Purdue Extension’s Conservation Through Community Leadership Program – Accepting Community Applications
Purdue Extension’s new Conservation through Community Leadership (CCL) program is now accepting applications for the inaugural community action planning meetings. This new program guides community groups, boards, and commissions through facilitated action planning sessions to support locally driven natural resource management strategies and policy. Community groups participating in the program identify issues of concern and a program track of either land use planning at a watershed scale or invasive species management.
Participants will convene a working group to meet over the course of approximately five meetings with Purdue facilitators. Sessions will include community visioning, education on innovative management strategies, and coaching for action plans. The result is a local or regional action plan and strategies for implementation projects for use with watershed plans, comprehensive plan updates, invasive species management plans and/or planning commission recommendations.
The Indiana-based curriculum and community action planning meetings were developed using best practices from leadership training and community development to facilitate community decision making for natural resource management strategies.
Program applications are due by February 17, 2017. Groups will be notified by March 3, 2017 to discuss next steps and schedule meetings. There is no cost for participation. Funding for this program was provided by a Purdue Extension Issues-Based Action Team (I-BAT) grant in 2016. Additional funding was provided in part by the Renewable Resources Extension Act (RREA) and IL-IN Sea Grant.
For questions, please contact Kara Salazar at 765-496-1070 or salazark@purdue.edu.
