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Cultivation
ICP builds the capacity of a nationwide audience of practitioners, trainers, evaluators, funders and policymakers to promote community peace. It translates lessons from practice and research and nurtures their application through training experiences, technical assistance, publications and information and referral services.
The goal of our cultivation work is not simply to increase awareness among practitioners and other stakeholders, but to build their capacity to apply what they have learned. We are skilled at creating ongoing peer networks of learning and support. Successful strategies we have employed include:
We build the capacity of communities to adapt proven practices and develop new ones that promote peace. ICP bridges the research and practice worlds, capturing the best practices of each and exposing them to practitioners, evaluators, technical assistance providers, grantmakers and policymakers across the country. ICP cultivates practice in the following ways:
- Immersion Training (IT) - three days of intensive training for community teams on critical competencies (link to competencies under Discovery) in preventing violence and promoting peace.
- Individualized Technical Assistance - ICP’s technical assistance draws upon a broad base of research and practice and supports the ability of communities to adapt best practices to community context and develop new ones for study.
- Information and Referral – we link customers with the best processes and practitioners in community-based efforts to prevent violence and promote peace.
- Product Development and Dissemination – we produce case studies, tipsheets, monographs, evaluation reports and curricula highlighting the best practices and policies in violence prevention and peace promotion.
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