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With great enthusiasm, Janet Nielsen (Northeast Research and Extension Center) and Carolyn Fiscus (University of Nebraska at Omaha), presented a second Native American Family and Community Leadership workshop on November 7 - 10, 2000 in Macy, NE. Participants were just as enthused as the leaders and highly valued the training opportunity. Participants were surprisingly diverse in age, ranging from around fifteen to sixty-years old. About thirty different individuals participated in each workshop.
Funding from NN21 gave project co-leaders, Janet and Carolyn, the opportunity to develop customized training modules for Native Americans based on the University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension's Family Based Leadership Handbook, and to take those materials to the two workshops in Macy. The customized modules are more culturally appropriate and applicable to Native American communities.
Training is geared toward developing individual skills at the grass-roots level, enabling the participants to provide additional leadership to their communities.
A planned outcome of the workshops was to create a task force to deal with a select community issue, such as youth violence. Newly empowered participants will use their skills to focus on the community issue, reinforc ing workshop training skills long after the workshops are over.
Further information is available from Janet Nielson, Thurston County Cooperative Extension Office, at 402-846-5656, or from Carolyn Fiscus, University of Nebraska at Omaha, at 402-554-4987.
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