Trainer: Steve Schnapp, UFE When: January 31, 2008 9:30-1:00 Location: CHEC Office on Northampton St, near Boston City Hospital Cost: Attendance open to health educators from the Merrimack Valley area,
including community-based health organizations, departments of public
health, hospitals, Ys, etc. that work on substance abuse, pre-natal care,
smoking, violence prevention, and other such issues.
Description: Community organizing is a tool for mobilizing community
residents into taking planned, collective action around issues of shared
concern, and to reclaim decision-making power over their own lives. This
interactive workshop reviews basic principles and practices of community
organizing and uses the Ten Chairs activity to explore the root causes of
the symptoms of economic inequality.