Network Weaving {Phase II: EPIK Alliance Meeting Report}

You can read Part 1 of the Meeting Report here, which includes a report of the discussion at the beginning of the meeting, and a summary of Phase I in the EPIK Alliance Collective Impact effort. The work of this meeting was network mapping, with the intent to do what is called Network Weaving. Some background…

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Landscape Mapping {Phase I: EPIK Alliance Meeting Report}

This month’s meeting was held in the West Jordan Library building (adjacent to the Veridian Event Center). Many thanks to Carrie Rogers-Whitehead, Senior Librarian for Teen Services (Salt Lake County Library system), who was our host. As has been the pattern thus far, the meeting started with lunch and a welcome from our host, followed…

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Issue Clustering {Phase I: EPIK Alliance Meeting Report}

We had another productive meeting on September 30, 2014. Twenty-one people participated in the meeting. Many thanks to Celina Milner and Salt Lake County who hosted the meeting in a conference room in the county offices. This report contains the following: – A summary of the meeting agenda/process – Photos of the outputs of the…

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“Not About [Them] Without [Them]”

In the spirit of “Not about [them] without [them]” we are happy to report that we were able to meet with a student council from a charter school, comprised of youth ages 11-14 (grades 6-8). Below you can see the outputs of this meeting. During the same week, we also held a mini-meeting (see images below) with…

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Issue Mapping {Phase I: EPIK Alliance Meeting Report}

We had an energy-filled meeting on August 28, 2014. Twenty-four people, including representatives from various sectors (government, education, business, non-profit, faith-based, health) and concerned parents, grandparents, and youth mentors gathered to begin dialogue about the complex issue of raising children in a tech-saturated world. The meeting began with a welcome from one of our community…

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