There are some exciting developments happening in the Rural ABCD Community of Practice! Below are some of the developments happening for the group in the new year.

2021 Outcomes

This past year has been filled with new opportunities that have helped us forge new relationships and deepen existing ones.

Has this ever happened to you? You come across a new way of doing something that resonates with you, and you want to make the change. Then, you take a training on it, or maybe, you read all the books and articles on it that you can find. The more you learn, the more excited you are about the impact it could have on your life and your work. Before you know it, you are ready, willing, and full of all this new knowledge of the “why” and the “what” to make the shift to this new way, and then…. you get stuck.

Over the past year, we have been embracing the vision of helping to cultivate stronger communities across the nation and beyond.

Please join Embrace Communities as we celebrate the graduates of our first ever Network Sponsored Introductory Power Shift Training Series that was held this fall!

We are excited to announce that the pilot Soul Care group that emerged from this summer’s listening project

This summer, Wendy McCaig and Cheryl Groce-Wright concluded Phase I of the Soul Care For Community Builders Initiative.  Through a listening project, Wendy and Cheryl discovered what helped the community builders survive and thrive through the many challenges of the past year and a half.

Embrace Communities offers three levels of training in Asset-Based Community Development:

Embrace is excited to announce the first ever Empowered Communities Network sponsored Power Shift Training Series. 

When I started Embrace more than 15 years ago, we were an all-volunteer organization made up largely of my suburban neighbors and individuals transitioning out of homelessness.  We had very little organizational structure and even less financial resources.  What we had was each other and together we did some amazing things.