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Community Weaving


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Community Weaving is a innovative approach to foster a community of responsible citizens who create Family Support Networks where they share their time, gifts, talents and resources with others. This community mobilization strategy increases civic engagement and social capital by tapping grass root resources resulting in the creation of healthy thriving communities. Family Support Networks meet the needs of families and children in the old fashioned way, neighbor to neighbor. Through the use of telephones and a web-based technology families can easily and immediately access a myriad of resources to help themselves and others in the community.

Benefits of Community Weaving
This grassroots mobilization strategy fosters resiliency in communities and builds on the strengths and assets of caring citizens who take responsibility for what they care about. They spearhead initiatives that improve living conditions and coordinate their efforts with local organizations to foster healthy thriving communities.
What is a Community Weaver?
A Community Weaver is a trained volunteer or staff person who helps people create Family Support Networks in their schools, churches, corporations and organizations.
What Community Weavers do
Community Weavers recruit Good Neighbors and weave them into Family Support Networks. They also train Family Advocate volunteers. Good Neighbors pool resources and lend assistance to those who need a helping hand. Community Weavers help them organize activities and prepare for disasters and respond to emergencies.
What function they serve in the community
Community Weavers increase community capacity and improve service delivery systems by engaging citizens as leaders and role-models. They are able to provide agencies with much needed resources to better serve clients.
Opportunities to learn and grow
Community Weavers help people organize educational and recreational opportunities to raise cultural awareness, build new skills and have fun. Community Weavers are networked to each other around the world.

 

 

 

 

 

  
   

Certification Training
Community Weavers attend a 3-day training institute to start Community Weaving. They learn how to weave the human and tangible resources of the grassroots with the skills and expertise of formal systems to build and bridge social capital.

Community Weaver Certification Training
This leadership training gives you insight into transformative community building theories and practices. You‘ll learn how to engage citizens to build social capital and receive the tools, techniques and technology to start Community Weaving. You'll create a customized recruitment strategy to recruit Good Neighbors who pool resources and post educational, social and recreational activities on the FSN web site. Upon completion you will receive a volunteer training manual to train Family Advocate volunteers who provide direct services to referrals. You'll be amazed at how easy it is to engage, train and mobilize a grass roots social support system that functions interdependently with formal institutions to improve the health, welfare and safety of the whole community from the inside out. A 2-day Training of Trainers of Volunteers follows this training.

 
 

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Cheryl Honey, C.P.P,
Master Weaver & FSN Founder
Marilyn S. Dow, ThinkLink®

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