Hello,

I hope some one can assist us with the following.

First a little background. A small group of agencies with the lead of local
social planning council in Kingston,Ontario have been successful in getting
the Chief Admin Officer of the city to incorporate a healthy community
approach in city's strategic plan. The city has a plan that was developed
with some community input but with the city trying to manage the
implementation itself it has lost the steam and energy. The city is
interested in regaining community ownership, and make the plan real living
process. We would like to build on the existing plan or start from scratch
if necessary.

As a first step we would like to define the need to harness community
interest, and we have concluded that we will start from Quality of Life
information. We have access to national data that will have to be translated
to local level, and then here is the critical part. We then want to use it
as baseline information and use the analysis to define current challenges
and project future challenges in the coming 5 to 10 years.Then comes the
process of popularizing the need and bringing together all stakeholders
including university, community agencies, health sector and the business
sector.

I am wondering if any one can assist us in either offering some names of
individuals or municipalities who have done this process or give us some
technical/political /planning assistance.Thank you.


Hersh Sehdev
Executive Director
North Kingston Community Health Centre
400 Elliott Avenue
Kingston, Ontario K7K 6M9
Phone: 613-542-2949
Fax:613-542-5486

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