community research lab workshops_2014_and 2015
DESCRIPTION
Announcing the FREE Community Research Lab Workshop series for 2014 & 2015 throughout California: Orange County, San Diego and Santa Barbara.TRANSCRIPT
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Silvia Paz
Research Analyst, Community Research Lab
Community Research Lab Workshop Series
(goes Statewide!)
Friday, September 19th
11:00am-12:00pm
Taisha Bonilla
Training and Communications Coordinator
Presenters
Healthy City is a program of
Advancement Project is a public policy change organization rooted in the
civil rights movement. We engineer large-scale systems change to remedy
inequality, expand opportunity and open paths to upward mobility. Our goal
is that members of all communities have the safety, opportunity and health
they need to thrive.
Integrity * Innovation * Capacity-Building * Collaboration * Audacity * Equity *
What We Do
DIRECT TECHNICAL
ASSISTANCE:
Work ON-THE-GROUND
to develop targeted
research/policy
strategies and web
tools.
COMMUNITY
RESEARCH LAB
Engages, trains, and
provides tools for
community groups to lead
and sustain action-
oriented research
ONLINE MAPPING
TECHNOLOGY
www.HealthyCity.org
The Community Research Lab
TOOLBOX
•Online Guide to Using HealthyCity.org for
Community Research and Engagement
•Short Guide to CBPAR
•Community Research Toolkit
•Participatory Asset Mapping Toolkit (Eng./Span.)
•Hyperlocal Communications Toolkit (Eng./Span.)
•Maps for Community Organizing Toolkit
(Eng./Span.)
WORKSHOPS
1. Community Assets on a Map:
Facilitating a Community-Engaged
Mapping Session
2. Visualizing Your Community:
Creating Maps That Tell Your
Community’s Story
3. Hyperlocal Communications:
Sharing Your Maps and Research
supports capacity building through community engagement, workshops,
and tools for using maps in community-based research and action.
Why attend the Workshop
Series?
Learn online tools for creating maps that
analyze your community’s issues and
conditions
Gain skills for engaging community members in
research that strengthens community led action
Explore ways to use social networks to share
your community research and knowledge
Workshop #1: Community Assets on a Map:
Facilitating a Community-Engaged Mapping Session
In this workshop you will learn:
1. What Community-Engaged Mapping is and how it can be used to
map community assets
2. How to create a “WikiMap” to map community assets.
3. How to plan and facilitate a Community-Engaged Mapping activity
with your community
4. About CBPAR and different ways to involve community members in
the research process
5. How community organizations have used maps and data in their
work
Workshop #2: Visualizing Your Community:
Creating Maps That Tell Your Community’s Story
In this workshop you will learn:
1. How to use the Healthy City website to create different types of
maps for community analysis
2. Key elements of creating effective maps to tell your community’s
story
3. Ways to make this map-making process participatory
4. About CBPAR and different ways to involve community members in
the research process
5. How community organizations have used maps and data in their
work
Workshop #3: Hyperlocal Communication:
Sharing Your Maps and Research
In this workshop you will learn:
1. About social networking tools that can be used for research and
action
2. How to use social media tools to make sharing and dissemination a
participatory process
3. About CBPAR and different ways to share maps and research with
community members
4. How community organizations have shared maps and data in their
work.
The Community Research
Lab Workshop Series
Three workshops total spanning 2.5 days
FREE!
Capacity for 30 people per workshop session
Loads of resources and materials
Bring your own laptop/tablet!
1 workshop a day, with an hour lunch break
Dates and Regions:
Orange County: TBD (Week of December 8th or Week of Feb 9th or 16th)
San Diego: November 5-7th 2014
Ventura/Santa Barbara: January 13th-17th 2015
Application Process
How to Apply:
November 5th – 7th (Wednesday- Friday)
San Diego: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FALL_SANDIEGO
Last Day to register: Friday, October 17th
**
January 14th-17th (Wednesday – Friday)
Santa Barbara: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VENT_SB
Last Day to register: Friday, January 2nd
**
TBD
Orange County: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/OC_FALL
Questions?
Thank You!
For questions regarding the workshops and applications, please contact:
Taisha Bonilla
Training and Communications Coordinator, Healthy City