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What is The Social Planning Council?

Activities:

o Monthly Meetings: Attend meetings with guest speakers from within the community &/or presentations at each meeting. We currently meet the fourth Monday of every month (excluding summer) at City Hall with light lunch by donation.

o Facebook & Email Group: Utilize the network on Facebook. Start discussions, learn about & share upcoming community events, projects and meetings. If you don’t use Facebook, then join the email network instead.

o Inform City Council: The SPC provides reports to City Council regularly and the City keeps the SPC informed. Use the network and have your voices heard.



Strategic Direction of the Social Planning Council of Williams Lake & Area:

o Poverty Reduction and the local Living Wage Campaign.

o Community Collaboration and Networking.

o Retention and Succession of residents within the Area.



Community Social Planning:

o Supports communities in building an integrated approach to complex problems that take into account social, economic, and environmental concerns.

o Maximizes the effectiveness of often scarce resources by working to reduce duplication, overlap and competition.

o Provides an ongoing forum for communication, coordination and conflict resolution.



Friday, January 25, 2019

Monthly Meeting Reminder - Monday, Jan 28, 2019


The Social Planning Council of Williams Lake and Area's meetings are intended to encourage dialogue on subjects that are relevant to the current needs of our unique community. Recently the subject of recruitment, retention, and succession for positions including staff, management, board members, and even volunteers has arisen within many local organizations and this is the subject of the discussion at the next meeting, this upcoming Monday, January 29th starting at 11:30 am at Community Futures* downtown Williams Lake. Please join us to share your experiences, challenges, solutions, or to just listen in. As one of the survey participants commented on SPC meetings topics, "There is always something to learn and connections to be made."

The discussion will last approximately 45 minutes with the attempt to ensure time for roundtable updates afterwards - please join for part of, or the whole meeting. There will be free coffee, tea and light lunch available. Hope to see you there - these meetings are open to everyone.

*there are lots of free public parking spots and parking lots within the close vicinity.

Last month's meeting minutes from Oct 22, 2018 (Open House and AGM took place in November, and we did not host a December meeting due to the holidays) are posted below for your review.

Hope to see you there!

Share our invitation found on our public facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/socialplanning.council.1

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Contact Us

The Social Planning Council is made up of volunteers from the community. Many of us work in social services agencies or also volunteer for other organizations.

Our Mailing Address is Box 20045, Williams Lake BC V2G 4R1

To reach the Society Coordinator Jessica Dunn please email spc-coordinator@xplornet.com or call 250-243-2126

To reach the Communities that Care Project Facilitator Barb Jones please email communitiesthatcare.wl@gmail.com or call 250-305-4838

To reach the THRIVE Williams Lake Project Manager Anne Burrill please email annelburrill@gmail.com or call 250-267-7211

To reach the current SPC Chair Larry Stranberg please email happytrails@cfdccariboo.com or call 250-392-3626