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What We Do and How We Do It
The Chandler Center prepares the seedbed in which new and better models of community can
grow and flourish. We don't "make things happen" so much as provide the
environment in which they can happen.
Some of the community-building efforts we've helped foster include:
 | Albany STRIDE -- A comprehensive community action plan targeting a
wide range of issues affecting Albany, Oregon, and how to use existing resources and
develop new ones to deal with them.
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| "Morning After" Forums -- These events bring together
leaders from across Oregon for freewheeling, candid discussions of issues vital to the
state's future. "Morning After" Forums are held shortly after each major state
election. A report on the latest one, held December 13, 1996, can be accessed on this Web
site. The Chandler Center also organizes other community summits, including Oregon's Crime
Victims' Initiative Summit and Youth Summit.
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| Lutheran Family Service -- The Center helped organize the
non-profit system to work in collaboration with communities and other networks in the
Oregon-Washington region.
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| Juvenile justice reform -- The Center, in cooperation with Oregon
State University Extension and the Oregon Juvenile Development Directors Association, took
part in a two-year effort to evaluate and redesign the state's juvenile justice system.
This process culminated in a Juvenile Justice Summit which produced 14 specific
recommendations for change. The passage of the state's Juvenile Justice Reform Act in 1995
was one direct outcome of this effort.
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| National Coalition Supporting Non-Gang Activity -- The Center
facilitated and served as an education base for President Clinton's Cabinet and Attorney
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GROWING COMMUNITY FROM THE GROUND UP
Chandler Center for Community Leadership
2600 NW College Way, Cascades Hall #226
Bend, Oregon 97701
Phone (541) 388-8361 · Fax (541) 383-8002
e-mail chandlercenter@oregonstate.edu
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