A CAT is a small group of citizens who serve the community by identifying and implementing a community leadership project. Citizen Action Teams enable leadership practitioners to learn values-based leadership and to practice the skills of social change. In the course of completion, CATs also support action-oriented service learning, create bridges between diverse sectors of the community, promote collaborative problem solving, create hope and have fun. Focusing on social justice and the common good, CATs design a project which is in alignment with their vision for a more just society. The specific project is determined after some guided group process that is built into the curriculum.
CATs work on the project over a period of six to nine months, ensuring each member has a role.
Project results and leadership lessons learned are showcased at a community event at the end of the leadership program. See what Citizen Action Teams have accomplished for the last six years . And say, finally, whether peace is best preserved by giving energy to the government, or information to the people. This last is the most certain, and the most legitimate engine of government. Educate and inform the whole mass of people.