California Speaks: Working Together for Better Healthcare

[Raffi Aftandelian]

Dear friends and colleagues,

Below is a facilitation volunteer opportunity in California. 

Please consider passing it on to people who might be looking for
facilitation experience.

Best,
Raffi

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CaliforniaSpeaks: Working Together for Better Healthcare

 

Facilitators Needed for State-Wide Conversation

Thousands of Californians will come together on Saturday, August 11th, to
evaluate proposals for reforming California's health care system and send a
message to state leaders about their priorities. Interactive television will
link together public meetings in eight cities to create a true state-wide
conversation.  Cites and venues include:

 

San Diego:  Cox Arena

Los Angeles: Hollywood & Highlands Center

Riverside/San Bernardino:  UC Riverside

San Luis Obispo:  Alex Madonna Expo Center

Fresno:  Fresno Convention & Entertainment Center

Sacramento:  Sacramento Convention Center

Oakland/San Francisco:  Merritt College

Humboldt County:  Humboldt State University

 

We are recruiting 400 - 500 experienced volunteer facilitators, reflective
of the rich diversity of the state, for this critical event and are asking
for your help in a couple of ways: 

 

We especially need to recruit more facilitators in Fresno and Riverside,
please help us in these locations if at all possible.

 

1) Consider being a volunteer table facilitator.

2) Share this request with others who might be qualified and interested in
this opportunity.

 

Please respond right away to help us track our progress.

 

Volunteer facilitators will work with small groups of 6-10 people to
deliberate about a series of questions pertaining to health care reform
proposals.  Via laptop computers and keypad polling devices, individual
tables will share the results of their conversations with the hundreds of
participants in the room and in other cities. Facilitators will be oriented
to the program and are expected to have experience with small group
face-to-face deliberation, comfort with diversity and difference of opinion.
 The time commitment entails attendance at a two-hour orientation prior to
the event, as well as all day on August 11.

 

To register to be a volunteer facilitator visit:
http://www.californiaspeaks.org/facilitator

 

CaliforniaSpeaks is a non-partisan discussion that will present to the
public the major reforms that have been proposed by political leaders.
Californians will learn about the different options and make choices about
what the state should do. The product of the discussions will be presented
to the Governor and legislative leadership to influence legislation that is
being considered in Sacramento. 

 

For more information about CaliforniaSpeaks
visit:http://www.californiaspeaks.org

 

CaliforniaSpeaks is a project of AmericaSpeaks, a non-partisan, non-profit
organization with the mission of providing Americans with a greater voice in
the most important decisions that affect their lives. Most recently,
AmericaSpeaks convened thousands of New Orleanians to create their city's
recovery plan. AmericaSpeaks has engaged more than 130,000 citizens across
the country on such topics as shaping municipal budget priorities in
Washington, D.C., creating regional plans for the greater Chicago and
Cleveland regions, and developing rebuilding plans for the World Trade
Center site in New York City.

 

For more about AmericaSpeaks visit:  http://www.americaspeaks.org

 

We hope that will consider joining us for this important and exciting
project.  If you have questions or want to suggest other experienced
facilitators for us to contact, call or e-mail:

Daniel Clark at dclark at americaspeaks.org or 773-728-3929.

Susan Dupre at sdupre at americaspeaks.org or 916-801-7427.

 

Thank you,

Daniel Clark

Susan Dupre

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