Washington, D.C. – The Rural Neighborhood Assistance Partnership (RCAP) has partnered with the Smithsonian Institution on a new initiative, “Coming Dwelling: Stories from Most important Road.”

Coming Residence is a collaboration amongst RCAP’s Rural Homecoming software and the Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Road system that aims to incorporate younger voices in the potential of rural America. Coming Dwelling empowers youthful men and women to use stories and digital technologies to understand about their communities, doc area background, and foster critical discussions about their community’s long run, top to alternatives for nearby youth to develop into storytellers on behalf of their community. 

Rural communities can participate in Coming Home in two approaches. Communities can celebrate RCAP’s Rural Homecoming to reconnect with their hometown by downloading a no cost toolkit furnishing communications and social media toolkits, and function suggestions to assist notify tales driven by their community communities. 

Communities can also take part in Coming Residence by making use of to be a Coming Household local community by the Museum on Most important Avenue program. As a result of the aggressive process, communities who are picked will perform with youthful people in their group to build movie jobs centered on telling the community’s tales, previous, present and upcoming.