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Organizations that serve our most vulnerable communities face, themselves, increasing workloads and escalating stresses. The need has never been greater to support social justice and social service organizations with tools for creating cohesiveness, engagement, and sustainability.
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The new round of the Organizational Wellness Project is here!
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Center for Council's Organizational Wellness Project (formerly called the Social Justice Council Project) is designed to strengthen and support those working on the front lines of social justice and community engagement by providing Council training to organization staff members. Participants gain tools to facilitate mindful, non-judgmental, and productive dialogue within their own organizational community as well as with the populations that they serve. Through the Organizational Wellness Project, participants learn to more effectively engage with their constituents, while also fostering more cooperative and supportive work environments.
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The Organizational Wellness Project is a grant-funded training program designed to offer, at no cost to participating organizations, skills and training that strengthens and supports those working on the front lines of social justice and community engagement. The project offers participating organizations a series of community-building experiences and immersive Council training for a select internal team, individualized mentoring, and hands-on support with integrating the practice of Council into their organizational culture and operations.
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Center for Council held a third round of the initiative from Fall 2017 and continued throughout 2018, working with an entirely new cohort of Southern California organizations, including, for the first time, two law enforcement agencies. Participating organizations in this third round include: Arts for Incarcerated Youth Network, Brotherhood Crusade, Community Health Councils, Los Angeles Department on Disability, The Mixteco/Indígena Community Organizing Project (MICOP), My Friend's Place, Para Los Niños, Project ALOFA, Proyecto Pastoral, Rosemary Children's Services, Safe Place for Youth, Social Justice Learning Institute, Stepping Forward LA, Youth Action Project, Los Angeles Police Department, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Learn more about previous participants.
Applications are available now for the next round of the project! |
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The Organizational Wellness Project is made possible through the generous support of The Angell Foundation.
Impact
Program evaluation conducted by independent researchers at UCLA found that Council can be successfully implemented in a variety of different social justice agencies. The Organizational Wellness Project helps participants improve their communication skills, empathy, workplace connectedness, and mindfulness, as well as reduces social anxiety when having to speak in group settings.
Participants report that the program helped them improve their listening skills and form deep bonds with their fellow co-workers. The majority of participants also indicated that they’d like to continue to participate in Council and/or incorporate some aspect of what they have learned in other areas of their lives after the project’s end. Over two dozen alumni of our Organizational Wellness Projects have gone on to enter our training program to become certified Council Trainers and to join the Center for Council program team.
Participants report that the program helped them improve their listening skills and form deep bonds with their fellow co-workers. The majority of participants also indicated that they’d like to continue to participate in Council and/or incorporate some aspect of what they have learned in other areas of their lives after the project’s end. Over two dozen alumni of our Organizational Wellness Projects have gone on to enter our training program to become certified Council Trainers and to join the Center for Council program team.
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To support programming like this, or if your organization is interested in participating in the next Organizational Wellness Project, please contact us now.
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