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, 4A S nv , Ale% n m e nta uca ion Advocate The Newsletter of the National Environmental Education Advancement Project Fall 2002 "Building Community " at NAAEE by Abby Rarske_y, NEEAP Co-Director How do you build community ? Members of the EETAP x ={' Demonstration Communities Project demonstrated how at this year ' s ' North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) e wit conference in Boston , Massachusetts . With "DiversitEE" as the theme of the conference , the nine members of the EETAP �((t1, { Demonstration Communities , most of whom had never been to an NAAEE conference before , felt welcomed . In the process of starting on the left top row : Joe Heinilich, Elaine Jane Cole, Alnta Golvan, Nick Plata, Dawn wrench, Gina ( Queen ) Lagaly, Tania Madfes, holding the three-hour symposium on meshing community needs Lisa LaRocque, DoiiGlas Palenshus, Kathy Comisarow, Brady Beecham, with environmental education (EE) , the nine panelists themselves Gar)) Cook, Gus Medina, Abby Ruskey, Isabel Castillo, Hilda Castillo, formed into a new community representing leaders at the cutting HYder Hope Houston , J. Allen Johnson and Alvah Boyd. edge of local EE capacity building . EETAPCases Workshop : The team members traveled to Boston from three very different EETAP Tps� a � �g�� ug' a� � 1Ve�'�lty communities : El Paso , TX/Juarez , New Mexico , Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and Orange County, California . During the NAAEE b ) Planners and Presenters of the EETAP Cases Workshop session "Building Community Capacity for EE" they each presented Twenty people with diverse backgrounds and experiences came their project ' s progress and discussed the following question with together for a 2- 1 /2 day workshop August 27 - 30 at the Lied audience input : Conference Center in Nebraska City, NE . The purpose of the How has your understanding of environmental sleeting was to start a process for creating a collection of cases education or community-based work changed on environmental education and cultural diversity that will serve since you started work partnering ? as a springboard for others to discuss . the values and issues involved in creating a more inclusive field . This is an effort by All team members felt that their experiences in the project had both EETAP to capture and use practitioner knowledge to better prepare environmental educators for working in and with diverse increased their understanding of what environmental education is and how it can be utilized in and enhanced through use in their cultural conununities • ( Continued on page 6) communities . At the end of the day representatives of Project del Rio , NEEAP and Ins i de this Is s u e .+ EETAP management discussed strategies for building local ` capacity, defining EE within communities and measuring project News From Here and There . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 success . The bonds that had been formed among this small but At The Grassroots : Cultural Sensitivity in EE . . . 3 vivacious group was evident as members hugged and took pictures of one another while group leaders attempted to pry them out of the In the Spotlight : EETAP State U�dates . . . . . . . . . 4 - 5 meeting room to head back to their respective homes . In the course What ' s New With EETAP ? of a day the community experts had indeed "built community" in • order to strengthen the field ' s understanding of local EE capacity Resources & Opportunities . . . . @ 0 so 0 0 0 0 0 too of a * * & . . . 7 building . To learn more about each community, see page 8 . LC Design Workshop : Modeling the Process . . . . ? EETAP States Discuss Diversity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 For more information about the Demonstration Communities project . . . . . $ go to the NEEAP website at www uwsp edu/cnr/neean . Spotlight on Demonstration Communities �.