The Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education / L’Association Canadienne pour l'Étude de l'Éducation des Adultes CASAE/ACEEA Invites you to its Ontario Regional Conference “Great Expectations” and Competing Accountabilities: Challenges for Community Agencies Toronto, Friday, March 3, 2006 This conference will analyze the funding structures that are in place to support the work of community agencies. To what extent are these structures effective? To what extent do they limit the quality of programs and services offered by agencies? The conference is intended to bring together community agency staff, funders, policy makers, academics and activists who wish to explore issues of funding in relation to community agencies. By bringing together these groups, we hope the conference will illuminate the challenges that community agencies face in dealing with competing accountabilities, and the ways in which some community agencies and funders have addressed these challenges. During this conference the following questions will be addressed: How have accountability measures affected the work done by community agencies? Who is accountable to whom, for what and why? What does the web of accountability look like? How should service providers deal with pressures from different and sometimes competing constituencies like clients, funders, public at large and government? How can the role of agencies be reinforced as sites for participatory democracy, to help create an engaged citizenry? Who: This conference is for students and faculty in the field of community development, Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE) members, community agency staff, funders, government policy makers, unions, and foundations. When: Friday, March 3, 2006 from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. with a reception to follow at Siegfried’s Restaurant. Where: Financial Services Building, St. James Campus of George Brown College North side of Adelaide St. West., just west of Sherbourne Street How much: $10.00 Call for Titles and Abstracts (200 words): If you would like to present your answers to some of the questions posed above, please submit a title and abstract by Friday, November 25th to: Lynne Brennan, Community Worker Program, George Brown College, P.O. Box 1015, Sta. B, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 2T9 email: <[log in to unmask]> Submissions can be received either in print or as MSWord documents. This CASAE Regional Conference is being sponsored by the following: Community Worker Program, George Brown College CWP/GBC Centre for Community Services and Development CCSD Office of Academic Excellence, George Brown College OAE/GBC Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education CASAE/ACEEA Comparative, International and Development Education, within the Department of Adult Education and Counselling Psychology, CIDE - OISE/UT ____________________________ Linda Green, OISE/UT [log in to unmask] ------------------- Problems/Questions? Send it to Listserv owner: [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe, send the following message in the text section -- NOT the subject header -- to [log in to unmask] SIGNOFF SDOH DO NOT SEND IT BY HITTING THE REPLY BUTTON. THIS SENDS THE MESSAGE TO THE ENTIRE LISTSERV AND STILL DOES NOT REMOVE YOU. To subscribe to the SDOH list, send the following message to [log in to unmask] in the text section, NOT in the subject header. SUBSCRIBE SDOH yourfirstname yourlastname To post a message to all 1000+ subscribers, send it to [log in to unmask] Include in the Subject, its content, and location and date, if relevant. For a list of SDOH members, send a request to [log in to unmask] To receive messages only once a day, send the following message to [log in to unmask] SET SDOH DIGEST To view the SDOH archives, go to: https://listserv.yorku.ca/archives/sdoh.html