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Community Life^®

These Community Life^® measures do not replace organizational standards. Nor do they conflict with the measures of Responsive Services^® and supports. Rather, the Community Life^® measures foster the bridging role of organizations in facilitating relationships between people and their communities. Organizations serve this bridging role when they connect people with other civic associations and/or community relationships.

The Community Life^® focus:

• Redefines place-based quality in the context of the community rather than that of the organization.

• Enhances the options and resources for individual outcomes, self-determination and individual financial budgeting.

• Emphasizes the bridging role of organizations. Organizations no longer serve the community by “managing, controlling or coordinating placements, contracts or slots.” Organizations, whether formal or informal, self-directed or professionally managed, optimize person-based quality of life with place-based Community Life^®

COMMUNITY LIFE^® FACTORS

Factor One - Quality of Community Life^® Data, Information and Analysis

Factor Two - Organizational Role

Factor Three  -Community Life^® Initiatives

PUBLICATIONS

You can learn more from the Community Life^® manual  which includes a Self-Assessment CD.

Download Community Life^® newsletter.

TRAINING

CQL Canada offers the following Community Life^® workshops.

Community Life^® LENS Workshop

What makes this 2 day workshop unparalleled in its approach is that participants are part of a new and unique community learning experience, going outside the organization’s meeting room into real and virtual space.

During this workshop, you will learn the skills to:

• Define various perspectives on the meanings of “community”

• Use different learning styles and experiences to gather and analyze data about quality and Community Life^®

• Reframe your thinking to look at the community surrounding your organization

• Identify the Community Life^® and Social Capital data most important to your community and to your organization

• Strategize how to use the data to impact your organizational planning efforts

• Investigate potential partnerships for your organization within your community

• Actualize the Community Life^® measures

• Plan and undertake strategic initiatives to enhance quality of Community Life

Regional Community Life^® Conference

Participants will use data, local resources and analysis to make decisions about community life surrounding the host organization and begin to explore how they would use this process in their own organization to promote change and create a real sense of community and social capital.

Evaluation of Regional Community Life^® Conference held in Brantford,ON.