Moving Beyond Celebrating Culture Meaningful Contributions · Diversity Mixed bag, hodgepodge,...
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We live in times where we need everyone’s strengths, talents and skills to find, create and protect home.
Moving Beyond Celebrating Culture Meaningful Contributions
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Why We Are Here?Symposium:
A drinking party, a convivial meeting for drinking, conversation and intellectual entertainment.
A meeting or conference for discussion of some subject; hence a collection of opinions delivered by a number of people on a special topic.
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Diversity
Mixed bag, hodgepodge, medley
To render, be, or grow diverse
The inclusion of individuals representing more than one national origin, color, religion, socioeconomic stratum, sexual orientation, etc.
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We Are Here To…Participate in a convivial meeting for drinking,intellectual entertainment to share our opinionsabout how to include and grow the mixedbag/medley of individuals in our neighbourhoods,our cities, our home.
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Topics and Tools
Tips and Strategies to:
1. Create meaningful grassroots initiatives
2. Build intercultural relationships and connections
3. Foster collaboration amongst community partners
Case Study Lessons Learned Sustainability Tools
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Case StudyFinding Home: How To Belong In A Changing World
Finding Home is a strength based community capacity building process that generates resident-led self organizing projects to address a community’s priority social issue.
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The Finding Home Approach Arnold Toynbee
Strengths-based Quality RelationshipsWorldviews & Values Belonging
Place-based Community decides priority issues Capacity-building & Collaboration
Human Dignity Human Capacity Human Potential
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A Neighbourhood-Based Approach
We have worked with all communities… Elders, Youth, Families Indigenous, Newcomers & Canadian Born People living with disabilities LGTB
On their priority challenge… Newcomer Integration Poverty, Housing Elder Financial Abuse Isolation & loneliness, etc..
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Outcomes and BenefitsResidents Personal transformation; increased connection to community Residents-led self organizing projects such as:
Youth & Elders Mapping ProjectConversation CafesHousing (Inclusive, affordable)
OrganizationsIdentify needs & strengths for programming & service improvement; volunteer leadership development; intercultural cohesion.CommunitiesCivic engagement, intercultural cohesion and community wide collaboration to address priority social issues.Government: identify emerging trends for making better decisions.
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3 LESSONSListen to People and Act on What We Hear
1. Listen to people with lived experience
1. Listen for opportunities
1. Listen to each other
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Lesson #1: Listen To PeopleELDER FINANCIAL ABUSE & AWARENESS PROJECT
It started with listening to Elders share their stories about what makes home and whatthey care about most…
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Lesson #1: Listen To PeopleThe Invitation
• Bi-cultural / bilingual• Fables• Leadership
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Lesson #1: Listen To PeopleOnce Convened
We listen to
What creates Home & what they care most about
Their thinking about Root Causes, including values at stake
Their Ideas for addressing the root cause
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Home is where people respect, honour and listen to you. Love is the foundation.
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From Selfishness to Kindness & Caring
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SEED PROJECTSSouth Asian Punjabi Finding Home™ Dialogue Group
• Sisters and Daughters Day – New South Asian Punjabi Ceremony• Storybook on Kindness & Caring• South Asian Punjabi Skits and Presentations
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We make home with laughter, passion and honesty with each other. If there is no love,
passion and interest then our house is like a shelter and is not a home.
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Elder Respect in the Family
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SEED PROJECTS
Afghan Puppet ShowInstitutionalized Elder Financial Abuse Awareness
Afghan Finding Home™ Dialogue Group
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When the sense of home grows within each of us, it will affect all of humanity.
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EMPOWERMENT
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SEED PROJECTS
• Victims To Champions Speakers Bureau• Tips on Personal Power For Seniors• Video Project
North Shore Finding Home™ Dialogue Group
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Lesson #2: Listen For OpportunitiesBuild on Strengths & Address Needs
We Show We Heard By:
Visual Materials Connect to Community Resources Building leadership capacity
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Lesson #2: Listen For OpportunitiesConnect To Community
Celebrating Success
Inter-Agency & Seniors Planning Tables
Project launches
Media
Within 1.5 years over 2.5 million reached
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Lesson #2: Listen for OpportunitiesMeaningful cross-cultural engagement
Iranian River Party
Mah-Jong & Bingo
Musqueam 101 and Salsa Dancing
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Lesson #3: Listen To Each OtherLeverage Strengths
Working Together Elders’ Council Working Group Leadership Training 3 Elder Dialogue Groups
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Partners Working Together Leveraging Strengths
Elders Neighbourhood Houses: ANHBC, SVNH, NSN, JBCC, Settlement sector: ISSBC, Mosaic Seniors Sector: BC CEAS,BC ACRN, Public Guardian &Trustees Community Policing Vancouver Coastal Health Elementary Schools Post Secondary Institutions Toastmasters; Arts Health &Seniors Project United Way of the Lower Mainland Province of British Columbia Federal Government (HRSDC)
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Scaling Up Project Sustainability Tools
We Listened:
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We HeardKeys To Success
1. Understand Resources Needed
2. Readiness Assessment
3. Internal Team
4. Community Partnership Model
5. Community Wide Change Approach
6. Reconciliation Tool
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Understand Resources Needed
When all the staff, volunteer time, space, food, printing, interpretation & translation and recognition are accounted for, the host agency and partnerships need to commit
$12,500 to support the convening and subsequent emerging leadership in elders-led initiatives like Finding Home.
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Readiness AssessmentSupporting elders’ capacity building programs requires
organizational and community capacity
Necessary Ingredients for Anchor Organizations:
Resources (cost projection tool)
Active seniors program with at least one dedicated program staff
Volunteer & transportation program
Internal Champion & Community Champion
Community Partnerships
Strength based values & ethos
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Sample Internal Team
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Community Partnership Model
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Elders-Led Community Change Model1. Readiness Self Assessment
2. Get Started (internal team, partnerships, data collection tools, etc.)
3. Prepare for Seniors/Elders’ Dialogues
4. Elders’ Dialogues
5. Elders Take Action
6. Data Collection
7. Cross-Cultural Training for Front Line Workers
8. Celebrating Success
9. Final Report & Dissemination
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Reconciliation Tool
“The Finding Home Program is one of the best approaches I know of. It builds that sense of belonging and inclusion for everyone, laying the foundational building block for reconciliation on the political and economic levels.”
~ Chief Robert Joseph,Gwa Gwa Enuk First Nations,
Reconciliation Ambassador
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MORE TOOLS
Host Agency Handbook
Community of Practice
Digital Resources
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3 Lessons In SummaryListen to People and Act on What We Hear
1. Listen to people with lived experience
1. Listen for opportunities
1. Listen to each other
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MUNICIPAL APPROACH
City of Surrey’s Seniors Volunteer Engagement Strategy
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Your TurnTurn to two of your neighbours and discuss:
How can the Finding Home approach and / or the sustainability tools created help you achieve your organization’s / community’s goals?
What is one action you can commit to towards this goal of finding and creating home in our neighbourhoodsand cities?
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What’s Next
Roadblocks To Home: Community Led or Tyranny of the Loudest?
More Workshops….