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PCPN Activities There are four main activities of the PCPN program and a learning community component that ties everything together. Local Leaders Capacity Building Building local leadership capacity is critical to success in any community-wide effort to address poverty and create prosperity. This component prepares leaders (defined as anyone in the community who is willing to plan for and engage the community in a Prosperous Community Future Search session) to engage their communities in a planning and action process to address poverty and create more prosperous conditions for all residents. Prosperous Community Future Search Sessions The "whole system" is convened in a Future Search session in each community. Here, communities discover shared history, meaning, and aspirations for the future, and create practical plans that the whole community supports and commits to implementing. Participating communities are supported by professionally trained facilitators throughout the whole planning and follow up process. Communities often begin implementing their plans immediately after the Future Search session. PCPN will follow up with communities six months and one year after the Prosperous Community session to encourage and support their progress, evaluate the success of the session, and collect data to inform the national roll-up effort. National Roll-Up and Prosperous Communities Policy Sessions For every eight community sessions, one policy session will be convened, establishing a cycle of community-to-policy planning and action that bridges the gap between the community--where the issues of poverty are directly experienced and the implications of policy are felt--and the policy making engine, which is typically isolated from community-level realities and the implications of its policies. Additionally, themes of higher-level obstacles that hinder the participating communities' ability to create and sustain local prosperity will be documented and used to inform the national session. A national learning community will be created among participating communities. Communities will have access to an email listserve, information, action plans, learning, and progress of other participating communities, and reports on the progress and momentum toward new national approaches that emerge as a result of the cumulative community-to-policy planning and implementation. Other resources, articles, newsletters, special events announcements, and links relevant to creating prosperous communities will also be used as vehicles of community-building and learning. Public areas on the web site will summarize key learning and progress for anyone interested, thereby extending local learning and progress to a broader, perhaps global, audience. |
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