Training & Development Opportunities
Resilient Community Leadership Training
Resilient Community Leadership Training
Resilient Community Leadership Training
This six-week leadership training will transform your leadership team and develop Resilient Community Leaders, a transformative, uplifting, and much needed experience for community leaders amid the current social and racial reckoning in our country. It will provide the basic tools your leadership team needs to survive, thrive, and flourish during these challenging times.
Community Violence Interventions
Resilient Community Leadership Training
Resilient Community Leadership Training
This four-week training provides communities with an understanding of a Comprehensive Gun Violence Reductions Strategy and the necessary steps in building and sustaining a multi-sector coalition formed to save lives and improve community safety.
Personal & Organizational Development
Resilient Community Leadership Training
Personal & Organizational Development
We provide personal and organizational development activities to improve the well-being of individuals, families, organizations, and communities. We work with clients to provide wraparound services that are unique
We provide personal and organizational development activities to improve the well-being of individuals, families, organizations, and communities. We work with clients to provide wraparound services that are unique to their needs and the needs of their families. We utilize Cognitive-Based Therapy (CBT), Restorative Practices, and Art Therapy as we partner with families that have been impacted by toxic stress, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), generational trauma, and exposure to violence. We provide clients with knowledge, tools, and strategies to foster resiliency and create positive environments in their homes and in their community.
CommunIty Engagement Opportunities
Village Storytelling
Hope For Real
Hope For Real
We are inviting you to engage through stories of community connectivity, resiliency, hope, and transformation told by community members with diverse backgrounds and life experiences. Storytelling is a powerful tool for social change that can help us shape the way we think and feel about our worlds and those within them. Each month a diff
We are inviting you to engage through stories of community connectivity, resiliency, hope, and transformation told by community members with diverse backgrounds and life experiences. Storytelling is a powerful tool for social change that can help us shape the way we think and feel about our worlds and those within them. Each month a different community member will share a story to open our hearts and inspire discussion. Live Sessions include virtual storytelling, a facilitated discussion, and dedicated safe place for self-expression and open dialog.
Hope For Real
Hope For Real
Hope For Real
This course is designed to help you reset your life. It is an opportunity for you to look at your past life experiences and use them as guides as to what you want to continue to do and what you want to stop doing. We will deliver the material effectively and with compassion, and it is our hope that you will leave with a renewed sense of h
This course is designed to help you reset your life. It is an opportunity for you to look at your past life experiences and use them as guides as to what you want to continue to do and what you want to stop doing. We will deliver the material effectively and with compassion, and it is our hope that you will leave with a renewed sense of hopefulness and determination. We will provide you with information and tools that you can use to reclaim your personal power to uplift yourself and those around you. Here’s to a better future for you and the ones you love!
ReSET CR Coalition
Hope For Real
ReSET CR Coalition
CCDC has been fully engaged in the learning, building of supportive relationships, training, mentorship, coaching, and boots on the ground outreach of the Group Violence Intervention (GVI ) operations from it's beginning stages. CCDC supports the Cedar Rapids, Iowa gun violence prevention efforts and the Group Violence Intervention (GVI
CCDC has been fully engaged in the learning, building of supportive relationships, training, mentorship, coaching, and boots on the ground outreach of the Group Violence Intervention (GVI ) operations from it's beginning stages. CCDC supports the Cedar Rapids, Iowa gun violence prevention efforts and the Group Violence Intervention (GVI) initiative. For more information on the GVI model, check out the National Network for Safe Communities (NNSC) website! ReSET CR is an evolution of the ReSET 2020 Youth & Family Challenge project in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Restorative Mindset
When serving within our commUNITY, our practices encompass a restorative approach to planning and delivery of all programming and direct services.
“The fundamental hypothesis of restorative practices embodies fair process by asserting that ‘people are happier, more cooperative and productive, and more likely to make positive changes in behavior when those in authority do things with them, rather than to them or for them’ (IIRP, 2021)".
All decisions about what we do and what we focus on are made with those that we serve. When working with youth and families, together, we identify their needs and craft tailored, research-based services and creative, therapeutic programming to address those needs.
Service Delivery
Historically, there are many reasons for the inequitable access and structural barriers related to
participation in local programming and/or community and family services. Some of these include (but
are not limited to): childcare, transportation, mental/ physical health, legal.
Services provided by CCDC are delivered through multiple modes with the intent of breaking down these barriers and providing supportive interventions and alternatives to traditional, site-based programming and services. We maximize access by providing services virtually whenever possible and feasible. Recognizing that access to the internet and technology can be a barrier, CCDC works with families to assess their technology needs and help them to attain the necessary equipment on a permanent or loaner basis. Using our Mobile CHAT Units, we deploy our resources to literally meet youth and families “where they are”.
Program modalities and delivery models may be tailored to include: small and large group facilitation (youth and adult learners); small online talking circle groups; in-person community circles and services, (to resume when safe); individual and small group transformational coaching.
