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Community Assets and Needs <br />An asset is some aspect of your community <br />that is a good, valued, and /or healthy resource. <br />These resources may include community <br />buildings, subsistence lands, religious grounds, <br />people, ideas, and ways of living. Knowing <br />your assets will help your community to decide <br />what it needs to work on and what it already <br />has to meet its goals. Most community needs <br />can be divided into the following areas: capital <br />projects and infrastructure, social, health, and <br />cultural services, economic development, job <br />training, education, and capacity building, and <br />environmental quality. <br />f.� <br />a <br />r. <br />INLAS <br />Kiana Hodson, Willow <br />One useful tool to help determine many of your community needs is "7 Generations: Addressing <br />Environmental Issues for the Future Generations of Rural Alaska ". This document helps you assess <br />environmental and core service needs like sewer, water, and solid waste management. The "Rural <br />Sanitation Guide" can help your community decide on what sanitation designer system best matches <br />your community's long -term need. It is a helpful tool for planning rural sanitation projects. <br />A Map of Your Community <br />A map can express what is important about your area. A map can express the place that your <br />community values. A map can tell what places need to be respected and what areas you want <br />to protect for the future. It can help direct where new projects will and won't be located. You <br />can mark important buildings, subsistence food areas, sacred places, or areas that flood. This <br />information can then guide engineers and designers as they develop new projects. <br />Building Your community Strategic <br />Plan Priorities <br />Your values, goals, and needs help define <br />your strategic plan priorities. They reflect the <br />programs and projects you want to develop <br />in your community. As you define your <br />priorities, consider projects that go together. <br />For example, new housing needs water, sewer <br />and roads. If you time your project carefully, <br />you can ensure that projects and programs <br />are whole and com letin Coordinatin ro'ects <br />Brittncc Brower, Barrow <br />Aga a <br />� Tye <br />s <br />- <br />4� <br />F 5 1 <br />often saves time and money and results in a better outcome. <br />Implementation Strategy <br />The scoping sheet defines in more detail projects or programs. The action plan outlines the steps <br />needed to get the project done. When you break a big project into small do -able steps it will become <br />clear and easy to stay on task and succeed. This element ensures that you can make each item <br />in your plan's priority lists happen. <br />8 Community Strategic Plan Guide and Form - A Straightfoward Way to Get What You Need <br />