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The Leadership Clinton County program is a constituent program and subsidiary of the Clinton County Economic Partnership.

heir communities for better opportunities and taking their talents, education, skills and wallets away with them. It remains a significant problem for most small communities, especially rural ones such as ours.

Prior to 1999, Clinton County stakeholders and leaders had been recognizing the growing need for leadership training in our community. At this time a noticeable trend started where people who had talents, skills and education were leaving t

In 1999, several community partners including the Clinton County Economic Partnership, the City of Lock Haven’s Federal Enterprise Community, the Penn State Cooperative Extension and dozens of other community stakeholders began to collaborate and ultimately created the program that endures today. The first began in 2000 with the inaugural class graduating 12 participants in 2001.

The program has evolved over, and undergone, some change these past 25 years but the core principles have remained unchanged:

1. Recognize their own leadership potential and identify the ways they may use their abilities to benefit their communities.
2. Develop networks among themselves and with other local leaders that will help them in their leadership roles.
3. Gain a deep understanding of Clinton County, and its challenges and opportunities. Develop an awareness of diverse institutions working in Clinton County to improve health, human services, education, economic and community development, natural resource management and the judicial system.
4. Gain the necessary skills to be successful leaders, such as effective group management and decision making, meeting management, conflict resolution, communications, fund-raising and working in teams.
5. Strengthen Clinton County’s working and living environment for current and future generations.

Leadership Clinton County (LCC), is an interactive program designed to develop leaders in our community. Many businesses take advantage of this program for their employees to develop leadership skills and become active community members that engage and network within our county.

During the 9-month long program, participants learn about a multitude of resources throughout Clinton County. At the start of the program in September, we have an opening retreat where participants learn about themselves, fellow classmates, and how to develop as a team.

Over the course of the program, participants engage with and have modules where they learn Public Speaking/Volunteer Board Participation, the History of Clinton County and its resources, Health & Human Services, Media and Public Relations, Law Enforcement, Local Government, Education, Economic Development and Agriculture. All of these modules are supported by excellent volunteer presenters and speakers with many of the sessions being hands-on tours of local facilities.

This program will provide you with experiences and new friends to last a lifetime. Once you graduate from the program, our Leadership Clinton County Alumni continues on the experience with their program and semi-regular meetings/socials.