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Community Leadership Solutions (CLS)

CLS is an investment in Oklahoma citizenship, personal empowerment, and community advocacy! Community Leadership Solutions (CLS) offers a series of workshops that can help issue advocates turn up the volume on the chorus of family and self-advocate voices. The workshops connect participants to useful information from the service sector, business, education, and advocacy networks.

Are You Interested in Improving Our State?

Community Leadership Solutions may be just what you are looking for to enhance your skills as a citizen, advocate, and family member. Many Oklahoma agencies are re-committing themselves to building community-based services that are helpful and respectful of individual customers and family needs. Self-advocates and family members have a crucial role in planning and decision-making about services and supports needed for community living. Issue advocates with personal, professional, and volunteer experience are needed to work side-by-side with leaders in the service and business community.

Benefits for Everyone!

Some Benefits from Community Leadership Solutions workshop participation are…

• Adding new tools to handle common barriers at work or in your day-to-day activities
  
• Increasing confidence in your strengths and skills
  
• Developing leadership skills for citizen advocacy in the community
  
• Understanding how to mobilize your resources
  
• Exchanging ideas with others; expressing yourself and your goals more clearly

Program Design

The CLS training dynamic is a teaching and learning cycle, designed to respond to participant requests and evaluation of content. CLS is designed to model co-teaching/training.

Program Goals

Provide the opportunity to integrate participant audience of self-advocates, families, service providers, agency personnel, and student/interns.

Stimulate self-awareness and offer opportunities to identify individual abilities, preferences, and strengths.

Encourage action steps, offer opportunities to self-direct next steps (personal or community action plans).

Offer opportunities to express ideas, concepts, and visions in an safe accessible environment.


Contacts:

Jan A. Moss
Project Director
405.271.4500 ext. 41004
jan-moss@ouhsc.edu