What is Our Future Hamilton Community Vision?
Hamilton is a beautiful city with many opportunities for employment, education, entertainment and other activities, but it still has so much to improve upon. The City of Hamilton decided to create an in depth future vision for its residents consisting of various factors such as a goal, mission, culture and priorities to improve our city. The plan is called “Our Future Hamilton Community Vision and was created by city councillors and citizens. It is specifically designed for residents with the main vision of being “the best place to raise a child and age successfully”. Who was involved in shaping this plan? Why is it important?
There were many people who truly cared about the future of Hamilton
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Although Vision 2020 did help our community, there were still many spots left for improvement which is why in 2015-2016, residents were asked questions again to create our current shared community vision, “Our Future Hamilton Community Vision”.
Our Future Hamilton is the largest, broadest, and most inclusive public engagement initiative ever organized by the City of Hamilton. In other words, residents can fully express their thoughts and with an increasing number, approximately 55 000 residents have already done so.
There are many ways for the residents of Hamilton to be actively involved and informed for the Our Future Hamilton Community Vision; online at the Our Future Hamilton website, vision cards, community events such as festivals, broad and inclusive participation, online surveys, project presentations, engagement in a bag, and open houses. Our Future Hamilton Community Vision and the City of Hamilton’s 10-year Strategic Plan are two separate plans, but have similar goals and the same vision of making Hamilton the best
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With the major help of citizens, we can accomplish a much brighter future for Hamilton. There are numerous ways citizens can help make Hamilton a better city, especially by fulfilling the needs for priority three (Healthy and Safe Communities). For example, citizens can buy local, nutritious products, lead active lifestyles (even going out for a walk is considered active), or by supporting someone you know that has a problem with drugs, smoking or alcohol. Along with priority three, citizens can also contribute to the other five priorities by browsing through hamilton.ca as it states all key directions or ideas that we can follow. Additionally, hamilton.ca selects a “community champion of the month” where you have the opportunity to earn cool prizes such as tickets to sporting events or passes to Hamilton Civic Museums simply by sharing your story of what you are doing to make the vision a reality. Not to mention, you can join your organization with Hamilton to also share what you are doing to help make our community better, as well as gain public recognition and receive a signed certificate from Mayor Fred Eisenberger. If every single citizen incorporated one task in their life everyday to make Hamilton a better city, whether the task is big or small, Hamilton will be one step closer to
The community commitment is maintaining the high quality of life that exists in the community.
In Rhoda Halperin’s Practicing Community: Class, Culture, and Power in an Urban Neighborhood, over six years of anthropological research was conducted in the East End community of Cincinnati, Ohio. This book presented how East Enders were wanting to preserve their community as it was subjected to sudden changes, such as urban and economic developments. Halperin included narratives and viewpoints from various East Enders in order to voice the community and their concerns, additionally allowing readers to envision how the community was progressing through the variations of development. In conclusion of reading Practicing Community, I was able to fully understand how topics learned in class correlated with the purpose of the book.
According to Allender, Rector, and Warner (2014), public health is a combination of both an art and a science (2014). The mission of public health nursing is to promote health, prevent disease and ultimately prolong life (Allender et al., 2014). In order for this to occur an assessment must take place. An aggregate or community assessment begins with a collection of data. This includes: the community’s health needs, risks, environmental conditions, financial resources through local census data, and a windshield survey (Allender et al., 2014). Through public health nursing, communities can collectively come together to help promote an overall better health standing.
Tim Horton’s field lies in the middle of an area that used to be Hamilton’s biggest job and economic provider. Throughout the years Hamilton has been
Community is like a Venn diagram. It is all about relations between a finite group of people or things. People have their own circles and, sometimes, these circles overlap one another. These interceptions are interests, common attitudes and goals that we share together. These interceptions bond us together as a community, as a Venn diagram. A good community needs good communication where people speak and listen to each other openly and honestly. It needs ti...
could learn and mimic, BCAPI was successfully able to “… found Partners Assisting Local Schools, an ambitious business-community schools partnership that has been implemented in seven inner-city schools; collaboration in establishing a residence and support program for homeless pregnant and parenting youth; facilitating the development of 100 new affordable housing units annually and the development of a housing strategy for Saint John; partnering in the establishment of The Resource Centre for Youth (TRC) a one-stop centre to engage teens in positive recreation, education, employment, health and community involvement experiences; partnerships to establish an alternative high school and daycare for teen parents and to support for adult literacy and GED preparation; and job-creation for people living in poverty. The implementation of the 3-year strategy enabled the city to exceed its targets and help more than 2000 local people move out of poverty. Saint John’s 10 year poverty trend has dropped from 27% (1996) to 20.8% (2006) and the number of children in poverty has been reduced from 35% to 28%” (Bell, 2009, p. 10 -
As an individual within a greater community, I know that I am just one piece to the whole. Each individual person within a community makes up one part of the entire thing. It is each individual’s actions that make that community what it is. In every community that I am in, I am an active member who cares about each member. I want the best for my community and will do whatever I can to make it a positive atmosphere for everyone. Community is such an important aspect in life, and everyone should be able to have the chance to experience
We have an abundance of historic buildings, and an attractive and accessible waterfront that is underused. It also feels like the powers to be just want the town to stay the same. The more a community comes to look just like every other small town the less reason there is for anyone to visit. All we need is to implement a small number of new ideas in Carleton Place. They could make a big difference in this community.
QUESTION ONE: Chapter 12 discusses the issue of police discretion and community relations. There are 8 main issues raised by the authors. Describe the highlights of the issues.
Main Point: The problems in our community are great and affect us all in one way or another.
Community engagement is now a priority in many public sector agencies. Besides appealing to democratic principles, citize...
Commitment to community is a requirement for contemporary Americans and vital to its survival. “Love thy neighbor as thyself” is the unselfish act of sharing: from a cup of sugar to a wealth of information to the guardianship of all children involved and the protection of every individual in that said community. Whether that community consists of the “Classic Neighborhood, those with a common set of goals, or those who share a common identity” the thread that holds this matrix together is always woven into the shared identity as well as responsibility of all involved. (Redmond, 2010). A community cannot continue to exist through the will of withdrawn individuals who arms only embrace themselves and have no involvement whatsoever with neighbors one door away.
Vision and mission statements play a vital role in the strategic planning of an organization. Aguinis (2013) states defining an organization’s current and future identity are a key component of the strategic planning process. Strategic planning creates a blueprint to chart an organization’s goals and to aid in the division of resources to properly achieve the established goals (Aguinis, 2013). Properly communicating the goals and identity of an organization are essential if employees are to completely understand their purpose and mission to the organization. A review of the vision and mission statements for Harley Davidson reflects certain insights into the identity of the organization but also reflects some areas of improvement in adequately including the eight characteristics of an ideal mission statement.
Frequently however, issues arise amongst a community that need attention. In this essay I will outline and discuss some of these issues and the interventions, projects or programmes designed and used to tackle and combat them. The three models of intervention or, ‘Community Development’, I will discuss in this essay, "Social Planning", "Community Development", and "Social/Community Action", all have the same aim regardless of how it is accomplished and this is to improve and maintain the conditions which affect the lives of the community.