Webinar series: Rural Community Resilience in Missouri and Scotland

This month the University of Missouri Extension launched a new series of webinars for 2015 with Scotland’s Rural College, University of Edinburgh with the theme “Rural Community Resilience in Missouri and Scotland.”

This collaboration resulted from meetings at last year’s International Association for Community Development (IACD) conference.

The first webinar of this series “Developing Resilience of Rural Communities that Do Not Engage” is archived here.

Here is the schedule for the rest of these webinars:

Thursday June 4,  11:00 a.m. ET — NOTE DATE CHANGE – presentation by University of Missouri

Thursday September 24, 11:00 a.m. ET – presentation by Scotland’s Rural College, University of Edinburgh RUC

Thursday December 10, 10:00 a.m. ET – presentation by University of Missouri

All webinars can be viewed here.

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