Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources
Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service
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The Southern Rural Development Center (SRDC) offers training on many community development-related topics. The following memo provides a link to their training. You may want to consider budgeting training expenses for some of the workshops. Sending a few key people from your community might also be an option. TO: SRDC Consortium, Southern Directors, 1890 Administrators After several months of work with our Southern Extension administrators and community development program leaders in the South, we are pleased to release the listing of community development related training opportunities that the SRDC will be spearheading over the next several months. For individuals who wish to become involved in CD work, or who wish to further strengthen their current efforts in the area of community and economic development, these training activities will prove invaluable. Training workshops and educational resources are being offered in five key thematic areas — economic diversification, community planning tools, service infrastructure, civic engagement and youth/adult workforce development. Our very successful introductory course in community development, the Southern Region Community Development Institute, will be offered again this year, but will be designed as a train the trainer format. We are interested in attracting state teams to this year's Institute. These teams, in turn, will deliver the Institute curicula to interested Extension educators and other agency/organization representatives in their own states. The move to a train the trainer format for the Institute is a result of the strong interest shown by the Southern Extension Directors in having the Institute's curricula delivered in a systematic manner within their own states. An electronic version of our training offerings can be found at the following website: http://srdc.msstate.edu/cdtraining.pdf Please note that on the last page, individuals can submit a request for additional information; and as details become firm, we will send you/them a message with costs, faculty, specific location, etc. We strongly encourage you to share the training offerings with your Extension faculty across all program areas. We are finding that many of our Extension educators involved in FCS, 4-H, and ANR have an interest in CD programming as well. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions. Bo Beaulieu, Director Bonnie P. Teater |