REGION 2020: CITIZEN INVOLVEMENT
WHAT
• To develop a region where citizens take responsibility over issues of importance
to the regional community, vote responsibly on public issues, and promote
the acceptance of diversity and tolerance for all groups.
WHY
• To improve communication and coordination among communities and among ethnic,
racial, and economic groups.
• To increase citizen involvement that results
in effective change.
WHO SHOULD BE INVOLVED
• Citizens in the region
• Communities
• Region 2020 participants
• The Citizen Participation Program of Birmingham
• The Community Affairs Committee of
• Operation New Birmingham
• Parent-Teacher Associations
• National Coalition Building Institute (NCBI)
• National Conference of Community and Justice (NCCJ)
• Greater Birmingham Ministries
• Alabama Arise
• The Nonprofit Resource Center
• Junior leagues of the region
• Leadership programs throughout the region
• Regional planning commissions
• City of Sylacauga
• City Board of Education Citizenship Trust (Montevallo)
WHO WILL WHO WILL BENEFIT
• Citizens
• Local communities
• Governments Businesses
• Community organizations
HOW
Strategy
Create an organization of ethnically and racially diverse people from
across the region to meet regularly and share ideas about what
they want to see
in their communities.
Related strategies: Neighborhoods
and Communities, and Human and
Race Relations.
Action Steps
Region 2020 convenes the Region 2020 workgroups that have expressed
interest in a citizen involvement participation process to provide
input into
the best methodology and programs for the continued involvement
of citizens in the implementation of the Region 2020 vision
and to discuss
shared
community partners.
Region 2020 assists in organizing a forum of community partners.
The community partners will:
1. Discuss barriers to citizen involvement.
2. Discuss strategies for citizen involvement.
3. Identify successful models.
4. Develop an association/organization.
5. Identify resources for implementation.
Role of Region 2020
• To facilitate the forum of community partners.
• To assist in the development of a regional program
Cost
To be determined
