Welcome to the New Public Affairs Training Web Site

This site is designed to help public affairs councils, including their priesthood advisers, to better understand Church public affairs service and achieve greater public affairs success.

On this site you will find many new resources and tools to help you in your work. New resources will be added often, so be sure to check back frequently. Current resources include:

• A video welcome message from Elder M. Russell Ballard, chairman of the Church Public Affairs Committee.
• A new section designed specifically for priesthood advisers to public affairs council.
• A new section for building relationships with the media.
• A new section on developing relationships with leaders from other faiths.
• A resource library including:
  • Hundreds of photographs that can be downloaded and freely used in public affairs activities and materials.
  • Dozens of Church videos that can be downloaded and freely used for public affairs purposes.
  • Document templates to help you easily create localized and Church-approved materials for use in your area.
  • Mormon Helping Hands Program Guidelines and logos in many languages.
  • Guidelines for conducting chapel open houses, Family Values Award programs and Dinners for Ten.
• Regular features about Church public affairs activities and successes around the world.
• News Watch, a password-only section where instruction and materials will be posted to help public affairs councils respond to difficult questions and situations (LDS account password and stake approval required) .

We hope you find this new site useful and a blessing to the public affairs work in your area. Your continued feedback will help improve the site even further.