# Presentation: 241845

## Choosing a Path for the Community 

- Facilitator:	Donna Jacobson, ONAP
- Speaker:	Andrea Alexander
- Speaker:	Carol Pinto
- (Foundation)

## With issues, problems and opportunities facing our communities, this session will provide a framework of planning to begin organizing your community actions. This session also explores the use of NAHASDA funds for urban needs. 

## Integrating Culture & Tradition into the Planning Process 

- Facilitator:	Connie Wilson
- Speaker:	Richard Ackley
- (Development)

## Integrating Culture & Tradition into the Planning Process 

- Facilitator:	Connie Wilson
- Speaker:	Richard Ackley
- (Development)

## Sustainability and vision are key components in the promotion of a community plan. This session will promote the use of culture and tradition in the development of the infrastructure, values and foundation of a plan.

## Connecting to Local Officials for Policy and Resources

- Facilitator:	John Seignemartin, NAIHC
- Speaker:	Avis Poupart, Leech Lake Office
- Speaker:	Gordon Thayer
- (Action)

## Community to Government Relationships with city,  county & state; Developing intergovernmental  relationships provides the opportunity for obtaining resources and developing policy. 

## Involving the Entire Community in the Planning Process

- Facilitator:	Max Rice
- Speaker: 	Wendy Watanabe, Legacy House
- Speaker:	Bob Santos
- (Foundation)

## This session highlights the interrelationship between community members, groups and institutions and the need to identify and incorporate the stories of all in the planning process.

## Decision Making Through The Community Plan

- Facilitator:	Michael Downie
- 		Enterprise Foundation
- Speaker:	Ashley Phillips
- Speaker:	Frank Cordero
- (Development)

## Developing consensus and commitment in prioritizing action steps are essential in accessing greater community resources. This session will promote how communities can develop their plan to coincide with the Consolidated Plan and how this can increase a consistent access to resources.

## Reciprocity, Accessing  Government Through the Inside

- Facilitator: 	Syd Beane, CCC
- Speaker:	Daryl Waldron
- 		ED Providence Indian Center
- Speaker:	John Halliday
- (Action)

## Working for Local Governments: Access through representation:  A local planning commission, a  continuum of care review board, even a civil rights group, how well is our community represented?  This session will promote how as a community one of the keys to successful access and development  is participating in government  connected work groups. 

## Building Blocks of a Community Plan

- Facilitator: Tony LookingElk
- Speaker: Richard Ackley
- (Foundation)

## What is included in the plan?  This session pieces together the building blocks of information to create the community plan.

## Effectively Using Community Resources

- Facilitator:	Gary Sandusky
- 		Center for Community Change
- Speaker:	Jay Marcus	 Enterprise Foundation
- Speaker:	Tom Lattimore, LISC
- (Development)

## Accessing Resources for Project Development; With a community plan in hand, what’s next?  This session introduces resources available on a national level and the most effective ways to work with them.

## Understanding the Consolidated Planning Process

- Facilitator:	Jack Peters, HUD
- Speaker:	Ann Price
- 		City of Seattle Consolidated Plan
- Speaker:	John Judd
- 		City of Duluth CD staff
- (Action)

## This session will promote from a government perspective the need to address the problems and develop solutions collectively with the community.

## The Increasing Role of Communication

- Facilitator:	Iris Friday
- Speaker:	Earl Evans
- Speaker:	Tarrie Cooper
- 		Neighborhood Networks HUD
- (Foundation)

## Increasing capacity through technology and resources: This session will provide how the role of technology can increase communities capacity in planning and developing information and awareness.

## Enhancing the Organization for Development

- Facilitator:	Maureen Markham
- 		Common Ground
- Speaker:	Syd Beane
- Speaker:	Vicki Asakura
- (Development)

## Maintaining your organization for community development. This session discusses board accountability,  the basic tools and framework necessary for an organization to participate in community development. 

## Policy Development Through Planning

- Facilitator:	Ken Webster ACKCO
- Speaker:	Jolene Atencio, Warm Springs
- Speaker:	Mike Downie
- 		Enterprise Foundation
- (Action)

## Are the resources available to what your community needs?  This session will discuss how the planning process may develop the need to change policy or promote new policy to create the resources for your plan. 

## Ensuring Equal Access to Housing

- Facilitator: Jacqueline Johnson
- Speaker:  Fred May, OGC, HQ
- (Foundation)

## Fair Housing; Part of our housing challenge is the inability to access available housing. This session will promote the use of fair housing initiatives to ensure equal accessibility to the current housing stock. 

## Developing Responsible Tenants

- Facilitator:	Jim Willett
- Speaker:	Robert Albee
- Speaker:	Kristine Beaton
- 		Fremont Public Assoc.
- (Development)

## Rental Certification:  Developing Responsibility & Livability;  With the majority of our population in rental housing, this session will discuss the need to develop responsible tenants.

## Developing Community Housing for Your Neighborhood

- Facilitator:	Darwin Strong, St Paul AIU
- 			Renee Greenman – HUD
- Speaker:	Sharonn Meeks
- Speaker:	Janice Navarre
- Speaker:	Howard Goldman, MF 			Housing HUD
- (Action)

## This session will address aspect of housing development, financing and design along with using current urban resources.

## Addressing Native Homelessness in Your Community

- Facilitator: Gordon Thayer
- Speaker:  Sharon Lee, LIHIC
- Speaker: Kelby Grovender
- (Foundation)

## Homelessness: One of the key starting points for communities is caring for those with critical needs. This session will discuss the way communities have addressed homelessness through advocacy and program development.

## Cultivating Home Ownership

- Facilitator:	Paul Jurkowski
- Speaker:	Robert Skjonsberg
- 		Wells Fargo
- Speaker:	Heyward Watson
- (Development)

## From Renting to Buying: Cultivating Homeownership as a goal for the community; This session will discuss efforts to increase homeownership among urban American Indians and the need to address current barriers. 

## Examples of Housing

- Facilitator:   Floyd Gallagos,** **Consultant
- Speaker:  Darius Smith, Habitat
- Speaker:  Rick Devine, CCC
- (Action)

## Putting the puzzle together:  Connecting housing  dollars to different housing projects.  This session will promote case studies of what types of financing fit different models of housing. 

## Developing the Basics Before Cultivating Resources

- Facilitator: Syd Beane
- Speaker: Diane Yazzie Devine
- Speaker: Jim Willett
- (Foundation)

## The Nuts and Bolts of Development: building the capacity of Urban groups to do development, establishing development teams, proper use of training, technical assistance & hiring development staff.

## Bolstering the Small Business Owner

- Facilitator:  Janet Loder, SBA-Local
- Speaker:  Theresa Carr, AIBDC
- Speaker:  Tom Hampson
- (Development)

## Starting a Business: Using micro-enterprise and small business incubators as a foundation for economic development. 

## The Essentials for a Small Business

- Facilitator:	Mark Ufkes, ATNW
- Speaker:	Marilyn Andrews
- Speaker:	Rich Antell, AMICC
- (Action)

## This session will provide the essentials for The Organization creating a successful ongoing business and the opportunities or resources available to you.

## Creating Job Opportunities in Your Community

- Speaker:	Paula Starr
- 		Southern Calif. Indian Centers
- Speaker:	Darrel Waldron
- 		ED Providence Indian Center
- Speaker:	Guy Suetopka, DOL
- (Foundation)

## Workforce Development: One of the keys to community based economic development is developing marketable skills and expertise within your community. This session will promote the connection between workforce training and education and economic development. Resources  like TANF to create opportunity will be discussed.

## Finding Opportunities in the Greater Community 

- Facilitator:	Ken Webster
- Speaker:	A. Leonard Smith
- Speaker:	Floyd Gallagos
- (Development)

## Greater Community Initiatives; The greater community has many different economic efforts.  Whether it is the development of a commercial corridor, HUD’s Consolidated Plan or living wage incentives.  This session will discuss how to recognize these efforts and access them. 

## Tools for Identifying Economic Development Resources 

- Facilitator:	Malena Albo, ACKCO
- Speaker:	Earl Evans Native Edge
- Speaker:	Rich Antell
- (Action)

## How government and community institutions  are supporting your efforts.  This session will introduce  new tools to support project development and resource identification.