The City of Brooks and the Newell Regional Expo have recently created a partnership with the Human Rights Education and Multiculturalism Fund to fund and support the City’s Welcoming and Inclusive Community program.
Using grant funding from Expo, which was originally provided by the Human Rights Education and Multiculturalism Fund, the City will hire a Welcoming and Inclusive Community Coordinator. This Inclusion Coordinator will be responsible for implementation of the Welcoming and Inclusive Community Plan, conducting a diversity audit, reviewing City publications and communications, and working towards other internal and external goals.
The City is providing $30,000 towards this project and Newell Regional Expo is supplying an additional $30,000. The Inclusion Coordinator will be hired on as a contract position until February 2012.
Building and promoting Brooks as a welcoming and inclusive community has tangible impacts on the economic, social and cultural fabric of our community. The creation of this position will support the City’s commitment in taking a leadership role to ensure a welcoming, inclusive and diversity-friendly municipal structure, both internally and externally. This is consistent with Objective #8 of the City of Brooks Strategic Objectives 2011-2013 which states a commitment to “Implementation of Welcoming and Inclusive
Community Plan.”
Since its creation in 2008, part of the vision of Newell Regional Expo has been to “encourage welcoming and inclusive communities within healthy economic and social systems”. This partnership with the City of Brooks will bring our region one step closer to this vision. Expo funding has also been provided to the Celebrating Expo Communities Committee to assist with other welcoming and inclusive programming being completed within the County of Newell.
For more information on this new partnership, please contact Lisa Tiffin, Sustainability Coordinator, at 403- 362-333