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ROMA Training and Technical Assistance Resources


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The Office of Community Services supports a wide variety of efforts that can help local agencies increase their capacity to implement ROMA. The following resources might be of interest to you:

National Academy

This is a management skills development program for the top leadership teams of community action agencies. The Academy's goal is to develop core management competencies in your agency's top level managers. Your team will come away from the Academy experience not only with a common knowledge base; it will also be a stronger, more cohesive, unit, better prepared and more committed to leading your agency together into an exciting future.

The Academy engages teams in a comprehensive series of four hands-on, interactive learning experiences, in which participants develop specific plans to strengthen their agencies.

Specific positions that should participate on Academy teams include:
• Executive director
• Chief financial officer
• Personnel manager
• Program directors
• Board members
For more information contact:

Mid-Iowa Community Action
Myra Thompson
1001 South 18th Avenue

Marshalltown, IA 50158
Phone: (877) 392-6856
mthompson@micaonline.org


Peer-To-Peer

This intensive one-on-one program may be available to community action agencies experiencing an internal crisis. For more information contact:

Mid-Iowa Community Action
Owen Heiserman
1001 South 18th Avenue

Marshalltown, IA 50158
Phone: (641) 752-7162
owen@micaonline.org


The ROMA Clearinghouse at NASCSP

The ROMA Clearinghouse at NASCSP collects and shares information among states and local agencies on ROMA implementation challenges and successes, training opportunities, and available resources for technical assistance. The ROMA Clearinghouse can help you design and carry out basic or advanced ROMA training tailored to your particular needs and situation

The ROMA Clearinghouse at NASCSP
Mr. Glenn Kamber
400 North Capitol Street, NW
Suite 395
Washington, DC 20001
Phone: (703) 742-ROMA
romaclearinghouse@sso.org


Train - the - Trainers

We are pleased to announce applications are being accepted for our third year of the third National Peer -to-Peer ROMA Training Program (NPtP). The Community Action Association of Pennsylvania (CAAP), with support from the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Community Services, will be presenting this Training Program.

This project is designed to support your efforts to adopt, build and support ROMA capacity in the Community Action Network. The immediate product of the program will be trained Community Action personnel who are competent and committed to providing ROMA training and assistance to their peers in the CSBG/CAA network.

For more information, please contact:

Community Action Association of Pennsylvania
Deborah Gochenour, Director of Operations
222 Pine Street

Harrisburg, PA 17101
Phone: (717) 233-1075
deb@thecaap.org


Transformational Leadership Program

With recent funding from the Office of Community Services, and a decade of research and development funding from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Move the Mountain Leadership Center has developed the Transformational Strategic Planning Program to help community action agencies increase their capacity to reduce poverty today and lay the groundwork for ending it in the future. Our ten-step process builds on the best techniques from leadership and strategic planning programs in both the private and public sector to guide your community action to a successful and exciting future.

Please visit the Move The Mountain Leadership Center's site at http://www.movethemountain.org/.

MTM
Scott Miller
1211 Burnett Ave

Ames, IA 50010
Phone: (515) 232-9285
Fax:
mtmscott@msn.com



To Contact ROMA Website Administrator Click Here: jtolbert@nascsp.org
Last updated: 5/12/2008