The Certification Workshop
You will enjoy opportunities to collaborate and co-design with cohort teammates and leading experts. Together, you will learn to guide participants using the following five competencies:
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Community-Driven Social Innovation (CDSI)
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Facilitative Leadership
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Community Participatory Research
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Social Design Methods
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Community Engagement
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The goal is to create a pipeline of diverse community leaders that can alleviate systemic inequality and complex social issues in the DC, MD, and VA metropolitan areas. The Social Innovation Facilitator Certification process develops your proficiency in the five (5) competencies, assesses your understanding of each competency, and provides professional coaching to demonstrate your ability by completing a Certification Project with fellow cohort members. The competencies were selected based on SIAA’s extensive practical experience and the success factors of our Community-Driven Social Innovation (CDSI) approach.
5 Reasons to Get Your Certification
boosts your career
Demonstrates you are driven and motivated to master your profession and deliver communities quality services
validate your Expertise
Shows clients that you have the level of knowledge and experience to help them achieve their goals
Gain High Demand Skills
Demand for your services grows as you gain skills that delivers results to communities that need help addressing complex issues.
Achieve recognition as a trusted advisor
Your certification allows people to trust you to care for their communities because of your commitment to SIAA's code of ethics and belief in our core values.
Expand your opportunities for future work
As you build on your network of other social innovation practitioners, you expand you ability to meet future customers, employers, or become a social entrepreneur
Workshop Topics
Workshop 1
Community-Driven Social Innovation (CDSI)
Saturday, September 17, 2022
9 AM to 1 PM EST
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You learn how a social innovation goes from community issues to community-driven solutions that lead to impactful benefits that scale and replicate.
Workshop 4
Social Co-Design with Community Stakeholders
Saturday, October 08, 2022
9 AM to 1 PM EST
You learn to use co-creation and collaboration with diverse community stakeholders following Human-Centered Design Methodologies to solve social issues.
Workshop 2
Facilitative Leadership for Community Leaders
Saturday, September 24, 2022
9 AM to 1 PM EST
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You learn to stimulate creative thinking through brainstorming, communication, and other activities that connect the elements of a team or community.
Workshop 5
Community Engagement for Social Change Adoption
Saturday,October 15, 2022
9 AM to 1 PM EST
You learn a how to get communities to accept and adopt new ideas using a framework of guiding principles, strategies, and approaches to engage the community within their unique context to reach workable outcomes.
Workshop 3
Community-Based Participatory Research
Saturday, October 1, 2022
9 AM to 1 PM EST
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You learn qualitative research methods such as, questionnaires, interviews, and ethnographies, with the various levels of participation.
Project 1:
Cohorts' Community-Driven workshop
October 16 to November 11, 2022
With the weekly, 1-hour sessions with the Team Coaches for each regional cohort, the teams will conduct a community driven workshop. The cohorts will work independently to plan, conduct, and report back to the nonprofit's leadership the results of their workshop with staff, community members, or both.
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Fully Certified for an introductory Price of Only $150
SIAA Membership Discounts Apply
Check your inbox or junkmail folders for coupon codes we emailed you. The discounts are as follows: 75% Discount for Executive Ambassadors 50% Discount for Chiefe Ambassadors 25% Discount for Staff Ambassadors Full price for non-members
Emerging Servant Leaders' Scholarship available for 18-30 y.o. with community leadership Interests Scholarship Criteria Serving Charitable nonprofits Serving Youth-based Org. Serving Faith-based Org. or Social Movement Activist And Transition Aged Foster Care Previously Incarcerated Young Adults or Economically Disadvantaged Unemployeed
Apply for the Emerging Servant Leaders' Scholarship
The Workshop Leaders
Nicole Davis, PhD
Facilitative Leadership
Workshop Lead
A Navy veteran. certified mediator, facilitator, conflict coach, personal development coach, and trainer. Has worked in the field of alternative dispute resolution for 20 years.
Keysha Gamor, PhD
Community Research Workshop Lead
Expert in applied research, root cause analysis, change management, e-learning, assessment, research methods, and professional & technical writing.
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Jay Coleman, PhD
CDSI & Social Design Workshops Lead
A socially-minded executive innovation and technology services strategist with Ph.D. research in systems Innovation methods and experience designing sociotechnical systems
Khalem Charles
Community Engagement Workshop Lead
Accomplished practitioner in Community engagement with experience serving Account Manager with the Ad Council - Where media meets message, Communications Coordinator with Cleveland Browns Foundation, and Public Relations professional with Washington Commanders and Imre advertising agency.
The Certification Project
The candidates achieve certification by conducting a Social Design Hackathon for one of our nonprofit partners. Each cohort will identify and solve complex organizational or service delivery problems that are unsatisfactory for their beneficiaries. They will work with different nonprofits or solve various issues for the same nonprofit partner.
The Cohort Coaches for the Certification Project
K. Mischele Watson, PhD
MD Cohort Coach, Lead
Experienced executive leadership coach helping small business owners achieve the day-to-day operations. Serves as Mentor, Diversity and Inclusion Advocate, Business Coach, Senior Change Management Specialist, and Author
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Janeen Parrott
VA Cohort Coach
Life Coach specializing in team building, customer service and project management that helps clients achieves short-term and long-term objectives.
Wanda Little-Coffey
DC Cohort Coach
Life Coach specializing in improving the dynamics of groups with an emphasis on increasing visibility and improving the connection to the mission