Mobilizing Community Caring

Posted by on September 28, 2009

Kenyon Community Building presents:
Mobilizing Community Caring
Integrating your organization into your community using Asset Based Community Building

October 22 & 23, 2009
9 am to 4 pm
Ralph Scott Lifeservices
408 West Trade Street
Burlington, NC 27217

Hosted by Ralph Scott Lifeservices, a non-profit organization providing quality, residential services and community support to people with developmental disabilities.

Mobilize your gifts and assets to build your community

Workshop facilitator, Gail Kenyon is a social worker and educator who provides workshops, consultation and support on Asset Based Community Building in NC, and internationally. See http://www.kenyoncommunitybuilding.com

Information and registration

Who should attend?
social workers
community organizers
agency staff
directors
self advocates

For more information contact Gail Kenyon at 919.601.2885 or email kenyon.communitybuilding@gmail.com

To register:
Send your check for $145. to Kenyon Community Building, 2803 O’Berry St., Raleigh, NC, 27607 along with your name, address, phone number, email address, organizational affiliation, and any dietary or other special needs.

Registration includes lunches and free parking in a fully accessible facility. Ask about reduced rates for students and self advocates.

Asset based community building is an approach to community development that utilizes three principles:
# 1: Communities are built on their strengths, assets or gifts, not on their needs or deficits.
# 2: Communities are built from the inside out .
# 3: The process of community building is driven by the relationships and connections between individuals, groups, associations and organizations.

You can utilize these principles to mobilize the caring in your community and integrate your agency, association or a self advocate into that community. Asset based community building is a perspective that helps you discover the hidden treasures in your midst and use them to realize dreams.