How would a Community Gateway offer options to communities?
A Community Gateway would offer options to communities in Local Community Areas (defined to match local perceptions of community areas) using a Community Options Study process. This process would involve working in local communities to: • identify the issues important to people in the area; • build the capacity of the local community to address those issues; • identify options available to communities to tackle issues; • make connections between the community and service providers relevant to the issues identified; • develop an action plan for the way forward, signed up to by the community and relevant service providers (including the Gateway); • ensure that the community as a whole supports the action plan. The options study process would be revisited on a regular basis as each community’s aspirations developed. The process for carrying out options studies and their outcomes would be different dependent on the existing community capacity in each area.
