CETI Lake Charles
A record number of over 65 human service professionals from Hawaii to DC attended the Alliance Civic Engagement Training Institute, which was held Sept. 22-24 at the L'Auberge Casino Resort in Lake Charles, LA.
This was the second of two training institutes offered in 2009, and was hosted by Alliance member Family and Youth Counseling Agency in Lake Charles, LA. To view all the action from the Institute, check out our Facebook photo album.
-Audrey Jordan, Associate Director, Organizational Learning and Influence, Annie E. Casey Foundation

Shared Values, Different Approaches in Civic Engagement
--John Till, Vice President, Family and Community Programs, Family and Children's Service
--Jeff Bauer, Director of Public Policy and Civic Engagement, Family and Children's Service

Your Agency, Your Work and Civic Engagement
--Linda Nguyen, Director, Civic Engagement, Alliance for Children and Families
--Paula Purcell, Associate Director, Civic Engagement, Alliance for Children and Families
Your Community and the 2010 Census
--George Pillsbury, Founder and Senior Director of Strategy, Nonprofit Voter Engagement Network
--Ashley Herad, State Policy Director, Louisiana Association of Nonprofit Organizations
Building a Race and Class Analysis, Developing Organizational Awareness of Power
--Jeff Bauer
The Nuts, Bolts, and Steps of Civic Engagement
--Byron Jackson, Civic Engagement Associate, Alliance for Children and Families
--Jeff Bauer
Establishment of the Kids Can of Southwest Louisiana Organization
Facilitated by Julio Galan, Executive Director, Family & Youth Counseling Agenct
--Kerry Anderson, L'Auberge du Lac
--Elighia Guillory, SWLA Health Services
--Ann polak, Retired Nonprofit Executive
--David Usher, Lake Charles Memorial Hospital/President of Kids Can
Funding Civic Engagement A Funders Panel
Facilitated by John Till
--Ashley Shelton, VP of the Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation
--Samantha Bickham, Program Coordinator of the Gulf Coast Funders
--Gladys Washington, Program Officer of Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation
Innovative Civic Engagement Evaluation Techniques Part 1 & Part 2
--Nicole Robinson, Senior Project Specialist, Evaluation and Organizational Development, Mosaica
The Importance of Culture in Evaluation: A Practical Guide for Evaluators prepared for the Colorado Trust by Kien Lee, PhD, Association for the Study and Development of Community
Who Knows the Streets as Well as the Homeless? Promoting Personal and Community Action Through Photovoice. Caroline C. Wang, Jennifer L. Cash, & Lisa S. Powers. Health Promotion Practice, 1 (1); 81-89, 2000
MOSAICA: How the Logic Model Helps you Prepare Program Reports
MOSAICA: Evaluate! A Guide to Program Evaluations for Community Based Organizations
Analyzing Social Media Networks: Learning by Doing with NodeXL Derek Hansen and Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland. Mat Smith, Telligent Systems Draft Version, (7/07/09) with NodeXL Version 1.0.1.88

