The Cochrane District Social Planning Council Announces the first Annual membership meeting on September 30th, 1:00-4:00 pm at the McIntyre Community Centre Ball Room, Timmins, – and invites community organizations and individuals to become participating members of the Council.
The Board of the Cochrane District Social Planning Council extends an invitation to individuals and/or organizations within the District to become members of the Council and to join us for our first Annual meeting. David Landers, the CDSPC President, points out that:
Our community based, District wide, research has highlighted the need for inter-organizational communication, coordination and collaboration, as articulated by stakeholders in the non-profit sector, as central to the goal of improving our collective social environment. The Council is envisioned as an independent non-governmental collaboration that will contribute to that goal and we extend an invitation to all individuals and organizations, who share our social mission, to join and participate.
Community organizations and individual members can join by logging onto the Council’s website at www.cdspc.org. The four Mayors, who have volunteered on the Council’s Board of Directors, agree that the organization should be membership driven and create opportunities for citizens and organizations to participate and ‘be at the table’ in the democratic process of building the community.
The Board has invited Dr. Carol Kauppi and Dr. Henri Pallard, Laurentian University, to present recent findings from the Poverty, Homelessness and Migration Project at the first Annual meeting.
The Cochrane District Social Planning Council completed its initial Ontario Trillium Foundation seed funding in May 2014 and is currently supported by various community partners. The founding Board of Directors was formed from community volunteers representing various sectors of the community including: municipalities (4), Cochrane District Social Services Administration Board (1) , a community social agency (1), social support agency (1), education/training (1), health (1), cultural sector (1), Francophone (1), Aboriginal (1), economic development (1), and members at large (2). The Board hired staff, produced a local contribution to the Social Assistance Review process, a Three Year Strategic Plan, a governance model draft (for presentation at the first Annual meeting), a Social Services Inventory methodology (of which the Mayor’s Town hall meeting series was an important part), a new Webpage, a Membership campaign, a Media campaign and taken on a number of community projects while partnering to support the Cochrane District Human Services and Justice Coordinating Committee and the Leadership Training Network. For a comprehensive listing of our activities see www.cdspc.org.
The CDSPC thanks the Ontario Trillium Foundation for its initial support of this project. For more information, and to RSVP for the annual meeting, please contact Rod Ryner at the Cochrane District Social Planning Council 705-360-5800 extension 228 or email [email protected] .
Rod Ryner, Regional Coordinator, CDSPC
