The West Virginia Center for Civic Life is a nonpartisan organization promoting public engagement of citizens in important public issues throught the practices of deliberative democracy.  They engage in a broad spectrum of collaborative work primarily througth these three venues:

• Public Policy Institutes are intensive three day seminars focused on learning how to convene and moderate deliberative forums;
• Framing of Community Issues help groups create balanced, multi-perspective frameworks for community discussions of pressing issues;
• National Issues Forums is a national network of thousands of organizations that convene deliberative forums on crucial public issues.

Contact: 

Betty Knighton, Director

WV Center for Civic Life
2300 MacCorkle Ave., SE
Charleston, WV 25304

(304) 357-4729