Project Eye-To-Eye Organizing Institute

Project Eye-To-Eye's Organizing Institute empowers our chapter coordinators and fellows to become leaders, organizers, and agents for change within their local LD/ADHD community. The Organizing Institute provides youth coordinators and fellows with interactive workshops, lectures, and activities that build skills in learning disabilities analysis, LD/ADHD community asset mapping, facilitation, and public speaking. Each summer, the Organizing Institute is held over four days on the Brown University campus in Providence, Rhode Island.

Project Eye-To-Eye brings in speakers and renowned community activists to lead the chapter coordinators through a program on community organizing, asset based programming, and LD/ADHD issues. Chapter coordinators and fellows develop and refine their skills as communicators, leaders, and educators. The Organizing Institute concludes with the development of an "action plan" for each chapter that outlines a mentor recruitment plan, a sequence of asset based empowerment model trainings, and the art curriculum that will be used at the coordinator's site. In the fall, Project Eye-To-Eye's executive staff supervises and supports coordinators in the implementation of the action plan through constant communication by site visits, real-time web-based conferencing, phone, email and list serve.

Organizing Institute Curriculum

• LD/ADHD Empowerment through Programming and Leadership Workshop
• Community Building and Leadership Workshop
• Concurrent Analysis Session 1 - Labeled Culture: The Medical Model and the Disability Rights Movement (DRM)
• Concurrent Analysis Session 2 - Imagining a Different Future: The Role of Art and Creativity in Personal and Community Change
• Developing Facilitation and Public Speaking Skills Workshops
• Asset Based Community Capacity Building: Developing an Action Plan