The Hattie Carthan community garden will conduct a 5 session Basic Advocacy Training for community residents to gain the basic skills necessary to educate and engage neighborhood stakeholders in local advocacy around food and public safety in farmers markets located in high crime areas. They are also hoping to create valuable relationships with community residents to help evolve the work of advocacy around community gardens and farmers markets in this area. Participants who complete the 5 session course will receive a certificate in basic Community Advocacy 101.
On August 28th, they will give a quick overview on what you can expect to learn in the course and take in last minute applications. August 28th is the last day to submit your applications, class size is limited to 25 participants as this is very intensive learning series.
To download an application for the basic advocacy for community residents workshop series, please go to their website hattiecarthancommunitymarket.com and click on the food justice button.
Objectives
Community members will
1. learn why citizen advocacy is crucial to food and public safety policy.
2. learn what kinds of issues can be addressed through policy and how to identify them.
3. examine effective proposals and learn to create a proposal which addresses the need for safe streets initiatives for farmers markets located in high crime communities.
4. learn how policy works in NYC and NYS.
5. be able to identify resources that keep them informed about food and safe streets issues pending legislation.
Expectations
For all the participants:
1. Develop basic advocacy skills
2. Be able to create effective advocacy goals and objectives
3. Be able to identify different steps in advocacy process and understand how City and State works.
4. Gather violence statistics for farmers markets located in high crime areas.
5. Join the Hattie Carthan garden/market advocacy team
6. Sign on to all petitions of the Hattie Carthan community garden/market in a timely manner.
7. Help support campaigns by gathering petitions from community members, write and call politicians to voice your support for Hattie Carthan community campaigns.
For participants continuing on with the public safety in Farmers’ Market and Parks campaign:
1. Advertise and network all advocacy meetings held on this issue as a way of promoting the campaign.
2. Sign on to all petitions in a timely manner and mobilize people in the community you work in to complete petitions, write letters to neighborhood politicians about public safety in farmers markets located in high crime communities.
Training Schedule
August 28th 3:00 – 3:30pm
Advocacy series overview:
Last day to signup for the advocacy series in the market
Training 1: Welcome & Introductions / Understanding Advocacy
Saturday September 25th 3:00-5:00pm
Location: Hattie Carthan community market – Marcy & Clifton Place
• What is it? Why is it important?
• Identifying the Problem and the causes.
• Over two decades of advocacy in Central Brooklyn
(Hattie Carthan community garden advocacy efforts in the Central Brooklyn community)
Training 2: Examining the Problem/Solutions for safe streets around farmers markets located in communities with high violence statistics
Saturday October 9th 3:00– 5:00 pm
Location: Hattie Carthan community market – Marcy & Clifton Place
• Analyze problem and possible solutions grid to identify action areas
• Examine local solutions to public safety
• How can this be replicated for farmers’ market working in communities with high violence statistics? What resources are available to create neighborhood watch committees? How can farmers markets located in communities with high violence acquire seasonal street closure permits and resources for programming the streets?
Training 3: Developing the Proposal
Saturday October 23rd, 3:00 – 5:00pm
Location: Hattie Carthan community market – Marcy & Clifton Place
• Identify strategies for change
• Review effective proposals that have created policy change
e.g. recent proposal at the 2009 climate change conference – Just Food/Scott Stringers office
Review example of Hasidic community neighborhood watch plan
• How to create an effective proposal
Training 4: Navigating the System / Refining the proposal
Saturday November 6th – 3:00– 5:00 pm
Location: Hattie Carthan community market – Marcy & Clifton Place
• Who has the power to make decisions about your proposal?
• Understanding City and State government
Training 5: Getting to know the key players of District 36 / Presenting certificates to new community advocates
November 20th – 3:00– 5:00pm
Location: Hattie Carthan community market – Marcy & Clifton Place
• Getting to know your legislators
nice poster! great garden.
It is! I had no idea that they’d gotten their own logo until I posted this.
I’m really glad to hear Yonnette is doing this. And I can’t wait until Bed-Stuy is no longer used in the same sentence with “high-crime areas”.