We Coach and Train Organizations in Asset-based Community Development
Embrace provides training, coaching, and facilitation services to organizations who are seeking to strengthen communities.
Our CommUnity Powered Framework is built on Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) best practices as defined by the ABCD Institute and informed by two decades of experience.
ABCD builds on the gifts, talents and passions of community members and strengthens communities from the inside out.
Benefits of Our Empowered Communities Framework:
- Increases community resilience by developing local leaders, collective efficacy, social trust, civic investment, and a shared vision through citizen-driven, community-defined action teams
- Promotes economic advancement of engaged youth and adults through vocational skills development, increased social capital and growth in civic-mindedness
- Leads to more effective, efficient and sustainable community development efforts that leverage both local assets and outside investment toward community-defined priorities
- Long-term Impact: Crime reduction, youth development, community cohesion, economic advancement, beautification & revitalization, health & well-being