What's Working in Community Development Conference June 2008

Conference Follow Up

• Please join us in appreciating our Conference Sponsors. They were very generous in helping this event come alive. Please follow the link above to view the names of the sponsors and to access their individual websites.

• Heartwood Centre for Community Youth Development supported the youth who participated in the conference. For more information about Heartwood, please follow the link above.

• Ron Hayes from ArtCan Gallery & Cafe in Canning, Nova Scotia, facilitated the celebrating community collage at the conference. To learn more about Ron's work, please follow the above link.

• The video Drop in on us was shown during the conference opening. This video was provided by Nova Scotia Come to Life and is available on their website - please follow the link above.

• The video of Iguanadon's welcome and message is available here. Special thanks to Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia for Iguanadon's participation, and to Michael Bawtree for lending his voice to the welcome. To view this video, you may require QuickTime Player which is available by following this link: QuickTime Player. This video may take a few minutes to open so please be patient.

• Horizons commissioned Two Planks and a Passion Theatre Company to write the script for the Community Development Storytime Theatre presentation and work with our fantastic volunteers to prepare it for the conference. You can download the script here.

• Nova Scotia's Health Promotion Clearinghouse compiled a comprehensive and annotated resource list on Community Development & Community Capacity Building which you can access here. We encourage you to check out the rest of the HPC website!

• The Genuine Progress Index (GPI) Atlantic Report Ron Colman presented is available on GPIAtlantic's website. Check out the other fascinating reports there!

• If you are interested, please visit the international webpage about the Raging Grannies. You can join the e-vine that gives updates about various events throughout Canada and the United States. As well, you can read about the origins of the Raging Grannies in a book by Carole Roy, who was also a presenter at the conference.

• Closing reflections by Stewart Murdoch, IACD Treasurer, are accessible through this link.

• A post conference reflection by Tammy Martin, one of our youth participants is shared here.

• The Conference Evaluation Summary is available here. Also available are the full Conference Evaluation Results.

• Please visit www.forestersana.com.au for information about the 2009 conference in Brisbane, Australia!

• Your conference registration included a one-year membership to IACD (unless you specified otherwise).For information about IACD please visit their website. The newly re-launched website includes spaces for blogs and discussion forums, and will be used to consult members when IACD is developing position papers for consultations with the United Nations, the World Health Organization, and the International Labour Organization. We encourage you to share your perspectives with IACD and with other community development workers and thinkers around the world.

• Conference photos are available at by clicking here.

• Our 2009 day planner entitled "Celebrating Communities Around the World" will be available in September. It features images from the celebrating community squares people created for the conference, and at its heart are the stories from the abstracts submitted for the conference. If you would like to order a copy of the dayplanner, please download the Day Planner Order Form. Proceeds from the sales of the 2009 day planner will go to IACD.

• We have a few conference t-shirts left! If you would like to purchase a memento from your visit to Wolfville and the "What's Working in Community Development" conference, please contact admin@horizonscda.ca The t-shirts are $15 CDN.

Conference Presentations

Conference presentations that we have received electronically are listed and available below:

• Key Strategies to Thrive During Times of Change and Chaos presented by Marjorie Willison of Chebucto Communities Development Association.

• Examining Linkages Between Community Economic Development Practices and Economic Growth in Rural Manitoba presented by Ruth Mealy of Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives.

• Nova Scotia Community Counts - Using Data for Sustainable Community Development presented by Malcolm Shookner of the Nova Scotia Department of Finance.

• What is Right? What is Just? What is for the Public Good? presented by Monique Mullins-Roberts of The Public Good Society of Dartmouth.

• Health Research Process in African Nova Scotian Communities - Using the Africentric Philosophy presented by Phyllis Marsh-Jarvis & Anna Jacobs of the Health Association of African Canadians.

• Linking the Individual & the Community: Understanding Occupational Therapists' Approaches to Community Development presented by Heidi Lauckner, Queen's University/Dalhousie University.

• A Community Works Together to Provide Integrated Services to At-Risk Populations presented by Jill Cristensen & Joanne MacKinnon of Yellowknife Health and Social Services Authority.

• ESPAR: A Sexual Education Program Geared Towards the Empowerment of Youth Living in Poor Neighbourhoods presented by Laurence Fortin-Pellerin, Laval University.

• Workshop: Leading, Linking & Letting Go - A Framework for Working with Community presented by Marjorie Mayo, University of London.

• Workshop: Improving Success through Linkages - Building Capacity & Improving Success presented by George Parsons, Mariner Resource Opportunities Network, Inc.

• Managing Limited Water Resources: Drinking Water Management in Amaravathy, Kumily Panchayat, Kerala, India presented by Katharina Ganz, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts.

• First Nation Comprehensive Community Planning: Planning the First Nation Way presented by Violet Paul, Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nation Chiefs.

• Learning the World and Building a Sense of Community While Watching the Silver Screen: Community Education through Documentary Film Festivals presented by Carole Roy of St. Francis Xavier University.