BC Rural Network Newsletter
WINTER 2008 TEXT ONLY

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LIRN BC: Providing Learning Opportunities for Rural and Northern BC Communities

As the acronym implies LIRN BC provides support to rural, remote, and northern BC communities to advance community learning through capacity building and collaborative networking on locally relevant
issues.

LIRN BC partners include the BC Rural Network, Canadian Rural Partnership, Self-Help Resource Association of BC (SHRA), Service Canada (New Horizons for Seniors Program) and the Social Planning and Research Council of BC (SPARC BC). Collectively these organizations recognized the need to collaborate in order to provide meaningful opportunities for community learning initiatives. As such they combined their collective expertise and resources to provide locally relevant one or two day community dialogues or workshops to successful applicant communities.

As a collaborative strategy for building community capacity, LIRN BC encourages government (municipal, provincial and federal), First Nations, non-government organizations (community-based, regional and provincial) and businesses to work together by planning, delivering and evaluating a locally relevant learning initiative. Dialogues and workshops facilitated by LIRN BC partners cover a wide range of topics. Some of these include: