Block Captain’s Boot Camp
The Block Captain’s Boot Camp© is a leadership program for Maryland residents designed to cultivate knowledge and skills to fight for transformative progress at the neighborhood and community level.
This 12-week program is designed to equip participants with a deep understanding of community organizing, local and state policy-making processes, and the larger systems of power in which they operate.
During the training, participants will explore varied manifestations of structural racism, learn to navigate bureaucracies, solve community issues, and develop organizing skills to build power for their communities.
What to Expect
- Meet weekly for one three-hour session for three months
- Apply critical thinking to understand impacts of past/current policy decisions, with special focus on racial and class dynamics, service delivery and economic development.
- Develop and hone organizing skills including power analysis, peer-to-peer relationship building, and effective organizing tactics.
- Learn about conflict resolution, community mental health resources, and strategies to increase safety in their communities.
Who Should Apply
Maryland residents interested in cultivating knowledge and skills to fight for transformative progress on their community's priorities
Broken systems made me skeptical that the people in the community would ever hold power and create change. Because of SUM’s training, I now think differently. Their teachings on understanding power structures and levels of change have taught me the ways that, when done strategically, the people can shift power and create change. Not only has the trainingtransformed my thinking, but also my actions.
Nic Hazell
Block Captain Boot Camp 2023
