Trainings & Webinars
In addition to the extensive resource library, the Local Progress Impact Lab regularly hosts trainings and webinars that share policy and organizing strategies around key issues, including housing, public safety, immigrant justice, and workers’ rights.
Check out our latest offerings below!

Policy & Strategy Primers

Community Safety

Wed, Sept 27 | 4pm ET | Location: Zoom
People are safer when they are taken care of. But for too long, we have relied on policing and the criminal legal system while underinvesting in what people need to thrive. This workshop will offer some key strategies to foster community safety from a public health perspective, such as community response programs, violence prevention, infrastructure, and youth programming.

Equitable Development

Wed, Oct 11 | 4pm ET | Location: Zoom
Equitable development is when public and private investments, policies, and planning advance the quality of life of underserved communities. They also benefit workers and reduce racial disparities by increasing access to affordable housing, quality education, living wage jobs, and transportation. This workshop will identify key local drivers of equity, as well as tools available to local governments to promote equitable development such as community benefits agreements, local hire, inclusionary zoning, equitable planning, local business support, and more.

Advancing Housing Justice

Wed, Nov 15 | 4pm ET | Location: Zoom
Local governments have a critical role in ensuring their policies preserve and develop housing so that it is affordable, accessible, and dignified for everyone. This workshop will give an overview of housing issues and strategies that advance equity utilizing a range of levers, including renter protections, investing in affordable housing preservation, and managing new housing development.

Media Strategies

Wed, Nov 29 | 4pm ET | Location: Zoom
As local elected officials, it is crucial that you develop a vision and strategy for getting you and your community's stories told through the media – especially now in a media landscape increasingly defined by scarcity in communities of color and non-major cities. This training will empower you with proactive press strategies – including how to earn media coverage and build relationships with reporters.

Police Accountability and Harm Reduction

Wed, Dec 6 | 4pm ET | Location: Zoom
This workshop will introduce core concepts around how to instill accountability and restrain abusive and discriminatory policing with a focus on harm reduction. Topics covered will include independent oversight of police, use of force, demilitarization, and surveillance technology.

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Media Strategies

Wed, March 1 | 4pm ET | Location: Zoom
As local elected officials, it is crucial that you develop a vision and strategy for getting you and your community's stories told through the media – especially now in a media landscape increasingly defined by scarcity in communities of color and non-major cities. This training will empower you with proactive press strategies – including how to earn media coverage and build relationships with reporters.

Advancing and Protecting Workers' Rights

Thurs, March 9 | 4pm ET | Location: Zoom
This workshop will provide an overview of the numerous policy levers available to local governments—including localities in preempted states—to advance and protect workers’ rights. Topics covered will include: leveraging your contracting and licensing power, establishing worker boards and labor agencies, being a model employer, creating new labor standards, and more.

Police Accountability and Harm Reduction

Wed, April 5 | 4pm ET | Location: Zoom
This workshop will introduce core concepts around how to instill accountability and restrain abusive and discriminatory policing with a focus on harm reduction. Topics covered will include independent oversight of police, use of force, demilitarization, and surveillance technology.

Community Safety

Wed, May 10 | 4pm ET | Location: Zoom
People are safer when they are taken care of. But for too long, we have relied on policing and the criminal legal system while underinvesting in what people need to thrive. This workshop will offer some key strategies to foster community safety from a public health perspective, such as community response programs, violence prevention, infrastructure, and youth programming.

Advancing Housing Justice

Wed, June 14 | 4pm ET | Location: Zoom
Local governments have a critical role in ensuring their policies preserve and develop housing so that it is affordable, accessible, and dignified for everyone. This workshop will give an overview of housing issues and strategies that advance equity utilizing a range of levers, including renter protections, investing in affordable housing preservation, and managing new housing development.

Social Media Strategies

Wed, June 28 | 4pm ET | Location: Zoom
Social media is an opportunity for local elected officials to own their stories and speak directly to their communities outside of the traditional media landscape. This training will offer ways to identify which platforms are right for you, how to establish your voice, and how to effectively use social media to engage your community and support your policy and governing priorities.

Equitable Development

Wed, July 19 | 4pm ET | Location: Zoom
Equitable development is when public and private investments, policies, and planning advance the quality of life of underserved communities. They also benefit workers and reduce racial disparities by increasing access to affordable housing, quality education, living wage jobs, and transportation. This workshop will identify key local drivers of equity, as well as tools available to local governments to promote equitable development such as community benefits agreements, local hire, inclusionary zoning, equitable planning, local business support, and more.

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