WAICC Project History

ICC/NWREL Train-the-Trainer: Career Transitions

NWREL and the Washington InterCorps Council sponsored trhee Train-the-Trainer programs in Spring 2001: April 12 in Chelan, WA; April 17 in Yakima; and May 16 in Seattle. At eatch training, a morning session led participants through group facilitation techniques, and the afternoon session focused on how to lead a group though exercises designed to help members with effective transitions from national service into a variety of possible careers.

NWREL provided the curriculum and trainer, Betsy Ward. Regional ICC groups provided meeting space and facilitation techniques trainers.

Below are some links that came up in discussion during the Seattle training.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CNRG. CNRG stands for Community Nonprofit Resource Group and is a networking group for young nonprofit/government professionals based in the Portland, OR area.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CNRG-Seattle. Seattle Community Non-Profit Resource Group is a network dedicated to providing career development and networking support for Seattle-area young nonprofit/govt professionals. Practically speaking, this means the group is a place for non-profit workers currently or potentially living in Seattle (and those who used to live here too!) to share resumes, job descriptions, roommate announcements, free furniture, and [especially]answer one another's questions about working in the non-profit sector.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cnrg-relocate. CNRG-relocate is a networking sub-group of cnrg to share resources and info on relocation and housing (such as realtors) for nonprofit/govt. professionals who are moving to the City of Roses.

Free HTML Training for ICC Members

On Monday May 16 at Miller Community Center in Seattle, ten service members participated in an ICC-sponsored HTML training. The training was conducted by Wade Englund, VISTA with Seattle Community Networks, who wrote the curriculum.

Participants were led though several steps of web page creation, from conceiving a purposed-based design to writing the basic elements of hypertext markup language. Visit Wade's website at SCN for workshop curriculum and HTML resources.

Future trainings, either basic or more advanced, were recommended by training participants.