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Community Involvement Council Vision Session June 2004 - St. Marys
Six Key Themes emerged in response to this question: § Creating Vision § Promoting Best Practices § Support to each other § Point of information exchange § Value Based Leadership Development § Be a leader in Project Work § Influencing systemic change § Influencing Agencies § Influencing Community There was also some discussion on the viability of the CIC in terms of its existence ~ is it a useful and relevant group? Does decreasing attendance at meetings mean there isn’t a need for the group? There was agreement to move ahead with a fall ‘project’ and reassess based on the success of that. Short Term Follow Up Action (by Fall 2004) · Choose a ‘best practices’ project Two areas in particular need much attention: Deinstitutionalization and Citizenship. The group decided Citizenship should be the next focus. A session on this would include: § Presentation § Discussion about who’s doing what around the issue § Ways to Follow up Actions decided on: 1. Joe will check with Al and Gord, who did a session at Community Living Ontario to see if they will come and do a presentation in September 2. Target Invitations to ensure there is a good response Commitment to evaluate how the session went and if this is the best direction for the CIC to go in terms of being involved in an issue and bringing it forward for further exploration and work. Ideas on Purpose and Function of CIC over the next five years…
“Build it, they will come” One of the barriers is decreasing participation at CIC meetings. The group agreed that the meetings/sessions need to be seen as valuable (ie: sharing innovative and best practices, identifying ‘hot’ issues and follow up work)
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