Creating Welcoming and Inclusive Communities: What Will It Take?
Report of the June 26 Forum "Creating Welcoming and Inclusive Communities: What Will It Take?"
The report provides highlights from the presentations as well as captures the elements of a shared vision for welcoming and inclusive communities drawn from the small group dialogues, offers advice for decision-makers and considers some of the implications for action.
Report (PDF)
A Day-Long Forum on Thursday, June 26, 2008, 8 AM - 5 PM, at the Morris J Wosk Centre for Dialogue
Metro Vancouver communities are experiencing rapid demographic change through immigration and migration and much of this change challenges provincial and local governments to find better ways to ensure that communities are welcoming and inclusive places for all residents.
In light of this dynamic urban context, this one-day forum will provide an opportunity for discussion between representatives and staff from local and provincial governments, business and community leaders and governments citizen advisory bodies.
Sponsored by the British Columbia Ministry of Attorney General and Minister
Responsible for Multiculturalism and convened by Simon Fraser University's
Centre for Dialogue, this invitation-only forum will give delegates
the opportunity to consider the key principles, policies and programs that
contribute to shaping, welcoming and inclusive communities. At this forum
you will:
• explore the meaning of welcoming and inclusive communities
• discuss
the dimensions and hallmarks of such communities
• share approaches
for implementing change
• identify the necessary capacities
for local governments to act
• articulate a vision of what
it will take to cultivate welcome and inclusive communities
in • British Columbia.
Invited delegates bring a variety of backgrounds and expertise and represent eight Metro Vancouver municipalities: Burnaby, Coquitlam, Delta, New Westminster, North Vancouver, Richmond, Surrey, and Vancouver.
