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Grant Writing Basics

This three-hour workshop is designed to provide the novice grant writer with basic grant writing skills. Topics covered include: preparing your organization to be ready to apply for a grant; how to read the grant announcement and components of a complete grant application. Participants will learn how to write effective needs, goals and objectives statements.

Community Assets - An Approach to Improving Minority Health

This 2-hour workshop will provide an overview of an asset-based approach to community health promotion. Traditional health promotion programs are based on needs assessments that highlight the deficiencies of a community. The asset-based model recognizes and utilizes the strengths of the community and its people. The workshop objectives are to: outline the differences between a needs-based and an asset-based approach; identify 3 categories of community assets; and outline 5 steps toward community mobilization. Participants will engage in sketching an asset map.

Cross Cultural Communication

This 3-hour workshop is designed to help participants draw upon existing (as well as build new) knowledge and skills to strengthen their capacity to work across cultures and in diverse communities. The central theme throughout this workshop is relationships. It challenges participants to reflect on what is necessary for building growth-fostering relationships. It makes connections between communication and culture, application of cultural competency models, techniques and standards, and relational competence. References and resources that can support the cross-cultural communication process will be provided.

Health Disparities - What Everyone Should Know

The focus of this 3-hour workshop is elimination of health disparities. Participants will learn about: what is meant by "health disparities;" the range of different programmatic approaches being used toward the achievement of this national goal; the role(s) individuals, communities and health systems play; a step-by-step process on cultural competency that can be used to plan, implement and refine a program to help eliminate health disparities. Together, participants will develop the framework of a Community Health Disparities Action Plan.

Valuing Your Program - Evaluation Basics

This 3-hour workshop is designed to provide specific information and tools to help community-based organizations undertake evaluation, involve stakeholders and design programs and systems that facilitate ongoing evaluation activities. Participants will learn about: what is meant by evaluation and common evaluation terminology; the range of different approaches to evaluation; a step-by-step process that can be used to plan, implement and refine an outcomes evaluation system; factors that need to be considered in hiring external evaluators; references and resources that can support the evaluation process.