About the Sandy Hill Community Liaison Committee (SHCLC)
The Sandy Hill Community Liaison Committee is a collaborative effort between 5 different stakeholder groups. In a partnership between Action Sandy Hill, the Sandy Hill Community Health Centre and the City of Ottawa, with the support of facilitators from Canadian Institute for Conflict Resolution (CICR), Sandy Hill community members brought together to discuss the impact of the toxic drug supply and overconcentration of frontline social services in Sandy Hill.
The committee is representative of the broad community, with 5 representatives from each of the 5 stakeholder groups: business representatives; direct service providers; housed residents; people with lived or living experience and indirect services providers.
The Chair of the ASH Community and Social Services Committee sits on the SHCLC as a housed resident representative.
Mission
The SHCLC will provide insights, make connections, put forward recommendations, exchange information and offer suggestions to support the safety and wellbeing of all members of and services in the Sandy Hill community. Specific goals will be agreed upon by the SHCLC in its strategic planning for the short, mid and long term.
Consensus
The SHCLC functions on the basis of consensus. There are 5 levels of consensus for each individual:
1. I say an unqualified yes.
2. I accept the decision.
3. I can live with the decision.
4. I do not fully agree with the decision, however, I will no block it and will support it.
5. I wish to express a dissenting view.
These different levels of consensus will allow the committee to come to comprise and understanding, while ensuring that one or two dissenting views will not stop the committee from moving forward, while they will be noted. If there is an entire stakeholder group with a dissenting view, then further compromise is needed and the action, strategy, etc. will not move forward.
The governing documents, grant proposals, advocacy efforts, and strategic priorities have been developed based on this consensus method.
Governing documents, meeting notes, projects, committee members, contact information and events are avaialble on the SHCLC website!