Upper St-John River Valley – Future Community Planning

The Upper St-John River Valley-Future Community Planning is a project that will enable communities to play an active role in determining the future direction of their region by strengthening social ties and visualizing options that allows the expanding and diversification of local economy.

This project stretches from Nackawic to Perth-Andover. Many communities in this region are facing challenges in today’s changing world. Job availability and stability are decreasing; more youth are leaving their rural roots; and municipalities are receiving less funding yet are having to take on more responsibilities. Confronting these challenges can be accomplished when local residents envision and plan for a better future.

The Upper St-John River Valley-Future Community Planning Project aims to facilitate this process by bringing together the regional communities to engage in positive planning based on an appreciation of all the valuable qualities the region has to offer.

The steps of this process include:

• Organize community planning workshops to envision and identify the positive assets of the community to which local residents want to maintain and build their future upon. This process is called Asset Mapping and focuses on what we have, instead of what we need.

• Suggest an ecological governance model that can be further developed and adapted by the community. Discussions among the communities will allow modifying this model so that it has useful applications to the future sustainability of the valued assets.  

• Measure, document and share learnings, tools and practices which will be developed during the course of the project by dissemination through local networks, holding workshops, working with educational institutions and other means of public exposure.

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