2006 NS Contract - Process and Facilitation Consultant Contract for Comprehensive Plan

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V available for affordable housing and generated ideas for improving how those funds are allocated and used. A task force was then formed to continue the collaboration and develop ideas further. • Facilitation of five community dialogue sessions on racism, poverty and inequality in partnership with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) Center for the Study of the American South, the UNC Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center, and the Orange County Human Rights and Relations Commission. Co- facilitator with George Mason University's Conflict Clinic and the Winston - Salem /Forsyth County Neighborhood Justice Center for an innovative year -long community problem solving process convened by the Winston -Salem /Forsyth County Coalition on Drug and Alcohol Problems. Over 60 organizations in the public, private and civic sectors reached consensus on improvements to local substance abuse treatment services. Mediated among sponsors of a proposed group home for people living with AIDS and residents of four surrounding neighborhoods in opposition to the proposal. The parties jointly organized a public forum at which the proposal and neighborhood concerns were discussed. Opposition to the group home dissipated after information was shared, relationships were established, and lines of communication opened across the groups. • Co- Mediator (with Dr. David Godschalk) for multiple parties (Neighborhood Coalition for Responsible Development in Raleigh, the Oberlin Village community, First Colony Property Company, City of Raleigh) in conflict over First Colony Properties' proposal to develop 15 acres as mixed -use infill at Wade Avenue and Oberlin Roads in Raleigh, NC. Facilitation of the County /Schools "Collaboration Work Group," composed of the Chairs, Vice Chairs, and Executive staff persons from the Orange County Board of Commissioners and the Boards of Education for Orange County and Chapel Hill /Carrboro. Since January 2004, the Work Group has identified, clarified, planned, and /or evaluated cross jurisdiction issues such as revisions to local school construction standards, community use of school recreation facilities, and "new paradigm" funding for school -based human services. Consultation to Dr. David Salvesen, Director, UNC -CH Program on Smart Growth and the New Economy, Center for Urban and Regional Studies, for projects in North Carolina and in the Atlanta metropolitan region relating to collaborative planning across school districts and county and municipal governments in public school siting processes, including design and facilitation of the May 2006 Summit on School Facility Siting convened by CURS for over 30 municipal, county, and schools officials from Cabarrus, Guilford, Johnston and Union counties.