Shared Space: The Communities Agenda

An Online Community for your Learning Circle

 

Welcome to online community for the Shared Space learning circle. In this space and on the calls, we will discuss the ideas contained in Sherri’s book, Shared Space: The Communities Agenda.

Community interventions to promote economic and social well-being are not new. What is new is the way in which communities are organizing, both strategically and comprehensively, to achieve their goals. The communities agenda consists of three key parts: their vision and associated goals, the methods they employ to attain these objectives and the actions they take to create a supportive context for their work.  

This learning circle will discuss exemplary practices from communities from across the country. Taken together, these examples speak to the possible and to the hope for a better future – which, itself, comprises the core of resilience. For more on the book, click here. To order your copy of Shared Space, click here.

About Sherri Torjman

Sherri Torjman is the Vice President of the Caledon Institute of Social Policy and author of  Shared Space: The Communities Agenda. A passionate and engaging advocate for social change, Sherri’s emerging work focuses on ways communities can collaborate for impact to promote resilience and innovation.

Sherri is the author of many Caledon reports including Reclaiming Our Humanity, Strategies for a Caring Society, and The Social Dimension of Sustainable Development. She has also written four books on disability policy and a series of reports for the National Council of Welfare. Over the years, Sherri has advised several House of Commons committees on social policy reform and is a former board member of the Trillium Foundation.

 

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