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The Creative
Senior Leadership Program (CSLP) was developed out of belief,
experience and need. The belief is that retirees
can offer a wealth of knowledge, experience,
leadership, and vitality to their communities while
enriching their own lives. The experience
has been thirteen successful years of Leadership
Asheville Seniors allowing participants knowledge
of their community needs, new friendships, and
volunteer opportunities to affect the future of
the community. The need is a growing number
of retirees, many in-migrating, in North Carolina,
a resource the state and local communities should
utilize.
The Creative
Senior Leadership Program assumes that Asheville's
experience is not unique, and that other communities
have untapped, under-utilized resources in
retirees. Creative Senior Leadership Program
assumes that enlivened, informed retirees
reconnect into communities, potentially to return
leadership, skills, ideas, and time to their
communities, while being fulfilled by a new sense
of productivity resulting from their leadership
experiences.
The
Creative Senior Leadership Program began in 1990
with seven communities across the state committed
to developing community support to launch a senior
leadership program.
Those communities included: Hickory-Catawba
County, New Bern, Pinehurst-Moore County, Raleigh,
Wilmington, Charlotte, and Greensboro.
In 1993 the program was extended to three
more rural communities: Haywood County, Macon
County, Sanford-Lee County.
Since then, numerous organizations across
the county have used the CSLP materials to examine
the possibilities of senior leadership in their
communities.
This
web site offers organizational and curriculum
assistance to groups within communities that wish
to start a similar leadership program for
retirees. The materials have been used
during thirteen successful years of Leadership
Asheville Seniors. The curriculum, in
particular, was evolved over many successful
programs. New programs should use the
materials here as a starting point only, since each
program should address the needs of its community.
(Note: This program was developed from 1990 to
1994)
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