- Social Issues Identification
This checklist provides you with a high level overview of components to consider as part of your social planning. By reviewing this checklist it will ensure you take a holistic approach in developing the social dimension of your ICSP. [Download Checklist]
- Community Dialogue Toolkit
It is important for any municipality to hear the voices of its citizens to help understand and address any issues they may have. A community dialogue session can take many forms, but its purpose is to identify issues and opportunities within a community that can ultimately lead to a higher quality of life for its citizens. This toolkit will aide you in preparing a community dialogue session. [Go to Toolkit]
- Town Hall Tool
A town hall session enables you to meet with members of your municipality to educate them on an issue and then discuss. It can be a useful tool in reaching a large number of people at once. This tool provides you with a process to host a town hall session. [Download Tool]
- Working in Partnership
This guide created by Alberta Economic Development is a helpful tool that explains the benefits of partnering, how to find compatibility, how to handle conflict, and other useful information when considering forming partnerships. [Go to Guide]
- Sustainability Checklist
This tool will help you identify the most sustainable way forward for a project. The purpose of a project may primarily be social, economic or environmental, but it might have impacts or benefits in other areas that have not been considered in other areas. [Go to Checklist]
- Community Improvement Planning Handbook
This handbook, produced by Ontario’s Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing, will help your municipality plan activities that effectively use, reuse and restore lands, buildings and infrastructure. The objective is to continually energize your community through the attainment of environmental, social, cultural and economic benefits achieved from more sustainable growth management and development practises. [Go to Handbook]
- Planning for Barrier Free Municipalities
This handbook looks at ways for municipalities to eliminate barriers for people with disabilities in planning and development decisions, especially decisions involving public facilities and outdoor public spaces. This guide provides suggestions for municipalities to develop barrier-free policies and options that will suit their local circumstances and resources. The goal is to assist and encourage municipalities to implement local initiatives that remove existing barriers and create more accessible communities. [Go to Handbook]
- Community Based Response to Healthcare
This framework for planning and action provides steps you can take to effectively address healthcare issues. The ideas are flexible enough to be used by any group, from an established organization to a start-up group. The framework can be used as a refresher on organizing for healthcare change, or as an introduction to the steps needed for larger projects. [Download PDF]
- School Sustainability Planning Checklist
- This document presents a number of ideas that will help you plan for the sustainability of your community’s schools. It provides a list of questions to ask about your sustainability initiative, and briefly outlines various funding opportunities. [Download PDF]
- Evacuation Checklist
This is a quick reference checklist of things that should be assessed in an emergency situation. This includes evacuation needs, infrastructure assessment, and warning or information releases. [Download Checklist]
- Volunteer Management
This website is intended to help set a framework for ongoing interactions with volunteers. It provides best practices in volunteer management. It is not intended to help the reader deal with immediate problems such as finding a new board member or training a new recruit, but is designed to help you be more proactive and avoid crisis volunteer management. [Download PDF]
- Recruiting Young Volunteers
This is a one page reference sheet for recruiting young people as volunteers. It gives ideas as to where to find these volunteers, what sort of opportunities would interest them, and how to appeal to them. [Download PDF]
- Recruiting Older Adults as Volunteers
Recruiting the right people for the right program requires a commitment of time, energy, creativity, and persistence. The document is a resource for getting older adults involved in intergenerational programs. It also offers tips and a “Recruitment Checklist” that should help you develop a recruitment plan. [Download PDF]
- Affordable Housing Toolkit
Developed by AUMA, the Affordable Housing Toolkit is a reference guide that provides you with simple and practical suggestions and examples of how to manage housing issues in your community. Examples are included from different municipalities in Alberta. [Download PDF]
- Recruiting New Rural Practitioners
This website provides tips for recruiting and retaining practitioners in rural areas. The site offers information on where and how to recruit, and some case studies from rural America. [Go to Website]
- Alberta Rural Physician Action Plan
RPAP (Alberta Rural Physician Action Plan) is an independent not-for-profit company funded by Alberta Health & Wellness, established to provide a provincially-focused comprehensive, integrated and sustained program for the education, recruitment and retention of physicians for rural practice. Their website provides some of their publications and other useful information. [Go to Website]
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