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Community and Regional Success Stories
Focus Garland County Is Off and Running - May 2002
Focus Garland County, a partnership of eight organizations in
Garland County, was formed for the purpose of developing and
implementing a strategic visioning process in the county. The team
hired Darlene Garrett to facilitate the process.
Here is a report from Darlene: "Focus Garland County is going
great! We have obtained vision ideas from nearly 2000 residents. We
have had meetings in public buildings, churches, neighborhoods,
schools, and with special interest groups. The chambers of commerce
in Hot Springs and Hot Springs Village have hosted special visioning
meetings as well. Our vision meetings will end in May, and we will
begin editing, categorizing, and sorting the ideas. Study-action
teams are poised to roll up their sleeves and begin planning how we
can bring our visions into reality. The community involvement has
been awesome."
With a goal of involving 5,000 citizens in Garland County, Focus
Garland County is well on its way. The following events have already
taken place:
- 29 facilitators have been trained, with 6-8 hours of training and
supervision.
- 62 "Voicing Your Visions" meetings have been held.
- "Voicing Your Visions" sessions have also been held in all of the
high schools.
- Quapaw Technical Institute excused all of its students from
classes to participate in a "Voicing Your Vision" meeting on campus.
- All 4th graders in the county are drawing visions of the future of
the county.
- A Focus Garland County Vision Fair is scheduled for August 5-10.
Congratulations to Focus Garland County - to the founding partner
organizations, to the facilitators, and to Focus Garland County
Coordinator Darlene Garrett - for doing a terrific job. Darlene may
be reached at (501) 318-3628, or
dgarrett@uaex.edu.
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