"Information was well presented, clear, and the reference material is excellent. The facilitator did an excellent job of relating comments back to content. Everything was useful!" ~ Sacramento

"Helps us to think outside of the "box" of institutions for support, and switch focus to strengths and assets of community members as resources" ~ San Luis Obispo

"Artful facilitation." ~ San Diego

"A good mix of information and practice. Nice modeling of good facilitation skills." ~ Oakland

"I am ready to move ahead to bring together a worthy wage campaign for child care workers, and this has given me lots of ideas on how to build trust, identify gifts of the child care providers, engaging the providers in the process." ~ Oakland

I learned "to have a more open view and that we as a multi-cultural community are very rich in resources and we can work in a team." ~ Ventura

"Great visual tools to see the assets we have in our community and how we can utilize them." ~ San Diego

"Very good resource binder - information can be duplicated and used in community work. Good examples/ideas that could be used in planning and implementing community programs." ~ Los Angeles