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MAKING A PLAN:

OUR JOURNEY OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

BY THE NUMBERS

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People engaged in facilitated People engaged at 34 booths People came through our
discussions including family dinners, throughout the community Open Houses to provide
organization sessions, youth events comments on drafts
and priority focus groups

OTHER COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INITIATIVES THAT INFORMED THIS PROCESS
Many different community engagement initiatives were previously held or were ongoing in the community. The Community
Plan Team partnered with the agencies facilitating these engagements to share information without having to re-ask the same
or similar questions to people that had already been engaged on. Redundant engagement can be exhaustive on community
members who feel they are repeating themselves, and can drain energy and resources from organizations. The engagements we
drew from included:

• Past community plan update efforts in 2016/17 – included booths, surveys, and input forms from organizations
• Lifelong Learning Taskforce – engaged students and educators around what a Six Nations community based education
approach could and should look like
• Elders Journey – a year long engagement series directed by Health Services which engaged elders on a variety of topics
• Sparking the Fire – an engagement led by Youth Life Promotions to coordinate community efforts around youth engagement
and life promotion
• Farm and Food Survey – survey facilitated by the Six Nations Farmers Association to gather community input on food security
and agriculture
• Community department and organization input – many organizations/departments in the community have plans in place
for what projects/programs they have implemented or will implement in the future.

MANAGING INFORMATION
The Community Plan Team gathered information in many forms including sticky notes and “lateral kindness tree” leaves at
booths, conversations and written comments. High level vision and context statements were compiled through a qualitative
analysis to describe community sentiment towards the variety of community priorities. For specific concerns, challenges, solutions
and actions, analysis focused on recurring themes to formulate the 34 community goals. This analysis matched community input
with input from departments/organizations and illustrated many points of alignment between department/organization initiatives
and community goals, while also highlighting some gaps where community members wanted to see growth.

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