WHAT: Ohio Empowerment Coalition Statewide Leadership Training Day
WHEN: Saturday, April 10, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
WHERE: Barack Recreation Center, 580 Woodrow Ave., Columbus, OH 43207
This is a Free Training. Free childcare is also provided. Lunch will be potluck style, so please bring a small dish from your ethnic/cultural heritage to share for lunch.
RSVP: to Lynn at 1-877-862-5179 or lwilliams@zoomtown.com preferably by Monday, April 5th – but no one will be turned away.
TRAINING WILL INCLUDE:
* 101 Organizing – why we do organizing as opposed to other forms of advocacy
* Review of OEC current Issue Campaigns: Kinship Care reform, health care for all, living wage jobs, affordable childcare, and US Social Forum in Detroit
* Strategic Planning on our Issue Campaigns for upcoming Spring/Summer Months
* and more!
WHO / WHY:
Katy Heins, Lead Midwest Coordinator for the National Center for Community Change, will be facilitating.
The Ohio Empowerment Coalition is a statewide Coalition of low-income people who work to bring about economic and social justice through public policy. The OEC provides information, education and training. The OEC organizes to make the State of Ohio a better place for all Ohioans.
Join with others across the state who are organizing to make changes in policies that affect low-income families and individuals. We are organizing for:
1. An economic safety net for both families and single adults in case of job loss or inability to work
2. Kinship care supports to be more comparable to foster care. We support children staying with relatives whenever possible as opposed to being raised by strangers.
3. Health care for each adult and child in Ohio
4. Public jobs that pay livable wages
5. Quality and affordable child care
BACKGROUND on Ohio Empowerment Coalition:
The Contact Center, located in Cincinnati, initiated the formation of the Ohio Empowerment Coalition in 1995. In addition to Contact Center, the first organizing groups included Community Organizing Center (Columbus), Empowerment Center of Greater Cleveland, and Miami Valley Full Employment Council (Dayton).
Since then we have expanded to 33 organizational members. If you are interested in joining call us at 1-877-862-5179.
The OEC was formed to organize low-income people to have a strong voice to speak out for themselves. We organize issue campaigns on the direct action model of organizing. We organize in the belief hat each person, no matter how poor, has a right to civic participation in our democratic society.
