• Community Development
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Rural Entrepreneurship Listening Sessions
  • eXtension
  • Northeast Key Contacts
  • Access eNonProfit Tutorial
  • Business Retention & Expansion (BR&E)
• Land Use
  • TALUC
  • Land Use Toolbox
  • NEELUN Key Contacts
  • 2003 Land Use Conference
  • Land Use in the Northeast U.S.
  • GIS in Your Community
  • Consortium for Atlantic Regional Assessment (CARA)
• Small Farms Industry Clusters
  • National Research Initiative (NRI) Project
  • Committee Members
• Poverty
  • 2005 Poverty Conference
  • Poverty Data
  • Big Boxes
• Other
  • Diversity
  • eCommerce
  • Energy
  • Social Capital Resources
  • Issue Briefs: Population Change and Rural Society
  • Tourism

The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development
The Pennsylvania State University
7 Armsby Building, University Park PA 16802-5602
814/863-4656(phone); 814/863-0586(fax)
Please send questions and comments to:
nercrd@psu.edu

Foundations of Practice
Core Competencies Training

The rapid changes occurring in communities across the Northeast have brought Extension professionals from many program areas into the realm of community development-related work.  These professionals increasingly need basic skills in the processes, tools and techniques of community development.  In addition, there is a growing need to understand the complexities and interdisciplinary nature of this work. 
 
To make the most of current and future resources, the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development (NERCRD), the National Association of Community Development Extension Professionals (NACDEP) and Extension partners are embarking on a broad-based and multi-delivery-method training program designed to increase the community development, public policy, and organizational development skills and networking opportunities of Extension professionals.
 
We are pleased to announce a web-based training opportunity on Core Competencies in Community Development led by Dr. Janet Ayres on November 9, 2007 from 10:00am to noon eastern time. This training is relevant for all areas of Extension that deal with community- or group-level decision-making (including families, youth and 4-H as well as agriculture and forestry).

We envision a multi-year effort focusing initially on individual skill levels (facilitation, conflict management, understanding community and economic data, etc.) via distance-learning tools (Breeze, VTC, etc.) as appropriate.  We plan to follow this up with a face-to-face training and networking workshop in Spring 2008.  This will provide the basis for further program development to be conducted at the Fall 2008 Galaxy Conference.  Current plans include investigating the needs and professional development priorities of individual states across the region and to coordinate our skill-building training efforts accordingly. 

Prior to the meeting, participants will receive instructions on how to join Breeze along with the toll free number to be used for verbal communication.

Sessions:

November 9, 2007
1. Introduction to the Series and Basic Introduction to Community
     Instructors: Janet Ayres and Stephen Jeanetta

Introduction to the series by Janet Ayres

• PDF format
  PowerPoint handout, 3 per page

Basic Understanding of Community by Stephen Jeanetta

• PDF format
• PowerPoint handout, 3 per page

 

 

The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development is located at the Pennsylvania State University and collaborates with land grant institutions in the northeast U.S.