As a trainer for the Alliance for Children and Families’ Civic Engagement Training Institute, Linda S. Campbell (see companion article) works with Alliance and United Neighborhood Centers of America (UNCA) members to better infuse civic engagement practices into a more normalized process.
Participants in the institutes take the skills they develop during the training back to their organizations in order to stimulate community activism and lift up the authentic voices of disenfranchised constituencies.
Since the first institute in the fall of 2007, the institutes have produced around 80 graduates from Alliance and UNCA member organizations.
In 2009, the Alliance plans to continue these training opportunities.
