Tuesday, May 06, 2008

City-Wide Leadership Development Conference

Getting involved once more. This time with feeling!

This Friday evening and Saturday, the Colorado State University—Pueblo Center for Leadership and Community Development will be hosting a city-wide conference on the issues confronting the neighborhoods of Pueblo. The purpose of which is to develop neighborhood leaders to the point that they can become active players in the community politics; engaging the City, and where applicable the County, government in efforts to deal with the issues facing each of them in a more effective manner.

Friday evening’s activities begin at 7 pm in the Life Science Building Auditorium on the CSU-P campus. It will focus on the studies of the Pueblo Poverty Study Group. Members of that group will explain their evaluation of the situations faced by people living in Pueblo, based on their series of articles published in the Pueblo Chieftain. To read their consolidated efforts, you can download their monograph. It’s PDF formated.

Saturday, all day, will begin at 9 am and run til 5 pm. It will be held in the Occhiato Center. This days activities will be to provide useful information on how the city government is organized and how neighborhoods can work within the system to get things done. Or, that having failed, work AROUND the system, to get where they feel they need to be.

If you have already registered, great.

If you have not already registered, please contact Dr. Gayle Berardi (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) or Dr. Colette Carter (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) to make a reservation. TODAY!!!!! Especially if you’re going to be there all-day Saturday.