Didsbury is leaping forward with the plans for their ACE initiative. Essentially, they will be focusing on three components:
-communication, which includes the two way communication between organizations and the community as well as communication and collaboration between organizations
-youth, which includes consistent and safe places, reliable mentorship and varied activities such as sports, arts, cooking, lifeskills, leadership, etc.
-volunteerism
Currently, they are developing a survey via survey monkey to determine what mechanisms the community is using to communicate and to discover if they are missing key mechanisms that the community would prefer, such as community event signage.
They also have a new collaboration between the town and a local youth serving organization. There are many exciting ideas and opportunities in this collaboration.
They also have a new commitment from the town to support a web based volunteer bank once it is established. They are proposing a contract position for the creation of the volunteer bank and for training town staff in the maintenance of the bank.
Way to go Didsbury! Can't wait to see how it unfolds....
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