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Community Choices Curriculum (SRDC Series #214)

Community Choices Public Policy Education Program: Exploring the Human Resources/Economic Development Connection

Lionel J. Beaulieu,
Southern Rural Development Center
Kenneth Bolton Jr.,
Southeastern Louisiana University

The Community Choices program is designed to engage communities in a systematic assessment of the linkages between its human resource attributes and its economic development opportunities.

Purpose and Objectives:

  • Produce concrete results at the local community level.
  • Engage local community residents in a dialogue and assessment of the linkages between economic development opportunities and the human capital attributes of their community.
  • Strengthen residents' understanding of the complex set of policy issues associated with human capital resources and economic development options
  • Provide a forum for exploring alternative strategies for dealing with these issues
  • Clarify potential impacts associated with these policy issues.

 

Program Overview

Module One
The Public Policy Education Model
Module Two
Identifying Local Decision-Makers

 

Module Three
Promoting Multicultural Awareness
Module Four
Understanding the Local Economy

 

Module Five
The Community's Human
Resource Attributes

 

Module Six
Migration's Impact on the Community's Human Resource Attributes

 

Module Seven
Human Resources and the Family

 



 

 

 

For Questions or Comments, contact Alicia Barnes.