[The Network] Fwd: December 7: Speaking Up & Speaking Out

Please share--low-cost training for people that work with people!

Coming in December, a one-day jumpstart to advocating for ourselves and participants in the new year. Real-World Advocacy is finding focus with a new lens to advocate for policies that will enable more effective services and engage community residents in speaking up for what's important to them. If you help people, this is for you!

December 7, 10:00AM--with networking beginning at 9AM--to 3:45PM
Mile High United Way, 711 Park Ave. West, Denver
Registration is $30 for Network members, $45 for non-members; includes lunch.
To register online, visit: Real-World Advocacy

The Human Services Network and our partner-in-advocacy, the Colorado Center on Law and Policy, are pleased to announce this inspirational, pre-session advocacy event—an exciting day of problem solving and information sharing.

Be inspired to advocate for policies that will help you be more effective! Leave armed with ideas for engaging your program participants in new, powerful ways so that they may advocate for themselves. Eligible for 6 hours CEU.

Attendees will:

• Learn new and useful resources to share with colleagues & participants,
• Learn how to be most the 'most effective you',
• Discover a new sense of our shared power,
• Explore ways in which non-profits can speak up about issues,
• Gain powerful self-advocacy tools, and
• Identify strategies to engage elected officials and decision-makers.

9:00 Registration and Networking

10:00 Welcome & Opening—Effective Advocacy (video)

Chris Holbert, Colorado State Representative

10:30 What Does Strengths-based Advocacy Mean for Our Work?

Mark Kling, Executive Director, Family Resource Center Association

11:30 Lunch: Meet with peers and share ideas or chat with visiting legislators.

12:00 Keynote—Take Back Your Government

Sen. Morgan Carroll represents Colorado Senate District 29. She was elected to serve as the Senate Minority Leader in 2015. She previously served as President of the Colorado Senate, Senate Majority Leader and Caucus Chair. Morgan served in the Colorado House from 2005-2008 and served as Majority Caucus Chair, vice-chair of Judiciary Committee and on the Business Affairs and Labor committees. She was voted Rising Star, received the Excellence in Service Award from the National Guard Foundation, and was critics' and readers' choice for Best Local Politician from the Aurora Sun Sentinel. She authored Take Back Your Government, a book about the power of citizen advocacy to effect positive change.

Afternoon Breakouts at 12:45 (A) & 2:15 (B)

Person-Centered Advocacy—Being Heard (A)

Jennine Jeffries, Bayaud Industries; Marcus Harris, Cities of Refuge; Rodney Epp, People Rising Against Poverty; Stephen Polk, People Rising Against Poverty

Getting Out the Vote—the Nonprofit Way (A)

Lindsey Hodel, Nonprofit VOTE

Nonprofit Advocacy Do's and Don'ts (B)

Mark Turner, ‎Director of Public Policy, Colorado Nonprofit Association

Preview of Issues & Impacts: 2016 Colorado Legislative Session (B)

Chaer Robert, Manager of Family Economic Security Program, Colorado Center on Law and Policy

3:30 Closing Address—Activating Communities to Act and Advocate

Mike Green, The Denver Foundation, and co-author of When People Care Enough to Act

Thanks to our event sponsors and collaborators:

Human Services Network of Colorado		All Families   Deserve a Chance Coalition	​
Colorado Center on Law  and Policy		Colorado Nonprofit Association

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For online registration, please visit: 

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Real-World Advocacy

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