Gwa’sala-’Nakwaxda’xw Comprehensive Community Planning
What is Comprehensive Community Planning? The Gwa’sala-‘Nakwaxda’xw First Nation has a great opportunity to unite the voices of all community members into a plan that will help us make a healthy happy community that we are all proud of. We have received funds create a CCP, a kind of project that many other bands have done in the past with a lot of success. Below are the answers to some questions that you might have about the CCP. What is a CCP? CCP means Comprehensive Community Plan: CCP Researchers
o Comprehensive means that it covers everything, including health, education, our lands, etc. o Community means that it involves everyone who is considered part of the Gwa’sala-‘Nakwaxda’xw community. It also means that we have to work together to make it happen.
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o Plan means that it will help us make good decisions as a community that speaks with a united voice, through the CCP. Band Employees
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The more people from the community that help, the better the plan will be. The better the plan is, and the more it reflects what the community wants, the better we will be the plan to help the community.
A CCP is NOT: o Only the opinions of the one or two people who are hired to do the research o Only the opinions of Chief and Council o Open to some community members and not others
Why are we doing a CCP? Many things have happened to the Gwa’sala and the ‘Nakwaxda’xw people to bring us to where we are at now. Some of these things were good, like the culture that our ancestors have passed on to us and the beautiful territories that belong to our people. Some of these things were bad, like the relocation to Tsulquate and the abuses of residential school, which have helped cause many of the problems that our people are facing.