Become A Circle Leader

About Circle Leaders

Circle Leaders are highly motivated individuals who seek self-sufficiency. Leaders set goals in the areas of budgeting, education, and networking, taking time to build a support system that helps them achieve their goals.

Leadership training and meeting attendance encourages Circles Leaders to work hard and improve their communication skills. Being a Circles Leader means you are determined to be independent - moving to a place where you have enough resources and connections in your life to feel successful.

Primary Goals of the Circle Leader

1. Create life changes that lead to permanent self-sufficiency for you and your family.

2. Use your experience of poverty to advocate within the community for changes in the systems’ barriers that keep poverty in place.

The Circle Leader Commitment

• Complete the 12-15 week Circle Leader Training.

• Join with two to three Allies, working closely together for 12 months or more,  attending weekly meetings that offer an opportunity to interact with the community.

• Actively contribute to the Circles community and the surrounding community, finding ways to give back to both.

• Make progress toward the goals you identify to increase your resources and reach self-sufficiency.

Circle Leaders Receive the Following Support

• Circle Leader Training.

• Two to three caring Allies to join you in your journey to self-sufficiency.

• Weekly meetings where free meals and childcare are provided.

• Access to information about a variety of community resources.

• Circles staff assistance for questions, support, and conflict resolution.

Weekly Meetings

• Every Tuesday at 6:00 p.m.

• First Presbyterian Church of Sylva

  • 46 Presbyterian Drive, Sylva, NC, 28779.

• Free meals and childcare are provided.