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1.1
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Choosing
a Path for the Community |
With
issues, problems and opportunities facing our communities, this session
will provide a framework of planning to begin organizing your community
actions. This session also explores the use of NAHASDA funds for urban needs.
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Facilitator:
Donna Jacobsen, ONAP
Speaker: Andrea Alexander
Speaker: Carol Pinto |
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1.2
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Involving
the Entire Community in the Planning Process |
This
session highlights the interrelationship between community members, groups
and institutions and the need to identify and incorporate the stories of
all in the planning process. |
Facilitator:
Max Rice
Speaker: Wendy Watanabe, Legacy House
Speaker: Bob Santos |
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1.3
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Building
Blocks of a Community Plan |
What
is included in the plan? This session pieces together the building blocks
of information to create the community plan. |
Facilitator:
Tony LookingElk
Speaker: Richard Ackley |
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1.4
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The
Increasing Role of Communication |
Increasing
capacity through technology and resources: This session will provide how
the role of technology can increase communities capacity in planning and
developing information and awareness. |
Facilitator:
Iris Friday
Speaker: Earl Evans
Speaker: Tarrie Cooper,
Neighborhood Networks HUD |
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1.5
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Ensuring
Equal Access to Housing |
Fair
Housing; Part of our housing challenge is the inability to access available
housing. This session will promote the use of fair housing initiatives to
ensure equal accessibility to the current housing stock. |
Facilitator:
Jacqueline Johnson
Speaker: Fred May, OGC, HQ |
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1.6
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Addressing
Native homelessness in your community |
Homelessness:
One of the key starting points for communities is caring for those with
critical needs. This session will discuss the way communities have addressed
homelessness through advocacy and program development. |
Facilitator:
Gordon Thayer
Speaker: Sharon Lee, LIHIC
Speaker: Kelby Grovender |
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1.7
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Developing
the Basics Before Cultivating Resources |
The
Nuts and Bolts of Development: building the capacity of Urban groups to
do development, establishing development teams, proper use of training,
technical assistance & hiring development staff. |
Facilitator:
Syd Beane
Speaker: Diane Yazzie Devine
Speaker: Jim Willett |
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1.8
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Creating
job opportunities in your community |
Workforce
Development: One of the keys to community based economic development is
developing marketable skills and expertise within your community. This session
will promote the connection between workforce training and education and
economic development. Resources like TANF to create opportunity will be
discussed. |
Speaker:
Paula Starr, Southern Calif. Indian Centers
Speaker: Darrel Waldron, ED Providence Indian Center
Speaker: Guy Suetopka, DOL |
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