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Leadership class seeks your help with community project

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013

Leadership Clackamas County is an adult leadership and development program put on by Your Chamber to engage experienced and emerging business and community leaders to expand their knowledge and skills to better our community’s economic and cultural future. Each year the class completes a community service project. This year’s class is proud to team up with the Wichita Center for Family & Community to enhance the quality of services and structures at the center bettering the environment for developing healthier and happier children and families in the surrounding areas.

The Wichita Center was originally the Wichita School, educating and providing guidance to generations of children. After 100 years of service the North Clackamas Schools envisioned turning the building into a center to support families and community. In 2009, the Wichita Center was established and since then has become a thriving station for families seeking support. Some of the programs offered at the building include:

  • Family Support Center – resources for homeless students & families facing hard times
  • Backpack Buddies – weekend nutrition program for elementary kids
  • Dental Health Solutions – dental hygiene, screening and critical care for children without insurance or access to a DMD
  • Head Start – preschool for low-income children ages 3 & 4
  • Community Services – Facility use, child care, driver education and SafetyTown classes

Leadership Clackamas County is going to support and enhance the Community Services area of programs offered at the Wichita center by installing a new play structure, renovating the existing play structure and adding a picnic table to the grounds. The new play structure and renovation of the existing structure will increase the area of total play structure on the grounds allowing for more children to exercise. The picnic table is a place for families to watch their children play and to have a healthy meal with beautiful surroundings of outdoors and life.

This is a wonderful opportunity to help our community and we CAN NOT do it without you! The Leadership Class will be working April 27th - 28th and May 4th  - May 5th  on the playground. They will be working Saturdays (27th & 4th) from 8am to 6pm and Sundays (28th & 5th) from 2pm to 6pm.  To donate time, materials or cash to help the Leadership Class complete their project, please contact Emily Spall at 503.833.5197.

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Leadership 2012/13 is off and leading!

Tuesday, December 18th, 2012

The North Clackamas Leadership Clackamas County Class is a 9-month training that offers emerging leaders of companies and organizations in the North Clackamas area a chance to come together to learn and practice leadership skills. The class, which meets on the second Wednesday of the month from October – May, consists of a variety of speakers as well as hand-on skill building opportunities. The group is also charged with planning and executing a community project.

As the Development Director for a local non- profit, I have come to this class hoping to; learn more about the community that make up North Clackamas Chamber, examine my skill base and gain knowledge of ways to improve and grow in leadership, and to educate others about the work done by my organization.  My classmates include professionals from local governments, health care, financial institutions, small family owned and large businesses, and even our new chamber director!   Together we have, in the last three months, begun the process of forming a cohesive group whose goal is to learn to lead our organizations and our communities in a more effective way.

Activities are diverse and can be anything from donning a harness and helmet and walking a tight-rope over a 50 foot gully to role-playing crisis communications strategies the day after the terrible tragedy at Clackamas Town Center. The class is facilitated by Leadership graduates including Gary Young from PGE and Sheldon Penner of Amicus Data who are sharing their expertise and experience. Other graduates also participate including Chief Fred Charlton of Clackamas Fire District #1 who spoke on team building and North Clackamas School District’s Director of Community and Government Relations, Joe Krumm who lead us in activities around strategic organizational communications.

I found Chief Charlton’s discussion on good team building particularly motivating. He has seven points that include not only having common goals, mission, vision and values but also accountability and a willingness to follow when appropriate. I was particularly drawn to his idea that to facilitate a team environment a good leader should not, “Share an inspired vision but INSPIRE a shared vision.”

So, the 2012/13 North Clackamas Leadership Clackamas County class is off!  Learning…and growing…and inspiring one another to a shared vision for a class project. Stay tuned to see where we lead.

Submitted by
Class Co-Historian
Pamela White, Development Director
Clackamas Women’s Services

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WANTED: A few good leaders

Sunday, July 22nd, 2012

•      Do you have the desire to help shape the leadership pool within our community?

•      Do you have the desire to have an impact on the lives of the upcoming leaders in your company?

•      Do you have the desire to voice your leadership vision with NCCC?

Well, Gary Young, Portland General Electric (PGE), has got an offer for you.

The Steering Committee for Leadership Clackamas County is looking for a few strong leaders to help shape and carry out our vision of training leaders within our community.  This committee is responsible for curriculum development, class planning, and training execution.

The upcoming course year will be challenging.  The county has needed to cut back on its funding of the Clackamas County Youth Leadership Project (YLP) which has resulted in the elimination of this portion of the program.  As within any change, this presents a challenge to the Steering Committee to re-evaluate the program and work towards a new emphasis on core leadership skills for the business community.

Would you join Young in this endeavor?  Will you support the vision of LCC with your time and leadership?

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