are actively marketed to people working in not-for-profit organizations, urban/rural development, regional planning councils, extension and outreach programs, utilities, telephone and electric cooperatives, chambers of commerce, local, state, and federal government, community art/cultural affairs agencies, community betterment and main street programs, neighborhood associations, churches, and local health, social services, and youth development agencies.
Format & Time Required:
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Five day format for each of the three courses.
North
Central Regional Center for Rural Development
Iowa State University
107 Curtiss Hall
Ames, IA 50011-1050
(515) 294-8321, (515) 294-3180 fax
For questions, comments or concerns about the NCRCRD Web site, contact
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Last updated August 31, 2004.