Wednesday March 10, 2010

Community News

Community Consultation Process

For the month of March, a Consultation Process is being undertaken with with Community. The initiative is derived from identified community needs and a provincial undertaking to promote new relationship building. The process will be facilitated by a team which includes Kelvin Morrison, Charlie Windego, and Drew Attwell. Direction will be given by the community throughout the project which will be reflected in the final outcomes/deliverables. In short, the process for consultation will be derived from the community input.

At the community level this translates to talking to members, ie Elders, Youth, Staff, Council and as a collective. This is a task which will seek to develop an approach for effective and efficient consulting whithin the community on issues, as well as define how we wish to consult and be consulted with regarding external processes. For example, a Community Consultation Process for issues such as hiring practices, board appointments etc. and external issues such as the resource law, our relationship with tribal agencies as well as Grand Council and others, including governments ect. Our work takes us out into the community and meeting with folks to get the job done; our main base is out of the Community Access (computer lab) building.

We are honored to assist with the initiative over the next month and look forward to meaningful and valuable input from everyone. Stay tuned for information, schedule of events, community meeting dates ect. as these become available.

Chi-Miigwetch