Prerequisite TrainingDisaster Cycle Services: An Overview (Required)
Mobilize the Community Overview (Required)Collaborating Essentials (Recommended)Facilitative Leadership Skills for Mobilizing the Community is a virtual and instructor-led professional development course. It discusses what is meant by the term facilitative leadership in the Red Cross context, as well as the challenges associated with being a facilitative leader. Participants examine some of the theories and practices relevant to facilitation and then apply them to situations in which they are asked to mobilize the community. Role plays that center around working with stakeholders and partners give participants a chance to apply models for interest-based problem solving and intervention. The purpose of this course is to prepare participants to be effective facilitative leaders when mobilizing the community to meet client and community disaster-caused needs.