Reminder

What: the second session of leadership training – The first training session was very productive and engaging!

When: tomorrow evening, Wednesday, January 14, 2009 from 5:30-9:00

Where: Coulee Dam Community Church

Dinner will be served at 5:30 pm and the training will start soon after. Remember, you can join in at any point in these trainings, you do not have to attend each one. They will be every Wednesday for the next 8 weeks or so; same place, same time.

Unfortunately, we will NOT have childcare at the next meeting. There is money available to pay for childcare/adult care in your home. You will need to arrange for your own care provider and then complete a Child Care reimbursement form at the meeting. Please RSVP to me, Mary Schilling, indicating the number of children, if you will be attending the meeting and will be requesting reimbursement for childcare. This will ensure that I have enough cash available.

There is also gas money available if you need assistance.

Mary Schilling

HORIZONS: Community Leaders Reducing Poverty
Working together to move from poverty to prosperity for all.

Learn more about the Horizons program http://horizons.wsu.edu/

Who has community vision?

Leadership Plenty Training

L-R:
Jennelle Kerner, Horizons Coach
Amanda Poch, Jesse Utz, Nate Piturachsatit

Bob Lambert, Muriel Meyer (Colville Community Member), Sheri Edwards




Who has community vision?

Amanda Poch, Jesse Utz, Bob Lambert, and Nate Piturachasatit demonstrated leadership, presentation, and visioning skills while learning about the ten modules of civic change from the Leadership Plenty Training. They learned that "the “plenty” in community leadership comes from recognizing the wealth of capacities that people in the community possess." Their role is to develop this community leadership to mobilize change.

What's so special about these four people?

One thing:

They are ordinary people who stepped forward so that, together, they can do the extraordinary with others like them. They mobilize assets to solve community problems; they believe their community can move forward.

Please read their stories:

Amanda Poch
Bob Lambert
Jesse Utz
Nate Piturachsatit

Will you step forward to move our community forward? Will you add your vision?

Please call or email: 633-3033 Mary Schilling.

HORIZONS: Community Leaders Reducing Poverty
Working together to move from poverty to prosperity for all.

Communities: Moving Forward with People Power

How does a community move forward?

People in the community must step forward in order for the community to move forward.



Where is the community moving?

To a vision! --But whose vision?

That's the goal -- a vision for and from the community.



What's the vision for our community?

In our community, through the Horizons Project, ordinary citizens like you and Amanda, Bob, Jesse, and Nate gather together to share their visions, to create a community vision of prosperity. Through community action, the vision becomes reality.


Who are these citizens?

You!

This project needs everyone's voice and vigor; your involvement begins with a phone call: 633-3303, Mary Schilling. Your involvement can be what you can do: a phone caller, a researcher, a volunteer at events, a planner, etc. Right now, we need ideas; don't you have a few to share for our community? Please join those who have already stepped forward.


Who have already stepped forward?

As many as fifty people have attended various activities so far: initial meeting, Study Circles, Leadership Plenty Training. Please read our previous blogs and view the slideshows of the Tuesday/Thursday Study Circles 1 and 2 and the Leadership Plenty Training.


Please come to the next meeting, December 11th, 5:30-8:30 PM, in the Community Church in Coulee Dam to help begin our action process for our community.

Please step forward and join the journey.

HORIZONS: Community Leaders Reducing Poverty
Working together to move from poverty to prosperity for all.

Words of Hope

About twenty people, from high school students to retirees, from Nespelem to Electric City, gathered for a public dialogue to move our community towards a new vision. If our community were thriving, what words would describe it?

Two groups discussed our diverse community in terms of needs and assets as they pondered paths to greater prosperity for all members of our community. We know our community abounds with caring, helpful, friendly people. How can we coordinate efforts to be more involved and helpful? We know our community has many successful gatherings: Colorama, Mill Pond Days, Grand Columbian. How can we offer more daily venues for all ages to enjoy a diverse menu of interests? We know many people who jump in to help when a need arises. How can we provide more resources in child care, health care, and all-age activities?

These issues interested the community members, and the question, "If our community were thriving, what words would describe it?" was answered by two groups.

Group A: Diversity, Peace, Community
Group B: Unity, Harmony, Growth, Vision, Opportunity

Aim high; if you aim at nothing, you will hit nothing.
~ Author Unknown ~

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.
If you can dream it, you can become it.
~ William Arthur Ward ~

A common vision of a thriving community propels us to be that vision. These committed colleagues have begun the dream. Session 2 will meet this Thursday, November 20th at 5:30-8:30 p.m. or Sunday, Dec 7th 2:00-7:00 p.m. Both meetings convene at the Coulee Dam Presbyterian/Community Church located at 509 Central Drive (the stone church).

Free Child and Adult Care available. Gas money available too!
Please indicate your needs in your RSVP.

Let us know you are coming. Please call or email:
SHARP Kids/Mary Schilling at 633-3033 or mschilling@gcdsd.org

Please come to add your words of hope
and begin the journey towards pride
in a more prosperous community.

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