What is a partnership?

1. What is a partnership? Partnership is a voluntary collaborative agreement between two or more parties in which all participants agree to work together.

2. Military Family Services Let’s boldly go where lots of people have gone before… Community Outreach

3. Who is this guy? What does he know?

4. Community Outreach:What is the agenda? Day 1: Knowing and loving yourself is the building block to everything. • What is the mission of this retreat? • What are the tools we have to achieve it? • What does success look like? • Getting to common vocabulary on Mission, Vision and Values

5. Community Outreach:What is the agenda? Day 2: Healthy communities ‘r’ us • What is Community Development • Environmental Scan • Building strategic partnerships to make it better. • Relationship Management

6. Community Outreach:What is the agenda? Day 3: Making it real • Back to Vision: success stories • Applying the tools to real problems to make sure they work • Check that our learning and sharing objectives have been met • Evaluate our three days together.

7. To begin, let’s do an inventory Who are our able crew?

8. What are the key outcomes you need from our time together?

9. The building blocks of strategic planning: • Corporate identity Defines who you are, and affects how you do things and how others perceive you • The Mission Tells you what you do, for what purpose, and provides philosophical and policy direction • The Vision Is the picture of success, so you know when you get there • The Culture Your values, how you do things • Environmental Scan • The Strategic plan Is how you get there in the big picture and in the long term (3 to 5 years) • The Operational plan yearly objectives

10. Who are we? Translate who you are, how you do things and how others perceive you into a coat of arms.

11. The mission: To contribute to the well-being of Canadian Armed Forces Families, enabling a mission-ready force that protects Canadians and Canadian interests across the country and around the world. • What is our business? • For whom? • How?

12. It is not just what you do, how you do it counts too • Corporate culture is not a bad thing, its about values • Wal-Mart • McDonalds • Disney

13. Our Values Compassion, Creativity, Responsiveness, Fairness Collaboration

14. Our vision of success

15. Community Outreach:How did we do? Day 1: Knowing and loving yourself is the building block to everything. • Who is here we really need to stay in touch with? • Did we gain a better understanding of Mission, Vision and Values? • Are we inspired by our mission and our peers? Today is gone. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one!

16. Community Outreach:What is the agenda? Day 2: Healthy communities ‘r’ us • What is Community Development • Environmental Scan • Building strategic partnerships to make it better. • Relationship management

17. Community Development is? the things that we do to, for and with a community to make it a healthy one.

18. Environmental scan: How do I know if my community is healthy? Learning to Know Learning to Know involves the development of knowledge and skills that are needed to function in the world. These skills include literacy, numeracy and critical thinking. Learning to Do Learning to Do involves the acquisition of skills that are often linked to occupational success, such as computer training, managerial training and apprenticeships. Learning to Live Together Learning to Live Together involves the development of social skills and values such as respect and concern for others, social and inter-personal skills and an appreciation of the diversity of Canadians. Learning to Be Learning to Be involves activities that foster personal development (body, mind and spirit) and contribute to creativity, personal discovery and an appreciation of the inherent value provided by these pursuits. http://www.cli-ica.ca/en.aspx Canadian Council on Learning

19. Environmental scan: How do I know if my community is healthy? Canadian Index of Well Being: Measuring what matters Community vitality Democratic engagement Education Environment Healthy populations Leisure & culture Living standards Time use https://uwaterloo.ca/canadian-index-wellbeing/

20. a healthy community is? • Inclusive • Accessible • Safe • Well serviced • Diverse • Has people working together for common goals. A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.  Margaret Mead

21. That looks like a really big job A wise man once said…. Impossible is temporary

22. Never Walk Alone; building strategic partnerships

23. Partnership: What makes it strategic? To achieve a common purpose or undertake a specific task and to share risks, responsibilities, resources, competencies and benefits.

24. The not for profit sector in partnership with governments • Helps the public sector by leveraging their passion to help build a community • Helps the private sector by making communities worth living in • Contributes over $500,000,000 in Ottawa’s economy • Prevents alien attacks

25. The three reasons to partner: You have a common mission

26. You have a similar mission

27. They give you money or stuff so you can do your mission

28. Getting started • First SWOT it • Have a VISION of what you want • What does SUCCESS look like?

29. First SWOT it; know yourself • Have a VISION of what you want: know what you want to be • What does SUCCESS look like? Be specific!

30. My top ten? • Clients • Local community and its associations • Recreation Department • Buildings Department • Community and Health Services • Program partners • Business Improvement Area • Service clubs • Nursery Schools, • Local Schools

31. Identify your target for help N.F.D.

32. Identify your target for help Diversity

33. Over to you. Let’s make it personal. What Strength will you leverage? What Weakness will you fix What Opportunity will you seize? What Threat will you eliminate?

34. Who are your top ten? • Support enhanced awareness, access and use of physical and mental health services • Optimize the Military Family Services • Communicate more effectively with families; and • Strengthen existing partnerships, foster new ones, and more fully leverage these relationships.

35. Are you on target? Setting Priorities.

36. Decide on a joint mission Remember your Priorities!

37. Celebrate it

38. Now do it again, and again, and again, until it works. Events Programs Assets

39. But I am not the boss, how do I make this happen? • Share what you have learned • Prescribe and suggest some links • Seek forgiveness, not permission

40. Remember, relationships take work! Band Camp Tween Club Westboro Youth Drop-in Centre Principal’s breakfast swim to survive Social Services West Lunch last minute club Dovercat fun mobile Bouncy House

41. Community Outreach:What is the agenda? Day 2: How did we do? • Do we know what Community Development is and how it is done? • Do we know what a healthy community is and how close are we to being it? • Environmental Scan: do we know what our most important strengths, weaknesses , opportunities and threats are? • Do we know how strategic partnerships make our community healthier? • Are we going to be good at Relationship management?

42. Community Outreach:What is the agenda? Day 3: Making it real • Back to Vision: success stories • Applying the tools to real problems to make sure they work • Check that our learning and sharing objectives have been met • Evaluate our three days together.

43. Building strategic partnerships You may find friends in the most unlikely places

44. A healthy community has… Three pillars to support it: • Public sector • Private sector • Not for profit/volunteer sector

45. What is a partnership? Partnership is a voluntary collaborative agreement between two or more parties in which all participants agree to work together.

46. Vision: Success Stories Inspiration

47. Making it real Going for long hanging fruit is okay. He who dares, wins. Success breeds success.

48. The Operational Plan Oh Lord, my boat is so small and the sea is so big…. You have your roadmap…

49. With the right sidekick… We could be heroes…

50. With the right sidekick… We could be heroes…