Community Planning through Visioning and Strategy Development

(1 -2 Years)

The community planning phase focuses on engaging diverse groups in a comprehensive visioning and strategy development process. The core activities are:

Community Outreach/Civic Engagement: Doing effective outreach and organizing to involve constituency groups in formulating a comprehensive strategy for community change and implementing a public education program on community building and neighborhood revitalization.

Infrastructure Development: Providing leadership training to effectively engage residents in community planning and mapping organizational assets as part of the planning process.

Relationship Building: Initiating a long-term process of cross-cultural bridge-building through community planning, multi-cultural dialogue and cultural events; and promoting inter-agency communications and networking.

Community Development: Implementing an inclusive, culturally-based planning process including visioning and goal-setting; program development; resource planning and partner identification.

Organizing and Advocacy: Sharing stories about community life for purposes of issue and strategy identification and conducting an environmental scan for community mapping.

Community Research and Evaluation: Compiling community stories, conducting an environmental scan and doing community mapping.

Social Change Indicators:

• Community Participation
• Leadership Training Activities
  
• Multi-Cultural Communication
  
• Community Planning Process/Products
  
• Environmental Scan/Asset Map
  

Go To PHASE: 1 2 3 4 RETURN