On August 13, 2013 the Calgary community talked about supports for people with disabilities. Many people from all over the province came to talk about envisioning our future.
We invite you to take a look at the working document and comment about what you think. (Link to PDF report)
Individuals, families, disability service
providers, representatives of the Alberta Human Services Ministry, and allies
in other sectors (e.g., health, homelessness) participated. Although most
participants were from the Calgary area, others came from Edmonton, Lethbridge and the North East region.
Participants focused on three questions:
- Vision – What values are most important to us in our services, our supports and our community? What’s our dream for people with disabilities.
- Process – How do we want to work together to create/plan for our services, our supports and our community? How do we want to make decisions and plans?
- Action – What do we need to do over the next year to address key areas of concern? 8 tables formed. We have organized notes from the 8 tables into tabs on the blog. By no means are these tables number by priority. The 8 tables were:
-Then the Participants’ vision for the future and the
process to make decisions and plans were documented and organized into themes.
-Key issues flowing from these themes were identified for small group discussion
and action plans in the afternoon.
-Organized notes for all discussions are in
the appendix in the working document.
We want to thank all the people who came and participated.
Thank you to all the facilitators and to the people behind the scenes who spent many hours pulling all our ideas together.
If you have any questions or would like to learn more about the day, please email us at envsionfuturealberta@gmail.com
What are the next steps?
We have provided a working document for you to provide ideas, feedback and what might be missing. We invite you to comment right on the website or send us what you think in another format.
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