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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 31, 2014

Community Updates (10) – Jan 31, 2014



1) School District No. 27 - Policy Review - send your feedback online
2) Communities that Care's - Positive Action Word of the Week
3) Enjoy Family Fest - Sunday Feb 2 from 10:00-2:00 at Marie Sharpe School
4) Computer Literacy - Seniors & Youth
5) BC Schizophrenia Society - group sessions begin Feb 8
6) Diabetes info session - Tuesday Feb 4th
7) Ready Set Learn - it's free & fun
8) Classroom Space needed
9) Tea & Tissues - Grief recovery group
10) Help Lake City Secondary win the People's Choice Award on YouTube! 


1) School District No. 27 - Policy Review - send your feedback online
The Board of Education, at its meeting on 10 December 2013, reviewed the Community Use of Facilities and Grounds policy.  A notice of motion has been made to adopt the revised policy at the 25 February 2014 open meeting of the Board.  The Board is seeking public input or comment on the proposed policy.  Feedback is open until the 17 February 2014.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/UseOfFacilitiesPolicy

If you would like a hard-copy (paper copy) of any of the documentation, contact Connee Newberry, Executive Assistant, either by e-mail or phone 250-398-3833.

2) Communities that Care's - Positive Action Word of the Week
The Positive Action word of the week for Feb 3rd is: Actions: What you do or cause to happen.

If you would like more background information about Positive Action please contact Carla Bullinger at 250-267-8249 or email comthatcares@sd27.bc.ca

3) Enjoy Family Fest - Sunday Feb 2 from 10:00-2:00 at Marie Sharpe School
CCPL is celebrating Reach a Reader and Family Literacy Week which is culminating in our Family Fest event on February 2 at Marie Sharpe School.  This free and very popular family event will have even more interactive stations than in previous years including: music station; composting demos; puppet shows; story time; art station; free books; face painting; entertainment; refreshments and more!

4) Computer Literacy - Seniors & Youth
Students are teaching seniors basic computer (& cell phone) skills. If you are interested in learning more, please contact Claire at 250-398-4173

5) BC Schizophrenia Society - group sessions begin Feb 8
Williams Lake is hosting the next group of ten sessions starting Feb 8th from 10 am - 12:30 pm - pre-registration is required. Call 250-392-5553 or email  bcsswl@bcss.org

6) Diabetes info session - Tuesday Feb 4th
Diabetes and your heart is the topic of the lunch time session on Feb 4th at the Women's Contact Society from 12 - 1 pm. Reservations are required today so please call 250-392-4118 to reserve your seat.

7) Ready Set Learn - it's free & fun
Watch for this program beginning in February. It is an opportunity for preschoolers and their parents or care givers to visit their future school for fun activities and tips for early learning. For details contact the school, call 250-398-3839 or visit www.sd27.bc.ca

8) Classroom Space needed
Bev Currie-Mclean, the lead instructor for the Office Admin Program offered by the Nicola Valley Institute of Technology is looking for a classroom or room that she can use teach a class in Williams Lake for a maximum of twenty students. NVIT is able to pay for this space. If you have such a space you can contact Bev directly at 250-378-3384.

9) Tea & Tissues - Grief recovery group
Bring life back into focus with the grief recovery group, "Tea and Tissues" 
on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of every month in the Fireside Room,
782 9th Ave North, (starting February 19th) at 5:30 pm for 1 hour.  For more
information call John 398-5642.

10) Help Lake City Secondary win the People's Choice Award on YouTube! 
Over the past months, Miss. Black's grade 12 Marketing class went under a process to create a Junior Achievement company. Through hard work, and asking for seed money from a variety of local companies, we raised enough money to purchase a product. That product was, gourmet fortune cookies. All of the net proceeds will be going to the Boys and Girls Club's after school program. They applied for a chance to go to the Junior Achievement Innovation Jam in Vancouver, which only 20 schools in BC can attend if selected to go. We were chosen! Now it was our job to represent Williams Lake and the Cariboo Region.

In 1 hour, we had to construct a green idea that could possibly change our world. Lake City Secondary thought of a way to filter CO2 gas that would normally be pumped into our atmosphere. Our Facebook page Cariboo Cookies. The close off date for voting is Feb.21, 2014. To vote, "like" our YouTube Video. This is the link that will take you directly to our video: http://youtube/5yAR0LcC33o


These updates have been forwarded by the Social Planning Council. For more information please email spc-coordinator@xplornet.com or call 250-243-2126. The SPC would like to thank the United Way and City of Williams Lake for their funding support.

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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