GCORR Monitoring Training 2011
| Toward a Ministry of Presence Joint CORR/CSRW Training Event Equips Leaders with Monitoring Resources The General Commission on Religion and Race and the General Commission on the Status and Role of Women hosted their first ever joint training for CORR and COSROW chairs last month in Houston, Texas. Fourty-seven CORR chairs and eight COSROW representatives attended the event Feb. 17-19. Participants were introduced to new monitoring tools, logic model concepts, and two GCORR campaigns—Drop the I-Word and Call to CORR{age}!*
Giovanni Arroyo Day 2 of the training, Moy told the group, “Each one of us are leaders in our church. Every one sitting in this room is a leader of our denomination by virtue that you are here.” By unpacking the “ -isms” when we monitor and being intentional about our monitoring, we can begin to seek change. “For change to happen, there need to be relationships [in monitoring],” said Moy.
Day 3 of the training, Arroyo spoke on the topic of racial equity at general and jurisdictional conference and advised participants to invite people to be self-aware of what it means to be a delegate. He stressed that the importance of assuring racial equity at these levels is not only to focus on representation but on process as well. The Equity Impact Assessment tool is one thing that could help CORR members in this process. The tool was designed to “help address the root causes of inequities not just their manifestations,” said Arroyo. When assessing the racial equity at various conference levels, monitors should have the ability to not only point out what’s wrong but offer suggestions of how we can fix it. “We need to be proactive in this process.” *Drop the I-Word is a national campaign aimed at eliminating the term “
Resource Materials
Roena Littlejohn, New York Conference and Felicia George, Rocky Mountain Conference participate in an exercise at the CORR/COSROW Training Event in Houston, Texas. February 2011 Equity Impact Assessment Presentation Drop the I-Word Presentation Media Tools Presentation
Training Manual
Open publication - Free publishing - More corr Monitoring Tools The Equity Impact Assessment The Equity Impact Assessment is a tool by which monitors can collect important information on the constituencies that are impacted by policies/actions of the church.
The Logic Model The Logic Model serves as an aid in planning and monitoring your achievments.
Delegate Selection for General Conference and Jurisdictional Conference Annual conference members will be nominating and electing delegates to represent the annual conference at the General Conference and Jurisdictional Conference. These delegates are the people who will determine, through a voting process, the official policies and practices of the United Methodist Church. In order to identify the best candidates for this election, consider creating probing questions for those who would like to be or considering running for a delegate position of your annual conference.
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