Tuesday 11 November 2014

Invitation to Open Webinar: Consultation on Coalition Building & Collaborative Solutions: A Practitioner’s View

Dear Colleagues: 

I hope you are doing great. I am sharing with you an invitation for the Webinar "Consultation on Coalition Building & Collaborative Solutions: A Practitioner’s View".

When: Friday, November 21st, 12.30 p.m. Eastern Time (New York time)

In this e-mail I include information about the Webinar as well as the presenter, Dr. Thomas Wolff. 

Feel free to distribute this invitation among your networks, and let me know in case you have any questions. 

Thank you very much,

Carlos Luis, for SCRA's Online Learning Initiative.

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WEBINAR #4 Details: 
This SCRA online learning opportunity will present an overview of a consultation practice in the area of coalition building, collaborative solutions and community development.  Using specific examples, Dr. Tom Wolff will describe how clients request help and what they want. The Webinar #4 format will be a sample training led by Dr. Wolff, including exercises that are similar to trainings he provides to community coalitions.
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Learning objectives:
1.      Participants will understand core issues in developing a consulting practice focused on coalition building.
2.      Participants will understand the six principles of collaborative solutions.
3.      Participants will explore tools to help coalitions engage the community in their work.
· Register via Eventbrite by Thursday, November 20, 2014 at 5PM Eastern. 
· You will receive an invitation via email from GlobalMeet to log-in on Friday, November 21 at 12:30PM Eastern at https://scra.pgimeet.com/SCRA.
· Log-in as a guest.
Be sure to tweet about this event mentioning @scra and using Hashtag #SCRAsocial
Introducing our presenter:

Tom Wolff, Ph.D., is a community psychologist committed to issues of social justice and building healthy communities through collaborative solutions. A nationally recognized consultant on coalition building and community development, he has a lifetime of experience training and consulting with individuals, organizations, and communities across North America and around the globe.
Tom has published numerous resources to help communities solve their own problems. His most recent book is The Power of Collaborative Solutions – Six principles and effective tools for building health communities published by Jossey Bass-John Wiley in early 2010.His earlier writings on coalition building include From the Ground Up: A Workbook on Coalition Building and Community Development (with Gillian Kaye, 1997) and The Spirit of the Coalition (with Bill Berkowitz, 2000; American Public Health Association).
He presently runs Tom Wolff & Associates- www.tomwolff.com. in Amherst, Massachusetts. Consulting clients include federal, state, and local government agencies; foundations; hospitals; nonprofit organizations; professional associations; and grassroots groups.
In 2014 Tom was awarded the American Psychological Associations’ Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Independent Practice.

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