Leadership Training

PICO helps equip community leaders with the skills they need to reach out into their neighborhoods, identify common concerns, research possible solutions, and work with public officials and private businesses to put those solutions into effect.

At a national level PICO sponsors National Leadership Development Seminars four times each year. This intensive 6-day seminar provides leaders with an in-depth review of the theory and practice of congregation-based organizing. Each year PICO also offers a National Leadership Development Seminar in Spanish.

Local PICO federations provide leadership training for neighborhood residents and congregation members throughout the year using interactive and experiential adult education tools. Leaders learn how to build and sustain strong organizations, research and analyze community issues, develop budgets, plan for their communities and work with public officials to implement changes in public policy.