SECOND ROUND: SKILLS TRAINING FOR ORGANIZATIONS SURVEY

Community Education Group is creating skills training sessions for partners in Appalachia, and we are looking for feedback from you! We need your help to learn about the skills that will better serve your organization. Your responses are invaluable and will help us tailor training programs for the communities of Appalachia.

If your organization is in Appalachia, please fill out our survey to help us provide better training opportunities.

Please note that if your organization completed the survey in the first round, please do not complete the survey again.

If your organization is not working in Appalachia, we would love your help in forwarding this survey to other groups who are working in the Appalachian region.

Survey responses are due January 7th at 5 PM Eastern

APPALACHIAN CULTURAL HERITAGE DESIGNATION WORK GROUP

The inaugural meeting for the Appalachian Cultural Heritage Designation Workgroup will convene on January 24, 2022, at 2pm EST. The goal for the work group is to bring together interested and engaged stakeholders from across Appalachia to work with Community Education Group on one of our principal goals for 2022 which is to make a policy request for a cultural heritage designation for Appalachia as a protected distinctive cultural region. This designation is the primary desired outcome of our We are Appalachia: Appalachia Star research project. 

As Community Education Group has talked to Appalachian regional stakeholders across sectors (health, education, work development, etc.); we are realizing there is a good deal of work happening out there and we are positioned – because of our interest in a cultural heritage designation policy request – to coordinate this work. The coordination of this work will maximize on the leadership coming from our collaborators and move us toward a supported effort around our designation request. We believe our work will be more robust, complete and sustainable if we are working together.

We invite those interested in serving on the Appalachian Cultural Heritage Designation Work Group to contact

Dr. Noelle Chaddock at 

[email protected] before January 10, 2022.

We hope you see this as an opportunity to be part of our shared work in the region. Your expertise will be invaluable as we move to do more for Appalachia.