Community Organizing

United Concerned Citizens is a coalition of parents and students working together (intergenerational model) (in Montgomery, Grenada, and Webster counties) in doing basic community organizing work to enhance civic participation. We do this by training community in effective community organizing skills which includes holding public officials accountable, educating ourselves about current laws and policies and engaging in leadership development activities, environmental and human/immigrant rights injustices, educational issues, and collaborating with other social justice community-based, statewide, regional and national organizations to resolve these problems. This is also an area of work that allows community people to develop strategies around changing the culture of racism.