Training and Enrichment Modules

Here is a sequence of themed training modules that will culminate the four year developmental model that has been joined with the Connecting Service and Politics inititave.

 

First Set of Activities

Action Planning

This highest level training guides the participants in identifying and creating goals to address and issue. For the purposes of the developmental steps regarding Connecting Service and Politics, the issues focused on will deal with civic engagement, voting, advocacy and any other category

that fits the overall theme.

 

Activity 1 What are Action Plans?-2 Parts (Suggested time: 25-30 minutes)

In this portion of the workshop, participants will discuss action plans and what they think they are. Try to focus on action plans as used by  community agencies and campus groups.

 

Activity 2 Evaluating the Issue-2 Parts (Suggested time: 30-35 minutes

Here participants will follow Step 2 in their supplemental guide, beginning to look at the issue/s they have chosen and evaluating them through their background to their needs.

 

Activity 3 Creating Goals-2 Parts (Suggested time: 30-40 minutes)

Here, participants will begin to outline goals they would like to pursue in their action planning. They should be measurable and obtainable, as stated in the supplemental handout.

 

Activity 4 Creating and Implementing an Action Plan (Suggested time: As long as needed)

The purpose of an action plan is to organize and develop solutions to address a specific issue, challenge or problem. In this case, you’re going to think about the issue area of service that you’re working on, and how your campus team can make an impact through its work in the community. 

 

Second Set of Activities

Advocacy 201

Advocacy 201

Based on the Advocacy 101 workshop, this training allows highest level students to participate in creating an advocacy plan they would use when addressing a member of government to articulate and speak on an issue and solutions they feel strongly about. This is the second part in the Advocacy training, leading off of Advocacy 101 in the first year.

Activity 1 Briefing and Issue Selection (Suggested Time: 10-20 minutes)

This is an intro/warm up to the workshop

 

Activity 2 Role Play (Suggested Time: 30-50 minutes)

Here, participants will do a mock advocacy meeting with a member of congress (the facilitator and/or other participants). This exercise can be used later on in the developmental model of CSAP for fourth year students to actually make a presentation to local government officials.

 

Third Set of Activities

Building Coalitions

This activity will have participants learn how to create a coalition of all types of people on campus or in the community to solve a problem or issue. The goal of this exercise is to allow students to understand how although sometimes different, groups and organizations work best together in problem solving. Further, not only is it good to build coalitions on campus but throughout the community as well.

 

Activity 1 Opening Activity (Suggested Time:15-20 minutes)

This activity invovlves participants doing a mock coalition building exercise by actually forming a coalition to join together in pursuing solutions for two different scenarios that are given.

 

Activity 2 Creating Mission Statements (Suggested time:15-20 minutes)

This exercise allows participants to understand what goes into writing missions statements and goals for a coalition.

 

Activity 3 Writing Mission Statements (Suggested Time:20-30 minutes)

In this activity, participants will actually write mission statements and goals to coincide with the above scenarios.

 

Activity 4 Closing (Suggested Time:5-10 minutes)

 

Fourth Set of Activities

Power Mapping

This activity has participants begin locating the best assets to solve a problem in their community through mapping out their best resources. Through this, they will build a “list” of these resources and eventually create a network thus helping to alleviate the problem or issue in a more structures way.

 

Activity 1 Presentation of  Power Mapping (Suggested time: 40-60 minutes)

This section of the workshop will focus on participants being informed of what power mapping is and how to make it useful in their roles in their community.

 

Activity 2 Steps to Power Mapping (Suggested time: However long necessary)

This last part of the workshop focuses on students creating their own steps in powermapping for their local community and campus. Through these steps, they should be able to implement their own power mapping strategy