Right now in the bowels of City Hall, the bureaucrats and politicians are planning a propaganda campaign to convince you that dispersing drug addicts to large apartments in neighbourhoods throughout the City of Vancouver is acceptable and proven to work. Here's a sneak preview of City Hall's propaganda campaign financed by your property taxes.
Establish a network of "Community Supporters".
Fraser St. residents believe almost all of the "support" for addict housing in their neighbourhood, came from professionally scripted outside "volunteers" who did not live in their neighbourhood."Community Supporters" to engage neighbourhood.
Then the network of community supporters (whether they are from your neighbourhood or not) will be asked to develop and guide the community engagement process. This means that a small group of biased individuals, actively supported by City Hall will drive the so called "consultation process".Community engagement will begin with small group activities, or even one on one meetings.
"Personnel - communications program should be presented by a minimum of four people. Chosen from local chairperson, government representative, representative from project, sponsor, client/consumer (that's a drug addict in this case) and other service professionals or community leaders."Larger meetings including an "Open House" organized by "community volunteers". 1
"Format: 2-3 hours meetings made up of modular presentations. Suggested topics include:
- The facts about community care.
- Community care as a solution.
- Myths surrounding community care.
- Our community: a dialogue.
- Saturation/ghettoization.
- Zoning and licensing procedures.
- Facility Operation. 2
These propaganda small group sessions, open houses and larger meetings will tell you no specifics about the effectiveness of the proposed drug addict apartments. Fraser St. residents just got "feel good" answers with NO facts or information specifically related to abstinence rates, drug relapse rates, and crime.
Published July, 2006. Revised February 2007.
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