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Developing Successful
Community Initiatives—
A Regional Workshop

Developing Successful Community Initiatives, component two of the Foundations of Practice: Community Development Core Competencies program, focuses on the ability to carry out community development processes to achieve measurable impacts. These process skills may be of value to all extension professionals, especially those new to community development work. These skills include:

	Principles of Community Development Practice
	Broad-based Participation and Bringing People to the Table
	Participatory Planning (includes visioning, assessment and analysis, and plan development)
	Implementation and Project Management
	Facilitation of Group Meetings
	Community Collaborations
	Evaluation (includes participatory evaluation, indicators and benchmarks, measuring impacts)

In the North Central region, these will be taught in a regional workshop November 1-3, 2006. The purpose of the workshop is to build the competencies of Extension staff. It also enables Extension professionals within the region to network with each other and learn about their programs. Participants in this workshop will be identified by the North Central Community Development program leaders.

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