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I’ve been coming to CCDA workshops since 2003 at the CCDA National Conference in New Orleans. I remember learning how I could participate in CCD in my own backyard and it changed my way of life. I have since co-taught workshops in Atlanta, Minneapolis, and LA. Workshops help us consider our personal life, workplace, church, and community, and allow us to create space for CCD connection, engagement and learning. We invite you to the many opportunities we have this year at #ccdaCincinnati for you to EMBRACE what it means to be the Church.
Check out our amazing workshops for our 2023 National Conference in Cincinnati that will catalyze your CCD journey as you learn new ways to embrace your neighbors and community!
Needing to learn more about supporting mental health for your community, ministry or organization? Lyndal Bedford, LCSW, and CCDA’s Behavioral Health Network co-leader will teach an interactive model of faith-based mental health support groups. Using the Mental Health Grace Alliance workbook materials, it will focus on demonstrating the dynamics that create connections for all members to feel welcome. Workshop participants will engage in a mock group and learn basic principles of need assessments and understanding cultural competency to create trauma-informed spaces. Learn how to replicate this model in your context for embracing members in your own community.
“To embrace your neighborhood, you need to know your neighborhood.” How to do Community Assessments and Mapping is one of the biggest questions we get at CCDA. We have created plenty of space for y’all at this workshop!
Come learn from Gabrielle Piceno, Jason Spencer, and Andrew Feil about assessing and mapping your community. In this interactive session, learn how to use tools and maps to discover what is going on in your community and neighborhoods and how to make place-based decisions based on real world data to inform the pursuit of right and whole living in and with communities. This will be a practical and interactive session, so bring your computer, tablet or smartphone! You will leave with resources to understand your community as well as some practical ways to use data to tell the story of your neighborhood.
As inflation and the housing market continues to make living in our communities and cities unaffordable, learn about a new way of creating opportunity for home ownership. We are spotlighting an innovative social enterprise that is currently serving the Louisville community and the local church. Participate in a think tank for partitioners to envision how you and other practitioners might begin to embrace economic development through social enterprises and asset based community development in their context. Ryan Stoess will introduce Promise Housing Plus, a non-profit construction company, from its inception as a model and allow participants to work collaboratively to envision practical steps that they can take in their own context to create a social enterprise that leverages community assets to serve their neighbors.
