Community Planning With Heart
"Jessie, words cannot express our thanks. You did a wonderful, amazing, brilliant job. More than ever, I am in awe of your skills, approach, authenticity, honesty + inner beauty!"
"You are inspiring! Your passion, energy and genuine nature put people at ease and bring out their very best..."
"Well done! You live up to your reputation."
"When you asked the question who is your leader? My leader is YOU! You are an amazing wonderful woman. You inspire me to keep going in the CCP process..."
"You are inspiring! Your passion, energy and genuine nature put people at ease and bring out their very best..."
"Well done! You live up to your reputation."
"When you asked the question who is your leader? My leader is YOU! You are an amazing wonderful woman. You inspire me to keep going in the CCP process..."
Many First Nations are working on comprehensive community plans (CCPs) to help bring the diverse voices within the community together to articulate a shared vision and ideas for reaching that vision. I have had the pleasure of coordinating a three-year CCP for my own community (the Gwa'sala-'Nakwaxda'xw Nations) and mentoring many other First Nations across Canada with their community plans.
I specialize in building up the skill level of the in-community planning coordinator/team, with a focus on increasing community engagement, creating effective and innovative communication strategies, and using the community planning process as an opportunity to strengthen relationships and trust within the community. I love to help people come up with their own fun, creative ideas for community planning, and I share ideas on my blog.
I can help in the following areas:
I specialize in building up the skill level of the in-community planning coordinator/team, with a focus on increasing community engagement, creating effective and innovative communication strategies, and using the community planning process as an opportunity to strengthen relationships and trust within the community. I love to help people come up with their own fun, creative ideas for community planning, and I share ideas on my blog.
I can help in the following areas:
- Providing CCP orientation to community members, staff, and/or leadership
- Creating a funding proposal, workplan and budget for your CCP or CCP update
- Helping you create and distribute the perfect job postings for the CCP Coordinator/Assistant positions
- Interviewing, hiring and training your CCP staff
- Creating a communication and community engagement strategy to bring your CCP process to life
- Creating a project-specific website and/or social media presence, if appropriate
- Training your staff in facilitation, community engagement and communications
- Facilitating community, staff and leadership meetings, while doing hands-on facilitation training with your staff
- Writing project updates and newsletter articles
- Creating surveys, and training your staff to create/implement surveys
- Analysing the results of community meetings and surveys to help write your CCP's goals/objectives/vision in keeping with what the community wants
- Working with your community members to incorporate your unique culture into your CCP
- Creating a beautiful, easy-to-understand, easy-to-use, totally unique CCP document for your community
- Writing final reports for funders