Building Health Communities: Client Leaders for Justice
2011 Client Impact Leadership II
July 12-13, 2011 | Baltimore, MD
Registration will be available on-site.
Join us at Client Impact Leadership II – Building Healthy Communities: Client Leaders for Justice for an exploration of personal leadership, community assessment and community engagement that will give you the tools to expand partnerships, resources, and capacity in your community. This conference is intended to help participants be more community based in their leadership, organizations, projects and programmatic activities.
Building Healthy Communities will consist of two and one-half days of training connecting values-centered leadership to the skills you need to understand and engage your community. Using large group workshops and small group exercises, participants will learn to identify the assets they bring as leaders.
Healthy communities need affordable health care, safe and affordable housing, clean non-toxic environments and strong education and training opportunities. The needs are often overwhelming while resources are limited. Using health care as an example, participants will learn proven strategies to identify and prioritize issues important to their communities; identify community assets and resources; and collaborate within their boards/organizations as well as with partner organizations to turn problems into solutions.
Low-income communities around the nation are stretched and challenged during this worst recession since the Depression. Our communities also have significant strengths and assets waiting to be called into full service and partnership in the fight for justice. Social and economic justice cannot be successfully achieved without the full partnership of low-income leaders. Join us to continue building that partnership.
Who Should Attend? Building Healthy Communities: Client Leaders for Justice is open to all leaders committed to community engagement and client leadership. The conference is specifically designed for clients, client advocates, client board members and leaders in the low- and no-income communities who are committed to partnering with community organizations, legal aid and public defender programs to advance equal justice. Lay advocates and attorneys working closely with client advocates as well as attorney board members and executive leaders are encouraged to attend. Legal services, public defender and other community-based programs are encouraged to send teams of participants.
Participants are encouraged to attend as teams from their programs, states or regions.
Programs should strongly consider including at least one paralegal, attorney board member, executive leader or lay advocate in the team of client leaders.
Team participation increases the likelihood that leadership initiatives will advance and leadership skills will be reinforced when participants return to their community and program.
Learning Objectives and Leadership Competencies
NLADA Seven Core Leadership Competencies
An Effective Leader for Justice:
- Builds and Sustains Relationships, Collaborations and Community Partnerships
- Maximizes Impact for Communicating Effectively to Different Audiences
- Engages Issues of Diversity, Power and Difference
- Understands the Importance of Self-Awareness and Personal Effectiveness
- Develops and Inspires a Shared Vision
- Creates and Fosters an Environment Conducive to Leadership Development
- Thinks Strategically About Challenges and Opportunities
The learning outcomes are:
- Understand values centered leadership and clarify personal values
- Understand what an effective advocate does
- Discuss and understand asset based community development
- Identify and define issues important to your community
- Describe the process of moving from problem identification to proposing solutions
- Describe the key principles of effective collaboration
- Describe key principles of effective communication
- Identify community stakeholders, assets and resources
- Develop a draft action plan for engaging a community-defined issue
The training agenda will continue to be updated as speakers are confirmed. Please check www.nlada.org for updates.
Featured Trainers
Makani Themba-Nixon, Lead Facilitator
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