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== Details == | |||
Departments: Services to businesses and organizations (including Social Economy enterprises), Employability | |||
services (job seeking and training assistance for unemployed adults), and a Youth job centre. | |||
Sector based assemblies: [[Manufacturing Enterprises]]; [[Services and New Economy | Sector based assemblies: [[Manufacturing Enterprises]]; [[Services and New Economy | ||
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[[Social economy enterprises]]; [[Community organizations]]; [[Health and education | [[Social economy enterprises]]; [[Community organizations]]; [[Health and education | ||
institutions]]; [[Cultural organizations]]; and [[Participants in RESO activities]]. | institutions]]; [[Cultural organizations]]; and [[Participants in RESO activities]]. | ||
RESO (Regroupement economique et social du Sud-Ouest) was the first [[CDEC]]. | RESO (Regroupement economique et social du Sud-Ouest) was the first [[CDEC]]. | ||
http://www.lescdec.qc.ca/data/downloads/Fev_07_socialeconomy.pdf - Social economy and local development in Montréal (Morrisette) | http://www.lescdec.qc.ca/data/downloads/Fev_07_socialeconomy.pdf - Social economy and local development in Montréal (Morrisette) | ||
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== Transformed by Community Economic Development summary == | |||
Southwest Montréal - from an [[industrial centre]] to poverty. [[PEP]] and RESO successful [[intervention]] through [[citizen engagement]] of socio-economic partners - organization must be composed of [[elected]] representatives of different sectors of the community (four from business, four from [[community organizations]], two union [[leaders]], two associate members known for their influence. Board grew to include local institutions, residence and elected municipal officials), committees and forums, AGM; | |||
[[Collaboration]] supporting key [[community projects]], [[economic]], employment and [[recreational]] [[tourism]] plans; [[employment support]] and [[advice]] to [[entrepreneurs]], | |||
[[maintained]] [[industrial zoning]], [[networking]] between businesses, workshops for training, secondary | |||
school for adults developed with [[industry]], [[unions]] and [[literacy]] organizations. [[Unemployment]] in the SW still exceeds [[Montréal]] average, but decreased by 5%. | |||
Issues of: A partnership, or [[farming out]] government work? | |||
Political and [[financial]] autonomy. | |||
* http://library.athabascau.ca/drr/redirect.php?id=29557 - "Transformed by community economic development" | |||