| Community Development |
The Social Planning Council's Community Development program engages individuals and groups in processes which involve the conception, planning, and implementation of projects or activities to improve and expand vital social services, engage in long-term community planning and meet other local development needs. The Community Development team is involved in organizing meetings and conducting searches within the community to identify problems, identify assets, locate resources, analyze local decision making structures, assess human needs, and investigate other concerns that compromise our community's well being. |
| myCommunity Program |
This program is an initiative lead by the Social Planning Council of Sudbury in partnership with mysudbury.ca. It works with local and regional human service providers to maintain a comprehensive community services directory available online at mysudbury.ca, in print and on DVD by contacting the Social Planning Council of Sudbury. This bilingual and user-friendly directory offers valuable information about available programs and services throughout Northeastern Ontario. All services are offered at no charge to the agencies who participate. |
| Public Awareness and Education |
The Social Planning Council's Public Awareness and Education program utilizes a variety of materials including pamphlets and other literature, media presentations, speakers, workshops, directories, newsletters and outreach programs to make the community aware of the human service needs of the community, the resources that are available to meet those needs, and the issues which are relevant to specific social problems and the measures that have been proposed for their solution. |
| Research and Evaluation |
The Social Planning Council engages in research which involves defining, collecting, analyzing and reporting on social issues facing northern communities. Facilitating partnerships and mobilizing community resources are key to moving forward on identified issues. Evaluation activities include assisting organizations in evaluating their effectiveness, building capacity towards improved program delivery. |
| Social Inclusion of Youth |
Extensive community consultations lead to focussing resources towards the social inclusion of youth in their community and in their schools. When people feel included, overall health, whether physical, mental or emotional improves. "Together we will, piece by piece, remove those practices that keep us apart. And in our growing experience of connectedness we will experience hope, and our children will know that they belong...and that we need them." Sudbury Community Visioning participants, November 2002. To read more about this provincial project visit www.closingthedistance.ca |
| Social Policy Advocacy |
The Social Planning Council is engaged in a variety of initiatives whose primary focus is to affect social policy change. The Social Planning Council's role is to ensure that relevant social issues are identified and well represented in decision making processes. |
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