Overview of Tracks

Present a Workshop

The deadline to submit a workshop proposal has passed. Applicants will be notified of the status of their proposals by May 1. For more information about the final workshop lineup, please visit www.ccda.org/workshops.

Workshop Tracks

This years workshops will be organized primarily by track. The tracks below have been selected based on a variety of factors, namely the suggestions from the 2009 Post-Conference Survey. Tracks have been discussed and recommended by the local Host Team, as well as the Board of Directors Conference Committee, in conjunction with the National Office.

Breaking the Cycles of Poverty

Innovative ways to address generational poverty and the systems and policies that keep people poor.

Children

Topics specifically related to working with children in an under-resourced community (note: workshops related to raising a family or raising your own children would be more closely aligned with the “Personal & Family Development” track).

Christian Community Development 101

Theology and Philosophy of CCD: 8 Key Components; Listening to the Community; Asset Based Community Development.

Christian Community Development 201/301

More advanced treatment of CCD concepts, particularly relocation, reconciliation and redistribution.

Church-Based Community Development

Church planting; multi-cultural churches; issues specific to pastors.

Critical Issues

What are the most pressing issues of our day? How can we, as Christian Community Developers, be informed about the root causes and effects of these issues in our communities and become engaged in the struggle for Biblical solutions?

Economic Development

Job creation; business-as-mission; retail development; empowerment.

Education

Public schools vs. private schools; starting a school; homeschooling; college preparedness.

Gentrification & Homelessness

How can Christians effectively respond to issues of affordable housing in our communities? How does the re-gentrification of urban areas affect urban dwellers and suburban neighbors?

Housing

Affordable housing models; recovering from the mortgage crisis; property management; low-income housing development.

Immigration

Issues surrounding undocumented immigrants, current and future immigration policy on local, state and national levels.

Junior High and High School Youth

Topics specifically related to older youth: teen pregnancy, youth violence, emotional disorders, this track will be formed in partnership with Urban Youth Workers Institute.

Organizational Management

Fundraising; staff management; launching a not-for-profit; recruiting volunteers; leadership transitions.

Partnerships & Collaboration

Not-for-profit and for-profit partnerships; collaboration of schools, police, churches, businesses and not-for-profits; urban and suburban partnerships, etc.

Personal & Family Development

Personal spirituality; maintaining vital relationships; family, marriage and single life in an under-resourced community; etc.

Resource Development

Funding your ministry, grant-writing, the challenges of recession, money management.

Other Themes

There are other themes that have been raised as priorities, but have not been identified as tracks for 2010. We will endeavor to create a final workshop schedule that represents these themes across tracks. Please help us in identifying which workshops address these themes by selecting all that apply to your workshop during the proposal process.

Please note: The Host Team has identified three particular groups that are at risk of being marginalized within the CCDA movement: Women, Spanish speakers, and those doing CCD in suburbs, small towns, and rural settings are too often left out in terms of perspectives represented. We seek to have these themes widely represented in this year’s workshops and we encourage all workshop presenters to consider how these topics could be referenced, perspectives sought, etc. At the same time, we do not expect that these themes will apply to all workshops.

• Advocacy
• Arts
• Environment
• Healthcare
• Rural & Small Town
• Spanish Speakers (workshops that apply specifically to a Latino context, as well as workshops that are taught in Spanish)
• Suburbanization of Poverty
• Theology
• Technology
• Women’s Perspectives (consider a variety of women’s perspectives: women in leadership, wives, mothers, single women, older women, younger women, etc.)

In addition to the themes above and as an expression of the festivities surrounding the 20th anniversary of CCDA, we seek proposals exploring and placing a special emphasis on the foundation of Christian Community Development: Dr. Perkins’ “3 R’s”.

• Reconciliation
• Redistribution
• Relocation