Certification as a Public Participation professional acknowledges your adherence to a strict set of standards recognized around the world for delivering quality, meaningful public participation. It is the premier credential for public participation professionals. 

An Assessment Center is now scheduled for June 10-11, 2022 with an application deadline of February 25, 2022. 

Featured Course - Pinpointing Your Participation: Stronger Assessments and Better Evaluation 

January 20, 11:30 - 2:30 p.m. EDT

January 19, 2:30 - 5:30 p.m. EDT

Presented by Connected Realities

Joy Lujan

Facilitating effective engagement and teamwork across social and individual differences is becoming a more important part of many leadership roles.  Diverse spaces and teams are critical to the ongoing work of reaching equity and inclusion.  They also present a unique set of interaction challenges that can result in misunderstandings and mistrust that can linger and damage teams if not managed well. 

Le'alani S. Boykin

In this workshop Connected Realities will share simple and effective planning tools and facilitation techniques that will help you to:

• Understand how social identities and interpersonal dynamics impact meetings and can lead to inequitable participation. 

• Discover how our individual social identities impact how we facilitate.

• Create an inclusive meeting environment for all, including how to avoid creating barriers to participation.

• Create space for participants to hear and understand each other across their differences and perspectives, and move toward achieving desired team outcomes.

January Webinar

January 11 - (Learning Webinar) IAP2 Core Values Award Winners

Learn from the best! Next month's webinar brings together more winners of the 2021 IAP2 Core Values Awards! You'll meet the winner of the USA General Project Category, Salt Lake City, UT, and Avenue Consultants for "Reconstructing 300 West", a major road in the city. Residents along the route were consulted on how to re-build the road and what was needed, moving into the future. 

The Canadian award for Organization of the Year was a timely one: the Manitoba Government for its work to create a P2 "culture" and specifically, to develop EngageMB, to give Manitobans the opportunity to participate in decisions that affect them during the pandemic. 

The award for Respect for Diversity, Inclusion and Culture went to the Vancouver (BC) Coastal Health Authority for "VCH Translation and Interpretation Engagement". VCH serves a region in which a third of the population does not have English as their first language, so this project aims to remove linguistic barriers so people understand health and medical information.

Webinar Recordings -  Available free to Members On-Demand