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POST-PONED FOR THE FALL OF 2010

Mobilizing the gifts of people //organizations // and communities

This interactive training brings the historical background, the practical application and the transformational power of ABCD. In many communities, social service organizations, churches, and government agencies attempt community transformation by asking what is wrong in the community, what has to be fixed. ABCD approaches community transformation by asking what is right, what is working and how can everyone contribute their skills and passion to make life better! We invite you to join us for an engaging and interactive event where we will learn how to look at our community as places of great assets.

Southeast Regional ABCD into Action Training February 10-11, 2010 Miami, Florida Cost: $125 per person includes breakfast, lunch and snacks for the two days. [ Limited Scholarships Available for Non-Profits/Churches to apply for a scholarship send email to Delia Caderno at deliap4ct@gmail.com (emails only no phone calls). ]

ABCD in Action is a learning experience that familiarizes participants with the basic concepts of Asset Based Community Development, teaches tools to put them into practice and provides participants opportunities to develop their skills in using these tools to improve programs or ministries!

Participants in the Training will:

• Learn the fundamental principles and practices of taking ABCD community building and organizing into action
• Learn methods to tap into the unique power of individuals with gifts and their voluntary associations
• Practice how to build more community engagement and involvement
• Learn approaches to sustain community organizations and leaders
• Gain ideas for building successful agency resident/client partnerships
• Find and mobilize their organizational assets and their community assets to work together for stronger projects, programs and ministries
• Learn practical ways of social network organizing to develop more connected local communities where relationships among people grow
• Work on real life situations and develop action plans to take home

Who Should Attend?

• People seeking to develop more connected, inclusive, engaged local communities
• Community organizing, community builders and resident services staff from nonprofit t organizations or government
• Pastors and church leaders who have desire to fully engage “with” their communities.
• Management and resource development staff from nonprofit t organizations
• Community association members and leaders
• People from local government and non profit agencies (schools, libraries, universities, hospitals, social service agencies) who want to develop new, creative, more powerful ways of partnering with their communities
• Human services workers seeking to support the fuller inclusion of people they support

“The deepest dream of ABCD is that more and more people can come to see truly that ‘there is no one we don’t need’ and that a community without a place for everyone really has a place for no one.” —Mike Green

Workshop Leaders

Mike Green // www.abcdtraining.org // offers ABCD training and consultation to organizations to engage their local communities as partners for collective action. He is affiliated with Jody Kretzmann’s and John McKnight’s Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) Institute. Mike teaches and consults throughout North America and internationally. Delia Caderno // www.p4ct.org // is the founder and Executive Director of Partnership for Community Transformation (P4CT), an intermediary Christian Community Development organization. P4CT’s mission is to bring about holistic transformation in local communities utilizing the ABCD Framework. Delia is a community development coach and trainer.

CCDA 2009

OCTOBER 21st - 25th, 2009
CINCINNATI, OHIO

CCDA is looking for artists to create work to be displayed at the upcoming Cincinnati conference around the theme, “Pursuing Kingdom Priorities,” from Matthew 6:10, “your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” If your interest is piqued by this opportunity, keep reading…

Conference Hotel:

Conference Facility:

http://www.ccda.org/conference

Founded in October of 2008, the Partnership for Community Transformation’s vision is to see local communities use the assets already in the community to bring about social, cultural and spiritual transformation.  Our mission is to form partnerships with churches and faith based groups to encourage, teach, equip and coach them in the Asset Based Community Development framework.

 We hope this site can inspire, and provide resources for you to transform your community. Contact us to partner with you to discover, connect and mobilize the assets in your neighborhood.