Event Details
Community Weaving: A New Approach to Community Engagement
In the Spotlight: Cheryl Honey, Founder and President
Date(s): 06/04/2007
Event time: 12:00p-1:00p
About this event: Community Weaving is an innovative way to foster a community of responsible citizens who create Family Support Networks where they share their time, gifts, talents and resources with others. This community mobilization strategy increases civic engagement and social capital by tapping grass root resources, which lead to the creation of healthy thriving communities. This grassroots approach fosters resiliency in communities by building on the strengths and assets of caring citizens who take responsibility for what they care about. The ABCD Institute at Northwestern University has recognized the FSN model as an exemplary capacity building approach. Cheryl Honey, a pioneer of Community Weaving, founded the Family Support Network in 1992. Over a period of ten years, she built the FSN into a nationally recognized "bottom-up" community mobilization strategy to weave a community web of support for all families and children across America. Cheryl has trained and certified over 800 Community Weavers and Family Advocates and facilitated over 100 trainings, for volunteers and staff, and has received the prestigious Giraffe Award for sticking her neck out to provide a solution to empower families and strengthen communities.
Event Location: MHC 1329