Community Issues Forum: Art of Belonging

More documents

Recommendations

Info

What did people talk about? DISCUSSION PURPOSE ACTIVITY Introductions Common Ground Gaps Get to know other participants. Give participants an opportunity to share personal stories, define “belonging,” and build trust. Find out some of the ways our community needs to grow. During introductions, participants shared their name, their personal pronouns (see pg. 9), and one place where they feel they belong in Fort Collins. Participants were asked to share a story of time when they felt that they belonged and identify: • Similar experiences • What creates a sense of belonging Facilitators selected questions from the following list to generate conversation: • “What challenges do we have as a community in making everyone feel they belong? • “Who in Fort Collins might feel like they do not belong? Why?” • “What are ways that people have felt like they don’t belong in Fort Collins?” • “Are there certain places that this happens more than others?” • “Is anyone willing to share a story of a time and place where they really felt they didn’t belong.” Resources Recognize actors in the community who currently help to make people feel like they belong in Fort Collins. Participants drew maps of organizations that currently work on inclusion efforts within Fort Collins. Community Issues Forum 14
DISCUSSION Action Items PURPOSE Puzzle out how we can make the community of Fort Collins a more welcoming place. ACTIVITY Each table was given a group of Community Player cards: • Local Government • Non-Profit • Businesses • People in the Community • Coalition/Collaborative groups • Neighborhoods • Education/Schools • Universities • Faith Communities • Me • Blank card for additional categories On each Community Player card, participants wrote down a responsibility or action that belonged to that community player. For example: Martin mentioned earlier that we have a need for a night bus that runs from the North side of town to Old Town. This might be something that City of Fort Collins would be able to tackle. Grab the Local Government Card and write down that responsibility or task on the back of the card. Closing Reflect on the event and evaluate the conversation using a post-survey. Share small-table discussions with the larger group. At the end of the event, these Community Cards were organized by the community player (rather than by table) and posted around the room so that participants could see the ideas from other tables. Community Issues Forum 15
Page 1 and 2: Community Issues Forum The Art of B
Page 3 and 4: Table of Contents. Executive Summar
Page 5 and 6: Community Players. Participants ide
Page 7 and 8: However, forum participants were no
Page 9 and 10: Methods. What were the goals of the
Page 11 and 12: What are Personal Pronouns? Oftenti
Page 13: What did the event look like? Backg
Page 17 and 18: Key Findings. Community Issues Foru
Page 19 and 20: Gaps. “Fort Collins may have a lo
Page 21 and 22: Additionally, participants asked fo
Page 23 and 24: When it comes to outdoor recreation
Page 25 and 26: “One homeless man stopped me in t
Page 27 and 28: Resources. To get a sense of the cu
Page 29 and 30: Common Themes. Connect and Collabor
Page 31 and 32: • Hold open-houses to spread the
Page 33 and 34: • Connect and Collaborate. Coalit
Page 35 and 36: diversity training. This could be a
Page 37 and 38: interested in learning about divers
Page 39 and 40: Next Steps. The spring 2016 Communi
Page 41 and 42: Evaluation. Participating in Delibe
Page 43 and 44: How often do you feel that other pa
Page 45 and 46: Appendix. Community Issues Forum 45
Page 47 and 48: Female to male transgender 0% 0 Mal
Page 49 and 50: Post-Survey Demographic Information
Page 51 and 52: Appendix 2. Gaps In order to find o
Page 53 and 54: Table Question Facilitator Notes 8
Page 65 and 66:
Table Question Facilitator Notes 10
Page 67 and 68:
Table Question Facilitator Notes 10
Page 69 and 70:
Table Question Facilitator Notes We
Page 71 and 72:
Appendix 3. Resources Organization
Page 73 and 74:
Organization Table Numbers Number o
Page 75 and 76:
Page 77 and 78:
Page 79 and 80:
Table 15 IDEA: Businesses should be
Page 81 and 82:
Table 12 5 Facilitator Notes City o
Page 83 and 84:
Table 11 Be transparent 11 More lgb
Page 85 and 86:
Table 2 Facilitator Notes F: I know
Page 87 and 88:
Table Facilitator Notes Community P
Page 89 and 90:
Table Facilitator Notes Community P
Page 91 and 92:
Table 14 14 Facilitator Notes Multi
Page 93 and 94:
Table 10 Library specifically: Do a
Page 95 and 96:
Table 11 Be an ally for someone dif
Page 97 and 98:
Table 6 Accessibility Miscellaneous
Page 99 and 100:
Table 15 More in person contact opp
Page 101 and 102:
Table 1 Go out of your typical rout
Page 103 and 104:
Table 13 Be accepting 13 Don’t be
Page 105 and 106:
Table 4 Raise awareness about diver
show all

Community Issues Forum: Art of Belonging

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?