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The Community Capacity Building initiative is a comprehensive education and
training program designed to assist groups interested in planning for regional
economic development. The training modules are useful to
development organizations facing capacity challenges.
The program has 65 trained facilitators and offers
14 workshops including leadership and motivation, legal issues, board
governance, meeting management, strategic planning, communications, regional
economic development, community development, public participation, youth and
volunteerism, new director orientation, group dynamics and alternative dispute
resolution.
Workshops average seven hours, although some, such as the strategic planning and
legal issues workshops, are longer.
The
Province
has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the College of the North
Atlantic to train and certify program facilitators and offer continuing
education certification.
Resource Materials
The Capacity Building initiative has created a Directors Handbook and a
Facilitators Handbook and a website.
The Facilitators Handbook consists of fourteen modules complete with
resources for workshop delivery. The modules include Regional Economic
Development, Strategic Planning, Community Development: Principles and
Practices, Board Governance, Public Participation, Alternative Dispute
Resolution, Meeting Management, Group Dynamics and Leadership and Motivation.
The Director’s Handbook contains six of these modules as a resource to
new Directors and participants in community development.
The Capacity Building website
http://www.cedresources.ca provides training materials including PowerPoint
presentations, course outlines, break-out exercises and evaluation forms for
workshops.
To Find Out More
For information and assistance, contact:
Gillian Skinner, Planning and Development Analyst
Dept. of Innovation, Trade and Rural Development
Government of Newfoundland and Labrador
P.O. Box 8700 St. John’s, NF A1C 4J6
Phone: 709-729-7451 Fax: 709-729-7087
E-mail:
GSKINNER@gov.nl.ca
OR contact the
INTRD office nearest you.
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