Cincinnati Training Institute
Courses with Site Visits

These courses incorporate local awareness and real-life case studies to bring your community development learning to life.

CB180 Community Engagement: A Mobile Workshop

To supplement your classroom learning in community development, join us for an in-depth look at community development in action, with our NTI host city as the model. Come spend the day "on the road" - in a mobile workshop - interacting with residents, city representatives, policy makers, business leaders and others key to the community engagement process. You'll come back with a deeper understanding of how things get done, and with concrete, replicable and adaptable examples you can use in your own city. You will experience not only what works in this city's community building, community organizing and community leadership culture, but also have the opportunity to interact with some of the people who have been critical change agents.

ED180 Community Economic Development: A Mobile Workshop
Join us for a first-hand look at our host city and region in this mobile workshop designed to give you an understanding of innovative strategies that foster vibrant local economies. We'll tour the city by bus and on foot as we learn from local community development organizations and business owners about how they have catalyzed economic development and strengthened locally owned independent businesses. During the workshop participants will have the opportunity to explore and discuss a wide range of opportunities and challenges for developing your local economy.

NR180 Neighborhood Revitalization: A Mobile Workshop
Join us for a first-hand look at our host city and its neighborhoods in this mobile workshop designed to give you an understanding of the historical development of the city's neighborhoods, as well as current issues and community development strategies. We'll tour the city by bus and on foot as we learn from local experts of every stripe about key factors in the city's growth and development, about the patterns of neighborhood settlement and about the challenges and victories neighbors have experienced as they work to cultivate and preserve livable communities for all.

NR400 Urban Dynamics of a Great American City: Cincinnati
A city is the setting for dynamic processes—forces both internal and external impacting its health, causing people to move in and out, from a city's birth through booms to busts, and rebirths. Each city’s history is the result of a particular combination of local, regional, national and global, social, political and economic forces. Never a finished product, the city continually presents new challenges. In every city its residents, civic institutions, private sector and local government respond to their challenges differently; in ways defined by that city’s history, culture, and institutional capacities. This 2-day class, taught by a local expert, takes an in-depth look at our host city and the broad range of issues it faces. On the first day, the class will tour the city for a first-hand look at the impacts of these complex dynamics at the neighborhood level and across the city as a whole. On the second day, we’ll work in small groups analyzing the local dynamics and drawing lessons to reinforce our work back home.