Blogging Questions Week 5
Rules: Post your answers on your blogsite by Tuesday, April 22 by midnight and be entered in the drawing for one of our book titles…
NOTE: Please enter your answers as either a comment to the original question OR as a brand new entry on your blog so that the answers are easy for people to find.
Reflective Questions:
- What’s next in Horizons for your community? Are your Action Teams planning activities in the next 2 months? How do those activities relate to the 3 legs of Horizons: Poverty reduction, Leadership Development and Community Mobilization?
What’s next in Horizons for us? Well it’s hard to say really except for lots of wonderful growth.
Here’s and update on our action teams:
Community Center is on hold for the moment due to planning and zoning issues.
Trade School is about 5 years out. The SVEDC is working hard to bring in a Job Corps facility to the Silver Valley but they have not that long ago started the process and it doesn’t exactly happen over night.
Community Resource Guide is almost done. We expect for all of our information to be together by the end of May and we then plan for distribution to be this summer.
Other “action items” that have come about are Silver Valley Horizons is supporting the Shoshone Co. Women’s Resource Center in opening a shelter for women & children escaping domestic violence situations. After this goal is accomplished we can hopefully work towards homeless and/or transitional housing as the community has neither of these either.
SV Horizons, Shoshone County Women’s Resource Center, and Velocity Business Training are working together to reach out to prominent members and organizations in the Silver Valley in hopes of opening a business incubator as well as provide entrepreneurial business & life skills training to the community. The scope of this project is hard to say because there is so much room for growth.
Providing a space for the upcoming Youth Suicide Prevention Workshops, so that more people from our community can attend, due to the fact that travel outside of the valley, is expensive and hard to do for most of us.
The activities relate to the 3 legs of Horizons by the following.
* The business incubator will provide ways of employment which will then in turn reduce poverty in the monetary definition. It will stimulate those people to become more involved in the communities. And will empower them to build a business on their own which will provide a self esteem boost that the benefits of there endeavors will continue to grow.
* Youth Suicide Prevention pretty much explains itself I feel. When we are able to reach troubled youth and show them that they really do have a reason for being here, they gain a self worth which in turn will benefit the community in numerous ways because there is so much room for positive growth in them.
* Community Resource Guide allows people to know where to go in times of need and discover places they may not have been aware of before, with no barriers for them to overcome.
* A shelter not only provides immediate relief from a traumatic situation, it also provides numerous avenues and support for the victims to be able to move forward in a positive manner. Basic needs must be met (survival) before a person is able to thrive and having a shelter would provide this. I also think for the most part this is self explanatory. Scavenger Hunt Question:
- Let’s broaden our scavenger hunt world a little… Of the other Horizons states, which one has interesting information about using Chicken Tractors to help maintain community gardens? Check out the link section of the Idaho Horizons Blog that lists the blog addresses for Montana, NorthDakota, South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa Horizons. Feel free to explore and be inspired by other community groups just like yours!
This week’s winner will receive a copy of each of the following books:
The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K. Shipler