Empowering change

Several members of local community nonprofit groups participated in the School of Education's Second Annual SPEC Conference last Monday on the University of Miami's Coral Gables campus. School of Education Dean Isaac Prilleltensky addressed the group during a morning session, at which five nonprofits that are participating in the SPEC project discussed future strategies to improve their organizations from within. SPEC is a model that attempts to promote strength-based, preventive, empowering, and community change practice in human services.