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2018-2019 Learning in Community Workshops

The Ginsberg Center offers multiple workshops to support students and staff who are working with communities through courses, student organizations or independently. Learning in Community (LinC) is an educational workshop and training series focused on supporting those interested in community engagement, social justice, democratic engagement, advocacy, activism and philanthropy. Sessions address one or more of the following areas: 

Community Engagement Essentials

Democratic Engagement

Student Organization Support 

In addition to our LinC Workshop Series, groups can also request individual workshops. For more information, or to submit a request for one of the below workshops, please visit our website: ginsberg.umich.edu/linc.



Institute for Community-Driven Practice: Day 1

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School of Social Work
Neeraja Aravamudan, Danyelle Reynolds, Amanda Healy

For over 20 years, the Ginsberg Center has worked with students, faculty, and communities to develop the skills for ethically connect campus and communities. We use a community-driven model of engagement created to generate sustainable impact. The Institute for Community-Driven Practice (CDP) is a training program, offered by the Ginsberg Center, designed for faculty and staff who support community-engaged practice and scholarship. This two-day program will provide an intensive exploration of the principles of community engagement, and opportunities to begin integrating community engagement into their own curriculum and training.


Participants will be able to:


Experience core content from Ginsberg Center’s multi-modal community engagement workshops


Build foundational knowledge for crafting and sustaining ethical campus-community partnerships


Recognize how diversity, equity and inclusion practices and ethical community engagement are necessarily connected


Engage in continuous reflection to deepen their understanding of their own learning contexts and their vision for community engagement


Apply strategies for adapting their courses or programs to align with key principles.


Connect with faculty and staff incorporating community engagement into curricular and co-curricular offerings.


Cost: $300, sliding scale, for training and access to materials 


Date: June 10-11, 2019


Registration Deadline: Space is limited. Register Here by Monday, May 20th.  

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