Labrador West Community Advisory Panel

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Labrador West Community Advisory Panel
Violence Prevention 28 October 2009 Happy Valley
- Goose Bay
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Outline

• History of CAP
• Structure
• Cap Participants
• Objectives
• Value of the partnership approach
• Local and regional benefits
• Some examples of CAP accomplishments
• Benefits of community partnerships from a
  stakeholders perspective

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History

• 2006
• First meeting of CAP led by IOCs Vice President
  of Human Resources
• 2007
• Sept-IOC engaged EEM consultants to meet one on
  one with various stakeholder and conduct some
  stakeholder mapping.
• Oct- Next meeting of CAP stakeholders held in
  Labrador West
• 2008
• CAP continued to grow with new members joining
  and everyone working together on the
  issues/opportunities identified.
• CAP meetings were held 3 times that year
• 2009
• CAP has held 2 meetings and will meet again in
  November  

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Structure of CAP

• Initiated by IOC
• 30 stakeholders representing all aspects of the
  community
• Independently facilitated (partnership broker)
• Active since 2007, through rapid expansion and
  sudden downturn
• Community satisfaction with process and outcomes
• CAP Meets a minimum of 3 times per year  

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Structure partnership themes

COMMUNITY ADVISORY PANEL
Environment
Housing
Transportation
Business Tourism
Social
Education, Training Employment
Transportation
Education, Training Employment
Transportation
Education, Training Employment
Transportation
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CAP participants
Association for Community Living Labrador Grenfell Health
Association Francophone du Labrador Labrador Trap Skeet Club
Chamber of Commerce Labrador West Ministerial Association
College of the North Atlantic Labrador West School Board
Dept. of Innovation, Trade Rural Development Dept. of Labrador Affairs MHA Labrador West
Dept. of Natural Resources Labrador West School Board
Dept. of Tourism, Culture, Recreation Liberal Riding of Labrador
Eastern Habitat Joint Venture Menihek Nordic Ski Club
First Steps Family Resource Centre Steelworkers Association of Active Retirees
Hope Haven Royal Newfoundland Constabulary
Hyron Regional Economic Development Corp. Smokey Mountain Ski Club
Idenpendent environment interest Town of Labrador City
Innu Nation Town of Wabush
Iron Ore Company of Canada United Steelworkers Union
Labrador West Status of Womens Council White Wolf Snowmobile Club

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Objectives

• The Community Advisory Panels (CAP) objectives
  are to
• Provide a consultative forum for Labrador West
  and Sept-Îles stakeholders to engage in regular,
  transparent, equitable, and constructive
  dialogue.
• Improve understanding of environmental, social,
  and economic issues/opportunities pertaining to
  mining operations and community development.
• Collaborate in partnership to achieve shared
  sustainable development goals and address
  identified issues/opportunities

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Community Capacity Resiliency

• Community owned engagement mechanism with shared
  accountability
• Constructive process focused on outcomes of
  community benefit
• Participatory planning, assessment, and
  implementation
• Joint development of mutually acceptable
  solutions
• Seamless engagement at an organic pace
• Strengthened sustainability of community/regional
  development programs

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Local Regional Benefits

• Provides existing organizations, initiatives, or
  projects with similar or overlapping aims to
  share
• Alignment with local, regional, and provincial
  planning priorities
• Provides forum for stakeholders to learn what
  other groups are doing within their community
• Excellent opportunity for networking and
  collaboration
• Allows stakeholders to gain support for their
  projects
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Some examples

• Social
• Contractor code of conduct
• Community bullying
• Community feedback on hospital design
• Support to physician recruitment and daycare
  centre projects

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Some examples

• Housing
• Housing needs assessment (incl. homelessness
  report card)
• Support for subsidized housing project
• Support for tenants rights and legal aid

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Some examples

• Transportation
• Emergency travel assistance fund
• Emergency response procedure for railway crossing
  
• Public safety initiatives for trans-Lab highway
• Explanation for high flight costs

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Some examples

• Environment
• Biodiversity and conservation planning
• Expansion project redesign

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Some examples

• Business Tourism
• Recreation visioning
• Volunteer recruitment and marketing strategy
• Joint winter recreation event

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Stakeholders Perspective

• Opportunity to gain an understanding of the
  interconnected issues in our community and bring
  about change on a larger scale
• Larger voice for advocacy on priorities affecting
  all sectors and learning new avenues to lobby for
  funding and change
• Key to the success of the CAP is the independent
  consultant outside the community that provides
  a focused individualized facilitation of the
  action orientated communication.