Training: Community Development Training this September with MU Extension!

The Community Development Academy is an intensive, experiential, five-day course offered by the University of Missouri Extension Community Development Program. Our three courses combine leading edge thinking with practical applications. We enhance the capacity of people to work effectively with a broad range of community issues. The Community Development Academy provides a conceptual base and develops the skills necessary to successfully bring people (often with diverse views and opinions) together around common issues. Course participants learn how to deal collectively with their issues of concern and give purposeful direction to their own futures.

The Academy

• Offers a state-of-the-art, three-course, community-based development curriculum
• Utilizes interactive, hands-on learning experiences
• Establishes a valuable resource network for those working in communities 
• Shares methods for involving people at the local level of a community and/or neighborhood
• Develops the knowledge and skills necessary for empowering people to build their own futures
• Provides a forum for learning and sharing with a diversity of people

The Academy is designed for those 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 (housing programs and departments)
• Local health, social services, and youth development agencies
• Churches and faith-based organizations

Through this dynamic, results-oriented curriculum, learn how to:

• Use the tools needed to sustain communities
• Focus on capacities of communities/neighborhoods
• Promote responsibility and involvement of the entire community
• Develop a holistic community focus
• Harness the community’s expertise to determine needs, vision and actions

Join Community Development Academy, September 26-30, 2016, put on by MU Extension’s Community Development Program: these intensive, hands-on, 5-day courses enhance your ability to work effectively with a wide array of community issues. Take for professional development (CEUs), 3 hours undergraduate credit, graduate credit, or non-credit. Graduate students can work toward a Certificate in Community Process. CDA Course 1: Building Communities from the Grassroots (7341/4341) & Course 3: Creating Capacity for Dynamic Communities (7343/4343) held at The Elms Resort and Spa in Excelsior Springs, MO. Registration is now available at http://muconf.missouri.edu/commdevelopmentacademy/