Community engagement and the Regent Park redevelopment : Community engagement team report, July to December 2002

Using those time frames, and a rough structure and outline of the data required for the project, the Community Engagement Team reached out to the residents of Regent Park to enable them to design the process. [...] Finally, the data caused the Community Engagement Te a m to conflate communities that appear similar in Statistics Canada reporting but are, in fact, culturally diverse, in particular, the Afro-Caribbean community and the Afro-Canadian com- m u n i t y. The Community Engagement Team reviewed school registrations in the community to iden- tify recent shifts in immigration and determined that a larg [...] The Community Engagement Te a m explained the methodology and the underlying logic of the selection process to concerned re s i- dents in an open way, identifying from the out- set the objective of resolving the concern. [...] In keeping with the community-driven model, the Community Engagement Team agreed to work with each of the concerned communities to develop a consultation process appropriate to the community, despite the directions the research suggested. [...] This exercise was designed reflection of the input, the to provide a safe means for people to participate from the outset of process of checking back the meeting and as a means to recognize and to celebrate the diver- reassured everyone and sity in the room.