Sacramento Professional Facilitators
(530) 677-1468

Community Development Intensive

• Old Sacramento, CA
• TBD

For over 35 years, the Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA) has been implementing its "grass-roots" process in communities around the world, resulting in long-term, locally motivated change. We have discovered that the key to community development lies in people working together to meet the changing social and economic needs of the community. The Community Development Intensive is a six-day workshop which establishes the context of community development as a whole-system change.

Sacramento Professional Facilitators are looking for a city, community or neighborhood that would like to involve business and residents in creating their strategic plan during this course. Facilitators will be provided to lead stakeholder and planning sessions for up to 350 local participants. Six training slots will be allocated to local participants as well so that they will be able to lead the plan implementation. If you are interested in having citizen participation in designing a strategic direction for your community, please contact Bill Davis at (916) 806-6407, or Heidi Kolbe (916) 442-0371.

Who Should Take the Course?
Community agencies, community development groups, community planners, community economic advisers, community relations officers, concerned citizens, environmentalists, private consultants, private business people.

Learn To:

• • Ensure grass roots participation.
• • Motivate groups to action.
• • Develop a grass roots vision.
• • Analyze the obstacles and create innovative strategies.
• • Convert plans into visible, do-able projects.
• • Build supportive relationships.
• • Sustain cross-sectorial collaboration.

Benefits:

• • Residents feel a sense of ownership and responsibility for their community.
• • Plan your project with maximum support and involvement of stakeholders.
• • Keep a Community Development project moving so people don't falter after a good beginning.

Prerequisite: Group Facilitation Methods

• Cost: $1,995

For registration and further information, please contact Marlene Lockwood, registrar at Sacramento Professional Facilitators:

• 1129 Firehouse Alley, Old Sacramento, CA 95814
• (530) 677-1468, phone/fax
• www.topspf.org
• registrar@topspf.org