Community Links
– Seniors Influencing Policy: Transportation

Horizons coordinated the Developing Rural Seniors’ Skills to Influence Policy: Transportation project, a Public Health Agency of Canada’s Population Health Fund project for Community Links. Our work included identifying and working with three groups of seniors from various geographic areas of Nova Scotia who were interested in community-based transportation and public policy. We coordinated and delivered two workshops to increase their skills in influencing public policy and their understanding of community based transportation. We also developed the Public Policy & Community Based Transportation Resource, which includes information on the steps to influence public policy, what determines good public policy, and building personal and organizational capacity to influence policy. As well, it offers the reader the steps and information to develop a community-based transportation program, a directory of existing services in Nova Scotia, and selected resources in the areas of public policy and organizational development.

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