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A hands-on writing and presentation workshop that will focus on how to craft and deliver a clear, concise policy presentation that supports your position as a policy analyst or advocate. This is an experiential workshop: participants will prepare and present a policy position in slide deck format, for a variety of possible audiences, in a peer-supported and facilitated learning environment.

Participants Will Learn:

• to understand what political and public policy decisionmakers look for in presentation materials
• to understand the basic format of policy slide presentations
• to be able to prepare a basic slide deck and briefing notes

Who Should Attend:

• Community members, researchers, practitioners and others involved in community-based research
• Community service providers and others who need to make cases to government and other decision-makers on policy issues
• Researchers, community service providers and others interested in developing policy alternatives to address problems in their communities
• Policy makers

An interesting, interactive workshop for non-profit sector managers
and activists who need strong, clear messages to reach a variety of audiences.

This workshop will help you to understand and deal with the media , and choose the right medium for the message.

Participants will learn how to strategize, develop a message and disseminate it to the appropriate media. Specifically, to:

1. Define your target audiences;
2. Develop a message -- making it clear and newsworthy
3. Frame your message for public speaking or a speech.
4. Put your message across in print materials including brochures and e-mails, newsletters and blogs
5. Get your message out via press releases and interviews and letters to the editor
6. Shape your message for radio PSAs and or video production

Who Should Attend:

Activists in community development and communications and non-profit sector managers

So what is all this talk about 'community-based research'? Why the push towards partnerships? What do you have to gain? This interactive workshop is designed as an introduction to the essential concepts of community-based research (CBR) and as a foundation for more advanced workshops. It will also focus on the planning, implementation and maintenance of CBR partnerships.

Participants Will Learn:

• definitions of CBR
• the values and principles of CBR
• barriers and facilitating factors
• advantages of CBR as an approach to research
• strategies for partnership development and monitoring over the duration of a CBR project.

Who Should Attend:

• people who are new to CBR
• people who have some experience but wish to renew or refresh their knowledge of essential CBR concepts
• researchers interested in partnership research initiatives.
• front line practitioners.
• community members.

CBR104 Workshop is Full - Registration Closed

Focus groups are a great way to gather information from a group. They can be used for program planning, needs assessments, evaluations, preliminary research, defining research questions, learning more about a topic, community development, etc. However, in order to ensure that useful data emerges, care needs to be taken in how the data is collected. Come and learn the basics of how to set up an interview guide and moderate discussions. Participants will have a chance to role play the dynamics of a focus group and learn tips about how to work with "difficult" groups more effectively.

Participants Will Learn:

• Developing interview guides
• Moderation tips
• Strategies for working with "difficult" groups

Who Should Attend: