Summer Guide 2015 The Community Building Institute, or CBI, is the training that helps provide the foundation for service projects that turn into sustained, community-supported programs. CBI is 6 steps based on the community-building framework, or as a model to undergird sustainable community development initiatives. CBI Training Series is six (6) web-based sessions, facilitated by experts in the field of community organizing. These session designs are for projects in different stages of development, from those that are in the beginning assessment stages, to those that are long-standing and seeking to evaluate the perceived impact of the work. CBI Training Series is meant to provide insight into the how s and why s of community-based initiative development. 1: 2: 3: 4: 5: 6: 7: Title Introduction to CBI and Community Assessment August 18 th 10 AM 11:30 AM Creating Community Awareness and Stakeholder Involvement August 25 th Building Community Advisory Groups September 1 st Campus Community Partner Development September 8 th Strategic Planning September 15 th Strategic Plan Implementation September 22 nd Evaluation for Everyday Use September 29 th Facilitator Erin Steuer: Board of Directors President Blue Mountain Clinic Andrea Vernon: Executive Director, UM Office for Civic Engagement Shannon Stober: Director of Programs, MT Conservation Corps Maura Jones: MTCC VISTA Alum Kathleen McCleskey: President, KM Consulting & Training LCDR LeeAnn Bruised Head: Executive Director of Missoula Urban Indian Health Center Susan Hay Patrick: CEO United Way of Missoula County Web conferenced training overview: The Community Building Institute presents online through a live, web-based presentation service. The technology provides opportunities for learners of all styles; live video feed, interactive participant communication features screen & file sharing, video, audio and chat, presentation space, and more. 1
CBI Training Series Descriptions Introduction to the Community Building Institute/Assessment This session provides the overview of the Community Building Institute, learning objectives and desired outcomes. Needs and resources are really two sides of the same coin. Without each other, they do not buy much! In order to get a comprehensive view of your community, it is important to look at both what you have and what you need. With these things understood, you can have a positive impact on the problem you wish to address. Understanding your community in this manner will also help your organization clarify where it would like to go and how to get there. Facilitator: Erin Steuer, Board of Directors President, Blue Mountain Clinic Creating Community Awareness and Stakeholder Involvement What constitutes a stakeholder group and why are stakeholders needed? How does an organization identify potential stakeholders and, once identified, how are they approached? These questions and more will be addressed during this session. The point is to increase a community s knowledge and awareness of community needs through education and outreach activities, providing the basis for a prospective stakeholder to buy-in. In addition to stakeholder mobilization, this session will touch on different kinds of community awareness activities, examples of events and engaging community members and stakeholders in those activities. Facilitator: Andrea Vernon, Executive Director, UM Office for Civic Engagement Building Community Advisory Groups This webinar will help you with the next few steps in the community building process creating an advisory group of stakeholders and learning how to facilitate their involvement. You will learn when and how to form an advisory group and the importance of a participatory approach to build a strong power base for change. The key to an effective advisory group is keeping everyone involved and on-task. You will come away from the webinar knowing the phases of advisory board development and accomplishing tasks within each phase. Creating a successful process for your project or initiative ensures a successful outcome! Facilitator: Shannon Stober, Director of Programs, Montana Conservation Corps Strategic Planning Every organization has a dream of what they want to accomplish. However, the most successful individuals -- and community organizations -- take that dream and find a way to make it happen. Strategic planning processes help community groups define their dream, set their goals, define ways to meet those goals, and finally develop practical ways to bring about the needed changes they seek. This session will explore different approaches to strategic planning. Facilitator: Kathleen McCleskey, President, KM Consulting & Training Strategic Plan Implementation Plans require action and in this field, action, is implementation. This session will explore ways of making that strategic plan become a reality, through different approaches to strategic plan implementation. Activities that fit into the strategic planning framework of volunteer generation, financial resource development and policy implementation will be touched on during this session. Facilitator: LCDR LeeAnn Bruised Head, Executive Director, Missoula Urban Indian Health Center Evaluation for Everyday Use Evaluation is a powerful strategy used to strengthen projects and programs and to assess their effectiveness and impact on the community. Evaluation encourages an atmosphere of participation, reflection, and learning. It helps improve programs and projects and demonstrates that investments of time and other resources achieve results. This webinar will help you understand evaluation as something we all do naturally every day and help you appreciate it as a transformative learning tool. You will come away from the webinar with some practical, user-friendly evaluation tools that apply immediately to your project, program or initiative. Facilitator: Susan Hay Patrick, CEO, United Way of Missoula County 2
Meet the CBI Facilitators Erin Steuer, M.A. Community Building Institute Training Series Erin moved to Missoula in 2002 to attend the University of Montana where her research focused on health policy, ethnography and social justice. She received her M.A. in Anthropology in 2008 and is currently working toward completion of her PhD. In 2008-09, Erin served a term as an AmeriCorps VISTA where she utilized her community based research skills to conduct a needs assessment for a Missoula non-profit. After serving with AmeriCorps, she held positions in non-profit fundraising, program development and evaluation, community assessment, and volunteer management. She is currently the Director of Programs and Communication for a statewide advocacy non-profit and also serves as the President of the Board of Directors for Blue Mountain Clinic in Missoula. Andrea Vernon, Ed.D Andrea Vernon is the Director of the Office for Civic Engagement at the University of Montana where she has served for the past eighteen years. She has worked with higher education service learning and AmeriCorps National Service programs for twenty-two years at the state and local levels. Through this work, Andrea is involved with teaching, researching, and administering programs that bridge higher education and the nonprofit sector. Andrea holds a B.A. and an M.A. in Sociology; and received her Doctorate in Education from the University of Montana in Educational Leadership, with a focus on higher education student services, service learning, and program administration. Shannon Stober, BA Shannon Stober has spent the past 13 years working within Montana s National Service community. She was a two-term Prevention Resource Center AmeriCorps VISTA and has worked as a staff member with the Governor s Office of Community Service, the Montana Campus Compact, and the Montana Conservation Corps. Shannon has delivered leadership development workshops to thousands of Montana students, service members, and professionals using an energetic and engaging approach honed through her service experiences. Her audiences include all of Montana s AmeriCorps and AmeriCorps VISTA programs, the Montana Campus Compact, the Office for Public Instruction s Career and Technical Service Organizations, Montana State University s Campus Corps and Spring Breaks-Away teams, the University of Montana s Griz-Lead and Global Leadership programs, Fort Lewis College s STEM Office, the Missoula Neighborhood Council, the Montana Center for International Visitors, and more. She truly believes that National Service is a cause and is continually grateful to be a member of the National Service community in Montana. Maura Jones, BA Maura Jones is a VISTA Alum with Montana Campus Compact, where she served two years of service as first a VISTA member and then, as a VISTA Leader. As VISTA Leader she provided support for the MTCC AmeriCorps VISTA members serving with communities across Montana and Wyoming. Maura is a two-term National Service alumna having served with the Washington Reading Corps as an AmeriCorps member, and with YWCA Missoula as an AmeriCorps VISTA. She has current experience in engaging campus partnerships and building community partners to meet the needs of the people. She is actively involved with the Janet Rankin Peace Center, the YWCA, the Flagship Program, and other community events which support youth development. She has earned a Bachelor of Psychology from University of Montana and has future plans of going to graduate school after experiencing the secular world and finding what her true passion for serving the community is in the future. 3
Kathleen McCleskey, MHR Community Building Institute Training Series Kathleen McCleskey has worked with various nonprofits such as Keep Denton Beautiful, Friends of National Broadcasting, and Communities in Schools, the Christi Center (a grief support group), Texas Parks and Wildlife, statewide victim assistance network, and other groups to develop or review their mission, vision, priorities, and guiding principles for their strategic plans. She also conducts classes in strategic planning. Kathleen also conducts classes in volunteer management for the University of North Texas. She has worked with AmeriCorps VISTA for over 25 years. LCDR LeeAnn Bruised Head, MPH LCDR LeeAnn Bruised Head is a Commissioned Corps Officer with US Public Health Service Indian Health Service. She brings 18 years of vast experience and contacts from Tribal Communities, IHS, and State & National Organizations in the arena of Public Health. Her mission is to provide guidance, leadership and vision to meet the mission of Missoula Urban Indian Health Center in managing and developing the organization through collaboration and innovation. LCDR Bruised Head received her undergraduate degree from University of Montana 1991 and her Master of Public Health Degree from University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center 1994. She is an enrolled member of the Crow Tribe and Descendent of First Nations People of the Blood Tribe from Southern Alberta, Canada. As a Crow Tribal member, her clan is Big Lodge and a Grandchild of the Whistling Water Clan. LeeAnn is a fluent Speaker of the Crow Language and participates in cultural activities and ceremonies with her daughters. She is also very active and enjoys Running, Reading, Traditional Dancing, Hiking and spending time at the Farmers Market. Susan Hay Patrick, BA Susan Hay Patrick has been a nonprofit leader for 35 years. Before joining United Way of Missoula County in 2006 as chief executive officer, her experience included operating her own independent consulting business, specializing in nonprofits; serving as executive director of a national foundation; and as deputy director of Feeding America, one of the nation s ten largest charities. Susan has served as a board member and/or president of local and national boards of directors since the mid-1980s. She has received local and national awards for leadership and community service. Susan began her career as a reporter for a daily newspaper in Connecticut and as a corporate communications writer for a Fortune 500 company. She has served as a board member and/or president of local and national boards of directors since the mid- 1980s. She co-founded and currently chairs Let s Move! Missoula: Missoula County s childhood obesityprevention initiative; Reaching Home: Missoula s 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness; and the Western Montana Suicide Prevention Initiative. She is also a Montana Ambassador, appointed by the governor to serve as an ambassador for economic development in Montana. Susan conducts frequent trainings for nonprofit organizations in board development, fundraising, strategic planning, leadership, and other aspects of nonprofit management and governance. She writes and speaks frequently on hunger, poverty and nonprofit governance issues. A Connecticut native, Susan is a graduate of Dana Hall School in Wellesley, Mass., where she later served on and chaired the board of trustees. She graduated from Castleton (Vermont) State College magna cum laude in 1977. 4
Web conferenced training overview: The Community Building Institute presents online through a live, web-based presentation service. The technology provides opportunities for learners of all styles; live video feed, interactive participant communication features video, audio and chat, screen sharing, live question answers, polls, and more. CBI Series recap information sent out via email immediately following each presentation. MTCC utilizes Drop Box for all recordings. Set up a Drop Box profile at www.dropbox.com to view recordings. Zoom.us Quick Guide: Prior to joining the call, please set aside time to install software and 1) Use a computer that has internet connection and video/audio capabilities (built in or external). New to Zoom.us? Zoom web conferencing is easy to use. A prompt to download an extension to connect with the audio or video may occur, click Okay to run the download. 2) On the day of the webinar, click on the scheduled webinar URL sent via email the Friday before in advance, and the day before of the scheduled webinar. 3) ALTERNATIVELY, go to Zoom.us and click on Join a Meeting and enter the webinar ID sent in the scheduled webinar email. Materials PowerPoints, recordings and handouts are available online on the MTCC CBI Training Series page. For trouble shooting help: Contact MTCC Program Specialist Gerri L. Stiffarm, 406-243-5181 or stiffarm@mtcompact.org Making the most of CBI: CBI provides the tools; you supply the drive. This Community Building Institute (CBI) series actively engages service members and supervisors in the community building cycle, from start to finish. Each training session includes tools to break down the big ideas of the community building cycle for practical application to each unique service site. To enhance the learning experience, short homework assignments accompany each session, providing an application framework for service members and supervisors to apply to their unique service site. Pre-assignments, readings, and session homework is offered before a session or during a session by the session facilitator. This session work will engage members to develop a deeper understanding of the materials in relation to their service project. It is strongly encouraged to complete and participate in the discussion to get the most benefit from the series. 5