Project Citizen Training - Feb 1, 2013

Project Citizen Training, February 1, 2013

 

Kentucky Campus Compact and the UK Scripps Howard First Amendment Center are hosting a Project Citizen training on Friday, February 1, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., in the Boone Faculty Center.

 

Project Citizen is a curricular program for middle, secondary, and post-secondary students, youth organizations, and adult groups that promotes competent and responsible participation in local and state government. The program helps participants learn how to monitor and influence public policy. In the process, they develop support for democratic values and principles, tolerance, and feelings of political efficacy.

 

Entire classes of students or members of youth or adult organizations work cooperatively to identify a public policy problem in their community. They then research the problem, evaluate alternative solutions, develop their own solution in the form of a public policy, and create a political action plan to enlist local or state authorities to adopt their proposed policy. Participants develop a portfolio of their work and present their project in a public hearing showcase before a panel of civic-minded community members.

 

Nancy Carpenter from KET and Matt Daley and Lindsay Thurston from the Kentucky Secretary of State's Office will join the program at lunch. For more information, visit the program website. If you would like to attend as part of the Transylvania group, contact Karen Anderson, 233-8182, kanderson@transy.edu by January 28.