West Las Vegas Library Teams With NAACP for Civics Workshops Backed by a $15,000 Grant
The West Las Vegas Library in Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, has teamed up with the Las Vegas branch of the NAACP to run a series of civics workshops, according to coverage featured in the Library District's newsroom on November 12: the Civic Makers Lab series is a free course funded through a $15,000 grant from the Urban Libraries Council.
The Urban Libraries Council previously announced the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District as one of 10 recipients of its Civic Makers Lab for Adults grant, with each library receiving $15,000. The initiative equips librarians to serve as civic learning facilitators and empowers young adults ages 18 to 24 to be active contributors to their communities.
The workshops teach participants how government works and how to directly shape local issues. In class, participants post concerns such as affordable housing, mental health, transportation, education, food insecurity and permitting on sticky notes for group discussion, and learn which level of government to approach and how to organize for change.
"Libraries aren't just buildings with books in them anymore. They are institutions where people can come and level themselves up," said NAACP Las Vegas Branch President Quentin Savwoir. Sessions on organizing and campaign planning are reported to be set for January and February. The West Las Vegas Library is located at 1861 N. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
(Source: Las Vegas-Clark County Library District)
Source: Las Vegas-Clark County Library District
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