COPA ActivitesIn the fall of 2007, St Angela Merici parish became a member of COPA (Communities Organized for Relational Power in Action). Since then, a growing number of your fellow parishioners have been learning how to integrate our goals and efforts with others who have joined COPA.This March, together with folks from neighboring communities, we participated in the Public Life Academies. This was a series of directed workshops to learn and apply techniques to define problems and synthesize them to issues that are actionable. The overall theme is the Campaign for Regional Shared Prosperity. Specific issue workshops were formed to address Affordable Housing, Healthcare, Economic Development (or Opportunity), and Public Safety. Some notes of workshop participants can be found here. |