Diamond Leadership Certificate

DIAMOND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT CERTIFICATE
The Diamond Civic Engagement Leadership Certificate is designed to prepare students for lifelong engagement and involvement in community life through individual and collective actions designed to identify and address issues of public concern. Students will need to utilize many of the leadership skills offered in the Bronze, Silver, Emerald and Sapphire certificates to successfully complete this certificate. Civic engagement begins with volunteering and service and require a higher level of commitment that involves working with others in a campus or community-based project or social justice issue. Engagement includes joining neighborhood organizations; participating in local school and community organizations; joining political parties and running for office; active involvement in local, state, national and global organizations and issues; and serving others to make a positive difference in the local, regional, national and global community.

Students should begin this certificate by taking the first three required workshops: What Is Civic and Community Engagement?, Community Mapping and Community Engagement and Social Justice Activity Preparation. The last required workshop on Community Engagement and Social Justices Activities--Structured Reflection is a structured reflection scheduled on GREAT Day in April to permit time to complete and reflect on the engagement project or social justice activity. Students will be encouraged to pursue projects that reflect their personal passions and interests and may be related to careers and future lives as engaged citizens.

The Diamond Certificate will be awarded upon completion of eight workshops, including the four required workshops (What is Civic and Community Engagement, Community Mapping, Community Engagement and Social Justice Activites--Structured Reflection), submission of journal reflections for each workshop and completion of a civic engagement project or a reflection paper on involvement in a social justice issue.

REQUIRED WORKSHOPS:

What is Civic & Community Engagement? 9/14 & 1/18
Community Mapping 9/21, 1/16 & 1/25
Community Engagement and Social Justice Activity Preparation 10/12, 11/2 & 2/8
Community Engagement and Social Justice Activities Structured Reflection 4/17

ADDITIONAL WORKSHOPS:

Beyond the 3 Rs: Education for Living in Ethical and Sustainable Ways (Issues in Social Jusitce Sereis) 11/7 & 4/2
Community Build: Exploring Social Classes (Issues in Social Justice Sereis) 12/6
Critical Evaluation of Energy Use Choices (Issues in Social Justice Sereis) 11/8 & 2/14
Disability, Accerss to College and Universal Design (Issues in Social Justice Sereis) 4/3
Ethical Decisions - What Your Choices Say About You 12/6
From the Wadsworth Stage to the World Stage 11/10
Genocide After the Holocaust...12/5
Grant Writing: "Show Me the Money" 11/14 & 3/19
Leadership in Energy Sustainability 10/25
Leadership is Learned and Earned (Pearls of Wisdom Series) 3/29
Live Green Expo 2/8
Mass Imprisonment in the United States 9/28
Planning and Leading Service Trips 2/15
Philanthropy 3/20
Problem Solving 2/2
Rebuilding Communities from Brookly to ... (Pearls of Wisdom Series) 10/20
Servant Leadership 10/18, 1/16 & 1/24
Social Change Model of Leadership 10/19 & 1/17
Socialized for Change 11/14