ATWOOD Community Development Workshop

CAPACITY BUILDING & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
Professional Development Training Series (Part 3)
$450.00 Per Person | 4 Hours

Learn how our signature Community Involvement Growth Strategy (CIGS) Model and socio-economic conditions cards create economic development solutions for local communities.

You will receive:

• 1 Community On Demand  Card Deck*
• 1 Community On Demand Skills Assessment Worksheet (Single Player)
• 1 Community On Demand Skills Assessment Worksheet (Team Player)
• 1 Community On Demand Game Board*
• 1 Money Guide for Young Entrepreneurs Activity Workbook
• 1 Money Guide for Young Entrepreneurs Activity Worksheet Toolkit
• 1 Money Guide for Young Entrepreneurs Online Course (8 Lessons)
• 8 Money Guide for Young Entrepreneurs Lesson Plans
• Community Involvement Growth Strategy (CIGS) Model Planning Toolkit

You will learn how to use our signature Community Involvement Growth Strategy (CIGS) Model as a learning tool to conduct a community assessment using three priority stages:

Priority Stage 1. Assessment

• Gain an understanding of all the major potential sources of positive and negative socio-economic conditions and environmental concerns
• Look at the routes of exposure to a particular socio-economic condition,
• Estimate cumulative impact
• Understand sensitivities or vulnerabilities of the affected population.
• Develop a qualitative comparison

Priority Stage 2. Implementation

• Conduct a feasibility study
• Document interest and commitment of key stakeholders to affect a particular change,
• Determine the potential to leverage local efforts and new sources of funding,
• Estimate and project the momentum to be gained through the completion of a work-based learning project
• Incorporate the relevant resources from the Local Contributor Network and other potential risk reduction activities to successfully implement an impact solution

Priority Stage 3. Measurement & Evaluation

• Use Community On Demand skills assessment tools and other training materials to track and evaluate the changes (before and after results) of your environmental health status and skills development
• Create presentation models to effectively and clearly communicate how you defined the nature and extent of the problems in your community
• Determine what the biggest/most serious problems in your community are
• Create a compilation of your findings to creatively publicize the biggest or most serious problems in your community (special events, workshops, fairs, cooking demos, etc.)
• Conclude if your efforts and impact solutions were successful and what your next steps should be to sustain and build upon them

Deliverables

• Greater equity of access to learning and employment opportunities
• Learning ecosystem more coordinated (i.e. increased numbers of co-designed and partnered skills development activities, work-based experiences, resource allocations and real world leadership, critical thinking, problem-solving and team-building opportunities)
• Resources for learning programs increasingly optimized (i.e. increased number of funding and resources)
• Education, workforce, and other policies and programs considering equity, game-based learning, and digital micro-credentialing platforms
• Increased use of data to inform how to allocate resources to support innovative youth programs like Community On Demand
• Strong coordination within local learning ecosystems
• Stable funding for local Community On Demand initiative and learning ecosystems
• Learning ecosystem uses data as a strategic tool to optimize impact of programs and resources

*Items will be shipped separately