Purposes

Franklin and Hampshire Counties

Adult Basic Education

Community Planning

Purposes:

The ultimate goals of Strategic Community Planning are:

To ensure that students have access to the broadest possible array of education, employment & training, and health & human service opportunities they need to successfully pursue their goals and objectives.

To establish protocols for interagency collaboration and coordination of services to under educated or limited English populations

To ensure that adult basic education takes its place as a key ingredient in every organization's, community's, and region's plans to improve the quality of life.

The instrumental purpose of the Assets and Needs Statement is to serve as the basis for Strategic Community Planning with relevant and supportive partners.

To account for the needs of all under-educated and/or limited English proficient constituencies in the Greenfield/Montague, Northampton/Amherst, Orange, and Ware communities.

To document and build partnerships and collaborations among organizations with an interest in and the potential for supporting services to these populations.

To document student access to the array of education, employment & training, and health & human service opportunities that so many of them need in order to successfully pursue their goals and objectives.

To document barriers and gaps in such services.

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