Ben Warner 2009 PPMRN Conference

Last Updated: Tuesday, 03 February 2009

Citizen Engagement in Community Benchmarks: Lessons Learned from The Jacksonville Community Council

Friday, January 23, 2009 – 1:30 p.m.

Ben Warner

Ben Warner is the Deputy Director for Jacksonville Community Council Inc. (JCCI), a citizen-based public policy think tank in Jacksonville, Florida. The core work of JCCI is to engage citizens to improve the quality of life in Northeast Florida, and the organization accomplishes this through a community change model involving community-selected quality-of-life indicators, open discussions and community studies around issues identified by the indicators, citizen-led advocacy efforts to create positive change based on study recommendations, and continued progress monitoring through the indicators efforts. Before joining JCCI in 1998, Warner worked in the mental health field, where he directed day treatment programs for dually-diagnosed (mental illness/developmentally disabled) individuals in Northeast and Central Florida. He also worked with homelessness issues, developing a highly successful pilot transitional housing program. For his work with homelessness, Warner was awarded the Michael R. Wilson Social Justice Award in 1997.

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