David Mathews Center For Civic Life

Coaching community innovation workshops (cci) - cci workshops ultimately aim to place the tools for deliberation directly into the hands of alabamians. The David Mathews Center for Civic Life offers these workshops to individuals and organizations statewide to equip them with the tools they need to develop the deliberative model in their own communities. Cci workshops are designed to improve community capacities to make innovative decisions, secure commitments to act together, and learn from experiences. Coaching community innovation workshops (cci) in 2022 included working with auburn public outreach on the "securing identification for individuals who are incarcerated project", working on the Civic institute, planning for the applied democracy exchanges, and working with the Alabama league of municipalities.

Jean o'connor-snyder internship program (joip) - joip is the longest running program of the David Mathews Center for Civic Life. The joip internship provides immersive Civic learning opportunities for college students to research deliberative practices and asset-based approaches for working with alabamians in community-based projects. The David Mathews Center for Civic Life administers the joip program, collaborating with faculty mentors to recruit students from instititions of higher education across Alabama. In 2022, the jean o'connor-snyder internship program (joip) included working with the faculty mentors, hosting retreats and meetings, and conducting site visits with students.

Alabama issues forums (aif) - aif provides citizens with an opportunity to come together and address an issue of public concern through deliberation. Deliberation is a form of decision-making that encourages citizens to examine multiple approaches to addressing an issue and ultimately find common ground for action. Through deliberation, a group of individuals attempts to look at what matters to a community in relation to an issue and weigh possible action ideas against costs, consequences, and tradeoffs. A neutral moderator guides the deliberative discussion using an issue framework provided by national issues forums (nif) or the David Mathews Center for Civic Life, and a neutral recorder works to capture and share the major themes and ideas. Using the information gathered through forum reflections and post- forum questionnaires, the David Mathews Center for Civic Life provides annual reports to the public on how citizens are thinking on issues in the areas of citizen responsibility, e

Providing and producing forums for citizenship education.

Providing and producing forums for citizenship education.

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