Harold Washington College and The Citizens Campaign to announce the launch of a Citizen Leadership Center designed to train students and members of the community in no-blame, pragmatic problem-solving skills and provide opportunities for them to put their training to use as “citizen leaders” working to better Chicago this Thursday, Dec. 2nd at 10am at the College (30 E. Lake Street). Harold Washington College is one of 11 community colleges around the nation where model Citizen Leadership Centers are first being developed in partnership with The Citizens Campaign. These pioneering Citizen Leadership Centers are designed to pave the way for putting our nation’s 1,100 or so community colleges at the center of a new National Citizen Leadership Service that generates principled, pragmatic citizen leaders. The Harold Washington College Citizen Leadership Center will have three core components: (1) offering training in leadership and no-blame problem solving in one or more undergraduate courses; (2) offering citizen leadership training to the broader community via the college’s Center of Excellence; and (3) hosting a Civic Trust, where those who have completed the citizen leadership training work together in No-Blame Problem Solving sessions to better Chicago by searching for and advancing cost-effective, evidence based solutions. For more information, visit, www.thecitizenscampaign.org