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St. Michel is one of Montreal’s oldest suburbs. Since 2004, Vivre St. Michel en Santé (for a Healthy St. Michel) has employed an innovative urban and social revitalization strategy that has rebranded a neighbourhood once known for its high crime rates and lack of services into one that is known for its active and unified citizens and coordinated action. Particularly innovative are the processes used build “community” among a transient, diverse and largely immigrant population. Vivre St. Michel en Santé takes an integrated approach involving citizens, community organizations, donors and government offices. Collectively, their efforts have helped residents, with its mix of new immigrants, experience a better quality of life in the areas of art, culture, housing, security, health, sports, leisure, transportation and access to services.

Join us on Thursday, March 6, 2014, 1-2 pm ET (noon - 1 pm CT) when Brianne Peters and Jean Panet-Raymond present this Citizen-Led Sustainable Change webinar on an innovative urban and social revitalization strategy.

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Jean Panet-Raymond talks about some of the factors that have contributed to the success of his organization.

Other resources

• Humility and Audacity: The story of Vivre Saint Michel en
  Santé, Montreal, Québec
• Reducing poverty in Montreal, QC - Vibrant Communities Canada (2012-09-28)

Event Contact

Deb Markley
Center for Rural Entrepreneurship
919-932-7762
deb@e2mail.org
http://ruralwealth.org/page/webinars-1

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• Are you interested in seeing how Northern remote rural communities can remain sustainable through innovation?
• Are you interested in exploring new trends in regional collaboration, both horizontal and vertical?
• Are you interested in exploring how communities, the Federal and Provincial governments, NGOs, universities and others can collaborate to enhance regional development?
• Are you curious about collaborative opportunities between the Quebec Lower North Shore and the Labrador Straits region?

This interactive event will feature presentations about the most recent trends in regional development as well as opportunities to engage with local stakeholders, policy advisors, academic researchers and other knowledgeable and interested persons. A fuller program will be available shortly. And, of course, we will make sure to include cultural and heritage activities as part of the program! If you’re into regional development in rural and remote communities, this event is for you! Please make sure to reserve the date for this exciting workshop!

The language of the conference will be English.

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The organizing committee is composed of representatives of:

• Réseau de Développement Économique et d’Employabilité de Terre-Neuve et du Labrador (RDÉE TNL)
• Corporation d’employabilité et de développement économique communautaire (CÉDEC)
• Memorial University of Newfoundland
• Concordia University
• Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation (CRRF)
• SmartLabrador
• Municipalité Régional de Comté (MRC) du Golfe St-Laurent
• Leading English Education and Resource Network (LEARN Quebec)

Visitors from outside the region should consider adding two days for travel in addition to the workshop days, one day before and one after the workshop. The region is well served by Provincial Airlines and ferry from the Island of Newfoundland. Visitors may also want to add some days for touring the region either before or after the workshop.

For more information or to register, please contact Christophe Caron (RDÉE TNL, 709-726-5974, dg@rdeetnl.ca) or Allen Richards (CEDEC, 450-264-5510, allen.richards@cedec.ca).

Co-ops 101 is BCCA's introduction to co-operatives and the co-op movement. Designed to be relevant and interesting everyone from new co-operators, employees at co-ops and credit unions, or anyone interested in the co-op movement, it's an excellent way to learn more about co-ops. This event will be held by webinar only; participants will require an internet connection and telephone.

Start co-operating.

Learn about co-op business basics.

• The co-op development path
• Assessing a business idea
• Feasibility and business planning
• The nuts and bolts of starting a co-op
• Support and assistance from the BCCA and the co-op sector

Access co-op developmeent support.

Attend by webinar.

Registration information.

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Whether it is developing a food program for youth and seniors, creating a skatepark, saving a lighthouse, or addressing gender violence in schools, this program will provide you with the skills to effectively undertake community development efforts in your town, school or neighbourhood. 

This program is a complement to the ASPIRE and DPC (Dialogue for Peaceful Change)  programs – to allow more extensive in-depth theory and practice. We will explore the role of communication, how to know what your group or community wants or needs, and what the elements are key for effective and sustainable community development.  There will be an opportunity to practice, assess and apply tools such as Appreciative Inquiry, Open Space Technology, world café (and others) and explore how they apply in community development contexts.

We will explore theories on social change and develop our analysis as to how to leverage power, mobilize resources, build momentum and effect change. There will be time for discussions, dialogue and storytelling around power and privilege, getting stuck and dealing with resistance, the use of creativity, and nitty gritty elements such as how to organize and facilitate good meetings. And you will have an opportunity to develop plans for the community development project you care about most. 

Program Cost: $730 ($338 tuition+$392 meals/accommodations)

Local Price: $495 (program cost without overnight, without breakfast)

Please register at least 2 weeks in advance to secure your place in this program

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Leadership

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You’ve sent out a survey and the responses from your clients are pouring in. How can you interpret them? How can you identify which impacts you were responsible for when other organizations are also involved? What about things that would have happened anyway? This workshop will help you sort through those tricky questions and develop indicators of success that you can get behind. It will show you how to set up your data in an Excel model that can make the calculations for you, help you understand what conclusions you can and cannot draw from your data, and provide some suggestions for telling your story effectively.

This is Part 3 of a 3-workshop series that will run on March 26, April 2nd, and April 9th in the boardroom at the CSC Office at 25 Anderson Avenue in St. John's. Click here to learn about all of them. The registration link will allow you to register for all 3.

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You know your organization is creating change for people or the community. You probably have a good idea how that change is being made.  There is another key question, though: how much change is actually happening? This workshop will equip you with the tools to measure it through surveys and interviews. It will help you go beyond typical survey questions that capture outputs (“15 people contacted”) or impressions (“The session was very good”) and instead measure outcomes (“Participants were twice as confident after completing the program” or “half of our participants made it into employment”).  Through the application of examples from across Newfoundland and Labrador, this workshop will help you map out a strategy to get the data you need.

This is Part 2 of a 3-workshop series that will run on March 26, April 2nd, and April 9th. Click here to learn about all of them. The registration link will allow you to register for all 3.