When you live in rural, remote, or northern Canada, you know how hard it can be to find and access services – whether it’s services for children, families, youth, adults, or seniors. Even if services are available to you, they are often not available in your own community, during the hours you need them, or in a way that responds to your individual needs. Governments and service agencies across Canada struggle to successfully respond to the specific challenges of rural, remote, and northern communities. Although many communities may face similar challenges, each community is unique in the extent to which these challenges affect service delivery in their community.
To help rural remote northern and aboriginal communities access the services they need, Rural Voices, a national support network, has developed a process called CARS (Communities Achieving Responsive Services). CARS is a series of steps that focus on assisting communities in developing the capacity to build responsive, accessible services and supports for their own community members. CARS is a community owned and community directed process that can be used to both improve how well present services respond to the needs of community people and to help communities develop services that they presently don’t have – but need.
For more a more detailed description of the CARS Process please download the following PDF(s):
To find out more about Rural Voices, visit http://ruralvoices.cimnet.ca
Record of 'Beyond Services' webcast now available.
On October 14, the Council hosted a webcast with Carol Gott speaking on the
topic of community engagement for ECD. A recording of that webcast is now
available at:
http://councilecd.ca/files/videos/2009-10-14_CECD.mov
Needers to Leaders
CARS final report.pdf
Improving Access to Early Child Development
and Parenting Opportunities For Rural Remote
and Northern Families Across Canada:
Final_Evaluation_Report.pdf
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