2024-06-28 Meeting

Project Launch meeting for 2024 Provincial ActionPlan

Via Zoom

Present: Province: Miranda & Maps; Elderberries: Lynn, Renée, Barend, Dan (late) (notes)

Major Adjustments

  1. The project is out of the new (or re-newed) Office of Equity and Anti Racism.
  2. The project is not about hate; it is a totally different project from the "Hate" survey
  3. The project is about "Barriers To Inclusion" that elder Q folk face in accessing Provincial Government services
  4. We will be running the meetings from a five-question survey they have provided. So, we will probably not need to do an initial Google Survey (but given "Other Notes #1" below - they do not care if we do or don't.)
  5. Recording the meeting with audio or video, even if the recordings are destroyed, even if only us listen to them, is not allowed. We are only allowed to make notes.
  6. Dan will NOT be doing any analysis and writing the report, so his $$ will be much smaller.
  7. Deadline: they wanted the consulting done by end of July and the report by end of August; we said that wasn't possible. Miranda has since agreed that we can do the "engagement" -- the meetings -- in August.

Other Notes

  1. The client reiterated that they do not want to know "how the sausage is made" -- what format the meetings are, how many, where they are, how we invite people.
  2. We don't have to restrict people to talking about Nova Scotia provincial services; if they stray into municipal or federal things that's OK.
  3. Miranda will send me lists of example services: Health, Education, Transportation, Social Services, Environmental Protection, Economic development, Job Creation, Justice, Culture Heritage & Tourism, etc etc.
  4. We should ask the Nova Scotia Accessibility Directorate for ASL Interpetation.
  5. Yes, they are very interested in distinguishing urban and rural voices.
  6. Yes, we can talk about the past, but we really should focus on current problems, and yes absolutely, concerns about the future, and what people think could be changed.
  7. Topic: barriers to long-term-care: e.g. Renée: long term care intake forms which only have "Male" & "Female" categories.
  8. Data has to be anonymized: specific place names and people can not be handed to the Province.

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