Thank you Kern County! We would like to thank the citizens of Kern for participating with us in an ambitious schedule of community conversations across our 8,000-square-mile county. As we compiled results of the conversations, we realized that “community” was the unifying theme of every single conversation. Building community has become the central theme in everything we are now doing; including creating community among volunteers, partners and within our own team. We are also starting to strategically share the public knowledge we had acquired with our board, our volunteers, elected officials as well as other social service organizations and community leaders. When we talked about community, for example, we noted that here in Bakersfield, people talked about a need to bring together people from diverse neighborhoods. In smaller, outlying towns, we found that people spoke of the need for a physical gathering place, such as a community center. We also spoke with individual elected officials and community leaders to talk through various community concerns and themes we had learned, enabling us to provide them with specific examples of the most pressing needs and aspirations of the constituents in their very own districts. We are learning to scale and adapt our programmatic efforts to the aspirations and realities of the communities we serve and we could not have done that with your help, input and honesty. We are looking forward to collaborating with you on improving everyones lives in Kern County in 2015.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 18:17:00 +0000
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