Blueprint Communities Delaware Training Program

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Blueprint Communities DelawareTraining
Program

• Developed and presented by
• The Center for Community Research Service
• University of Delaware
• May 16, 2008

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Welcome Back!

• On behalf of the Federal Home Loan Bank of
  Pittsburgh and the University of Delaware, we
  welcome the nine community planning teams and
  their members back to the Blueprint Community
  Training Program

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New and Improved Ground Rules!

• Here they are!

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The Trainers

• In order of appearance, the individuals who will
  be leading the training today are
• Dr. Steven Peuquet
• Prof. Raheemah Jabbar-Bey
• Mr. Arthur Boswell
• Rev. Beth Doty
• Their bios can be found on the course website.

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Course Webpage

• Remember, all neededinformation and links for
  this course can be found on the course webpage
  located at http//www.udel.edu/ccrs/blueprint

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Overall Goal of BC

• The creation of well-conceived and
  comprehensive community revitalization plans that
  contain one or more feasible project or program
  proposals

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• The Community Strategic Planning and
  Implementation Process
• Strategic Community Planning and Implementation
  Process Diagram

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Questions ?

• Any questions from what we covered last month, or
  what I just reviewed?

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• Review Discussion of Homework
• Raheemah Jabbar-Bey

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• Identification of Strategic Issues
  Opportunities
• Steve Peuquet

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SWOT Analysis

• Strengths
• Weaknesses
• Opportunities
• Threats

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SWOT Analysis

• From the inside environment
• Strengths
• Weaknesses
• From the outside environment
• Opportunities
• Threats

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SWOT Analysis

• From the inside environment
• Strengths (assets)
• Weaknesses (problems)
• From the outside environment
• Opportunities (assets)
• Threats (problems)

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Strategic Issues Opportunities

• What makes an issue or opportunity a strategic
  issue or opportunity?
• Its important
• The community can act upon it in a significant way

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Strategic Issues Opportunities

• Strategic issues and opportunities need to be
  recognized.
• Strategic issues and opportunities need to be
  managed, and if possible exploited.

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• Developing a Shared Vision of the Communitys
  Future
• Raheemah Jabbar-Bey

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What is Community Visioning?

• Two part definition
• One
• Visioning is a process by which a community
  envisions the future it wants and plans how to
  achieve it.
• Source Green, G., Haines, A., Halebsky,S.
  (2000). Building our future A guide to community
  visioning (Report No. G3708). Madison University
  of Wisconsin Extension Publications.

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What is Community Visioning?

• Second part of definition
• Through public involvement, communities
  identify their purpose, core values, and vision
  of the future, which are then transformed into a
  manageable and feasible set of community goals
  and an action plan.

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Key Elements of Visioning

• Participatory Process
• Engages Local Residents
• Develops Consensus
• Produces a VISION STATEMENT
• Seeks a DESIRED End State,
• A Future to Strive For

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Key Elements of Visioning

• Orientation of Visioning
• Expansive
• Innovative
• Proactive
• Focuses on the values of residents
• and the visions they have for their community

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An Accepted Planning Technique

• Latest transformation of planning
• Purpose of public participation in
  decision-making
• Emerged in the 1960s often mandated
• Local and federal governments
• Community-Based Organizations

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Community Visioning and Asset-Based Approach to
Community Development

• Visioning focuses on Assets
• Asset-Based CD Approach
• Starts with assessing the community
• Economically, demographically, socially,
• financially
• Where the community IS
• Followed by Visioning
• Where the community should be

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Personal Visions into Shared Visions

• Individuals share their visions on key issues
  relevant to the well-being of the community
• Their visions are shaped into a common shared
  vision

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Who Participates?

• A broad cross-section
• Individual community members
• Business owners
• Community leaders
• Nonprofit leaders
• Religious and Faith leaders
• Ethnic Minority Groups
• Various Age Groups and Genders

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Step by Step Process

• Community Planning Team
• Plans first stakeholder meeting
• Prepares draft vision statement
• Identifies key areas
• Seeks participants for key area
• committees
• Each key area committee prepares
• vision statement for its key area

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Step by Step Process

• Each key area committee submits its
• vision statements to Community
• Planning Team
• Community Planning Team drafts a Vision Statement
  based on the work of the key area committees
• Community Planning Team convenes a community
  stakeholder meeting to obtain feedback for final
  review and incorporation of the Community Vision
  Statement

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Desired Results and Outcomes

• Final Community Vision Statement
• A guide for subsequent planning and use of data
• Provides direction for selection of strategy(s)
  for each key area
• Leads to Goals and Objectives for each key area
• Leads to Action Plans

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Community Visioning Exercise

• INSTRUCTIONS
• Each team will develop
• 1) Shared Core Values and
• 2) A Draft Community Visioning
• Statement
• Copies of Specific instructions will be
  distributed to each Community Planning Team.

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• Developing a Strategy for Community
  Transformation
• Steve Peuquet Raheemah Jabbar-Bey

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Transformation Strategies

• Examples
• Workforce development
• Life-long learning
• Housing
• Tourism
• Brownfields redevelopment
• Public safety
• Neighborhood beautification

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Panel Session

• Lessons Learned
• from Doing Community Strategic Planning
• Arthur Boswell and Beth Doty

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• Developing a Strategy for Community
  Transformation
• (continued)
• Steve Peuquet Raheemah Jabbar-Bey

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Transformation Strategies

• Exercise
• Each community team will collectively develop a
  DRAFT community transformation strategy that can
  act as a framework for their community plan.

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• Developing Goals
• and Objectives
• Steve Peuquet

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Goals

• Describe desired end states for the community
  that are stated in general terms

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Objectives

• Describe desired end states for the community
  that are stated in specific and measurable
  terms.
• A community reaches it goals by accomplishing
  objectives that are related to those goals

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Linkage of Goals Objectives
Goal 1

• Goal 2

Goal 3
Objective A
Objective B
Objective C
Objective D
Objective E
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SMART Objectives

• Specific Objectives should specify what they
  want to achieve.
• Measurable You should be able to measure
  whether you are meeting the objectives or not.
• Achievable - Are the objectives you set,
  achievable and attainable?
• Realistic Can you realistically achieve the
  objectives with the resources you have?
• Time When do you want to achieve the set
  objectives?

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• Reading Assignments for the June 14th
  SessionAvailable on the course webpage
• http//www.udel.edu/ccrs/blueprint

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• Homework Assignment
• (due June 8th)
• Available on the course webpage
• http//www.udel.edu/ccrs/blueprint

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Evaluation of Todays Training

• Please complete the evaluation survey instrument
  that has been passed out.

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Thats It for Now!

• This concludes our training for
• now. See you in Wilmington for our next session
  on June 14th.