Community Resilience SSM Summary 2006

SSM's Strengths/Gaps Summary Chart of Resilience Characteristics (2006)

SSM's resilience is reflected in the chart below as being Small, Medium or Large resilience strength or gap. A gap indicates that the characteristic does not exist in the community at this time.

Characteristic	Strengths			Gaps
	Small	Med	Large
People
1. Leadership: diversified, representative	X
2. Leadership: visionary, shares power, consensus	X
3. Community: involved in decisions, inclusive	X
4. Sense of pride		X
5. Feel optimistic (only economic sector does)	X
6. Spirit of mutual assistance/cooperation		X
7. Attachment (want to stay, but no jobs)		X
8. Self reliant	X
9. Support for education (Aboriginal ed. needed)			X
Organizations
10. Organizations for CESD functions (may overlap)		X
11. Organizations partnerships/collaboration		X
Resources
12. Employment beyond single large employer	X
13. Major employers are locally owned	X
14. Has strategy for increasing local ownership	X
15 Alternative economic activity--community owns a major asset (now, not historically)	X
16. Looks outside itself to secure resources	X
17. Emerging markets been identified	X
Community Process
18. Have holistic development plan				X
19. Community involved in community goals				X
20. Ongoing action toward achieving holistic plan's goals				X
21. Ongoing evaluation of holistic plan				X
22. Organizations use holistic plan				X
23. Adopts development plan for all segments of pop.				X

 

23 Resilience Characteristics

People

1. Leadership, formal elected and informal organizational, is diversified and representative of the age, gender and cultural composition of the community.

2. Community Leadership is visionary, shares power and builds consensus.

3. Community members are involved in significant community decisions.

4. The community feels a sense of pride. 

5. People feel optimistic about the future of the community.

6. There is a spirit of mutual assistance and cooperation in the community.

7. People feel a sense of attachment to their community.

8. The community is self-reliant and looks to itself and its own resources to address major issues.

9. There is a strong belief in and support for all education at all levels.

Organizations

10. There is a variety of Community Economic and Social Development CESD organizations in the community such that the key development functions are well-served: Access to Equity; Access to Credit; Human Resource Development; Planning/Research/Advocacy; Infrastructure; Food & Housing; Health & Safety; Culture & Recreation 

11. Organizations in the community have developed partnerships and collaborative working relationships.  

Community Process

12. The community is guided by a holistic development plan which recognizes that development in one has an impact upon other sectors (cultural, social, governance, economic and environment).

13. The community is involved in the creation and implementation of the community vision and goals.

14. There is ongoing action toward achieving the goals in the holistic development plan.

15. There is regular evaluation of progress against the community's strategic goals.

16. Organizations use the holistic development plan to guide their actions.

17. The community adopts a development approach that encompasses all segments of the population.

Resources

18. Employment is diversified beyond a single, large employer.

19. Major employers in the community are locally owned.

20. The community has a strategy for increasing independent, local ownership.

21. There is an openness to alternative ways of earning a living and economic activity.

22. The community looks outside itself to seek and secure resources (skills, expertise, finance) that will address identified areas of weakness.

23. Emerging markets have been identified and strategies have been developed.