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Year One: General Curriculum
The focus of year one is on the foundations of community development and includes group simulations, providing participants with a better understanding of the challenges and benefits of a community development approach.
Community Asset Mapping and Assessments
Community and Economic Development Practice
Community Strategic Visioning and Planning
Identifying and Developing Stakeholders and Volunteers
Understanding Community Economies
Year One: 2024 Program Track
- Building Our Learning Community
- Signe Bell, UD Center for Community Research and Service (CCRS)
- Equitable Development Strategies
- Presley Gillespie, Neighborhood Allies
- Racial Wealth Gap Simulator
- Tierra Fair, United Way of DE
- Intro to Economic Development
- Troy Mix, UD Institute for Public Administration (IPA)
- Vital Conditions for Well-Being
- Kate Dupont Phillips, Healthy Communities Delaware
- Community and Economic Development Practice
- Andrew Reid, Temple University & Mosiac Community Land Trust
- Newtonia Simulation
- Understanding Community Economies
- Troy Mix, UD Institute for Public Administration (IPA)
- Identify & Developing Stakeholders & Volunteers
- Zakiyyah Ali, AA Consulting LLC
- Building Inclusive Communities
- Jennifer Clement, Educere Institute
- Community Asset Mapping & Assessments
- Roger Hesketh, UD Center for Community Research and Service (CCRS)
- Community Strategic Visioning & Planning
- Roger Hesketh, UD Center for Community Research and Service (CCRS)
- Trauma-Informed Community Development
- Erin Mitchell and Dr. Allison Dovi, Trauma Matters Delaware
- Conflict Management
- Jennifer Clement, Educere Institute
- Closing Session
- Roger Hesketh, UD Center for Community Research and Service (CCRS)
Year Two: General Curriculum
The emphasis of year two is placed on the “nuts and bolts'' of implementing economic development strategies, including business attraction, expansion and retention, and entrepreneurship. Overview of commercial and industrial development projects and group simulations are learning tools for this course.
Building Entrepreneurial Communities
Business Attraction and Site Selection Process
Business Retention and Expansion
Community and Economic Development Finance
Quality of Place
Year Two: 2024 Program Track
- Building Our Learning Community
- Signe Bell, UD Center for Community Research and Service (CCRS)
- Equitable Development Strategies
- Presley Gillespie, Neighborhood Allies
- Strategic Planning and Doing
- Roger Hesketh and Signe Bell, UD Center for Community Research and Service (CCRS)
- Business Retention & Expansion
- Kurt Foreman, Delaware Prosperity Partnership
- Business Attraction & Site Selection
- Kurt Foreman, Delaware Prosperity Partnership
- Community & Economic Development Finance
- Marie Mascherin, Community & Economic Professional
- Quality of Place
- Sarah Lester, Cornerstone West Community Development Corporation (CDC)
- Building Entrepreneurial Communities
- Adonis Fleming, O’Pake Institute for Economics
- Intro to Facilitation
- Jennifer Clement of Educere and Signe Bell, UD Center for Community Research & Service (CCRS)
- Community Tour of REACH Riverside
- Miller County Simulation
- Arts & Community Development
- Allissa Collier and Accra Zuberi, Mural Arts Institute Philadelphia
- Miller County Simulation
- Harnessing “Multisolvers” for Equitable Community Development
- Kate Dupont Phillips, Healthy Communities Delaware
- Closing Session
- Roger Hesketh - UD Center for Community Research & Service (CCRS)
Year Three: General Curriculum
The focus of year three is on implementing the knowledge gained in previous years plus acquiring skills in leadership, marketing, and organizing the community development effort.
Community Leadership Development
Marketing Your Community
Measuring Community Progress
Workforce Planning and Development
Year Three: 2024 Program Track
- Building Our Learning Community
- Signe Bell, UD Center for Community Research & Service (CCRS)
- Equitable Development Strategies
- Presley Gillespie, Neighborhood Allies
- Community Leadership & Development
- Drew Serres, Network Delaware
- Preparation for Blue Skies Presentations
- Marketing Your Community
- CaDeirdra Jarmon, Willmington Alliance
- Blue Skies Presentations
- Workforce Development & Planning
- Zakiyyah Ali, AA Consulting LLC
- PCED Exam Prep
- Community Tour
- Building Community Resiliency/Green Infrastructure
- Anna Wik, UD Landscape Architecture Program
- Housing Affordability
- Jessica Wuncsh, NYU Housing Lab
- Public Policy Considerations
- Kate DuPont Phillips, Healthy Communities Delaware
- Somerset Simulation
- Measuring Your Community
- Dorothy Dillard, Ph.D, Delaware State University
- Closing Session
- Roger Hesketh,UD Center for Community Research & Service (CCRS)