Working toward a Community Center

Who: Horizons Action Teams

What: Three Action Teams have come out of the Horizons Program: A Childcare Action Team, Resource Action Team, and a Community Center Action Team.

Where: The next meeting Community Center Action Team will be held by the Community Center Action Team will be January 22, 5:30 pm. at the Community Church in Coulee Dam. Dinner and Child Care provided

Why: Our team believes that a centrally located community center would greatly benefit this area. We envision a facility that could offer social activities, learning activities, health and wellness programs, etc for all ages. We believe that this could have great potential to benefit all aspects of our community from the schools, to the senior programs, hospitals, clinics, even the police department.

It is our hope that we will be able to come together in this endeavor to strengthen our community and possibly work toward consolidating many of our individual programs into one unit working together.

Agenda: Focus on setting goals


Learn more about the Horizons program @ http://horizons.wsu.edu/ and follow our progress by visiting our blog site http://grandcoulee-wa.blogspot.com/

Photo Credit: Tape Art - Education and works in progress at Flickr Commons

HORIZONS: Community Leaders Reducing Poverty
Working together to move from poverty to prosperity for all.

Learn more about the Horizons program @ http://horizons.wsu.edu/

Coulee Stuff: Resources when you need them

Shelly Stine, Lake Roosevelt High School Resource Room Teacher and community member for almost thirty years, envisioned one place people could find information when needed. Situations arise in which health care, employment opportunity, or child care information is needed immediately.

With five towns, four counties, and a tribal government encompassing our area, people don't often know where the services exist.

As part of her Masters Degree from Washington State University, she searched out that collection of resources for her hometown and the families that needed them. She published a booklet and disseminated the information. Yet, the information still seemed elusive.

Shelly joined the HORIZONS Project and discovered that her work fed right into one of the group's goals: a centralized information area for people in need of services.

An action team formed, comprised of Roberta Haines, Alan Cain, Sheri Edwards, and Shelly. After discussion during HORIZONS meetings and as a committee, the team created a wiki (PB Wiki -- for Peanut Butter Wiki) that could easily be updated collaboratively and available any place with Internet access. The team's dream includes kiosks and a published booklet. The goal is to provide information in a central as well as frequently visited areas so access is available for people who need to find the information.

If you have information that needs to be added, or if you have a need for information, please contact Shelly Stine, whose vision has provided not only the heart of the project, but also the focus for the future.

And, please, visit the site and offer suggestions; we're just starting -- but what a start, thanks to Shelly. She's an example of a community leader committed to finding many ways to reduce poverty.

Welcome to Coulee Stuff !

A resource guide for needed services for health, families, emergencies, etc.

http://couleestuff.pbwiki.com/

HORIZONS: Community Leaders Reducing Poverty
Working together to move from poverty to prosperity for all.

Who has community vision?

Leadership Plenty Training

L-R:
Jennelle Kerner, Horizons Coach
Amanda Poch, Jesse Utz, Nate Piturachsatit

Bob Lambert, Muriel Meyer (Colville Community Member), Sheri Edwards




Who has community vision?

Amanda Poch, Jesse Utz, Bob Lambert, and Nate Piturachasatit demonstrated leadership, presentation, and visioning skills while learning about the ten modules of civic change from the Leadership Plenty Training. They learned that "the “plenty” in community leadership comes from recognizing the wealth of capacities that people in the community possess." Their role is to develop this community leadership to mobilize change.

What's so special about these four people?

One thing:

They are ordinary people who stepped forward so that, together, they can do the extraordinary with others like them. They mobilize assets to solve community problems; they believe their community can move forward.

Please read their stories:

Amanda Poch
Bob Lambert
Jesse Utz
Nate Piturachsatit

Will you step forward to move our community forward? Will you add your vision?

Please call or email: 633-3033 Mary Schilling.

HORIZONS: Community Leaders Reducing Poverty
Working together to move from poverty to prosperity for all.

Public Relations Training: Take Control

From Leadership Plenty

Pamela Roberts of Washington State University, Jefferson County Extension 4-H Youth Development shared her expertise on blogging to the advanced bloggers of the HORIZONS Project. We learned to take control of our shots to create a story and history of our progress to eliminate poverty.

Photo credit: Pamela Roberts, Horizons-PR.

What is Horizons--Grand Coulee?

HORIZONS

COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP TO REDUCE POVERTY

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GRAND COULEE, WA AREA

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Working together to move from poverty to prosperity for all

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“The Horizons program is about the changes a community can make to move from waiting to leading, from talking to action, from control by few to the participation of many, from despair to hope, and from indifference to pride."

The Horizons program is sponsored by Washington State University, which is the delivery organization for the Northwest Area Foundation.

The program promotes community leadership focused on reducing poverty in small rural and reservation communites. "For communities to thrive, everyone must thrive." The goal is building community capacity for creating sustainable skills and programs, all developed by community members through a democratic "Study Circle" process.

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Won't you join as a community member to help our local communities? Please express your interest, your comments, and your suggestions via email to: mschilling@gcdsd.org

Would you like more information about the Grand Coulee program? See our Contact page.

When are the next meetings? See our Meetings page.

Would you like more information on the project, see the above links or our About page.

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Please consider joining together with other community members to propel our stressed community into a prosperous community for all.

http://horizons.wsu.edu

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