NACSW’s September 27th Audio Conference: Faith-based Community Development - An Exciting Call to Servanthood for Christians in Social Work

NACSW is delighted to announce that it will be offering its next audio conference workshop on Monday, September 27th, 2004 entitled “Faith-based Community Development: An Exciting Call to Servanthood for Christians in Social Work” from 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Eastern Standard Time. This audio conference, presented by Marty Kooistra with Habitat for Humanity University, will review explore key concepts of faith-based community development, and what makes communities healthy and whole. In addition, it will look at effective models of faith-based community development and evaluate a variety of indicators of success. Finally, it will challenge participants to find ways to “build community” in their respective locales.

Participants in this session will learn how to:

· Define key concepts in community development and articulate distinctive faith-based practices

· Identify indicators of success for faith-based community development

· Locate resources to engage in faith-based community development

Marty Kooistra is content and knowledge manager for Habitat for Humanity University. Marty’s prior positions with Habitat include senior affiliate support manager, regional director, and executive director of Habitat for Humanity of Greater Sioux Falls.

Audio conferences have been designed so that any person or group can participate simply by calling a telephone number provided by NACSW from any telephone in the US or Canada. For additional information and/or to register on-line, you can go to:

http://www.nacsw.org/cgi-bin/kmp_pressroom.cgi?request=listaudio

Alternatively, you can go to: http://www.nacsw.org/RC/gateway.shtml#Workshop, and select “Audio Workshop Schedule.” Or if you prefer, you can contact the NACSW office tollfree at 888-426-4712 to register on the phone.

Registration rates for NACSW members are just $35 ($50 Cdn) for NACSW members, $25 ($37.50 Cdn) for student members, or $75 ($110 Cdn) for organizational members. Participants can also sign up for continuing education contact hours approved by the Association of Social Work Boards for an additional nominal fee of only $5 ($7.50 Cdn) per person.

We hope you are able to join us on September 27th for our next audio conference workshop!