1. Collaboration in the Settlement Sector
Of Ontario
Douglas.Bastien@OCASI.org
June 2011

2. Discussion Outline
Why collaborate
How to collaborate
Tool selection
Tools comparison
3. Topic
Capacity: Interaction, Community, Online Tools
Capacity supports
Community
People, knowledge
Interaction
Conferences, Learning events
Online Tools (ie: Web 2.0)
Collaborative tools
Social Media
4. Collaborating & learning
from each other
5. Be the change, support it among others
6. Community building
high value information sharing
7. Capacity Building
communicate, share, coordinate, network,
Information, knowledge,
Transparently, openly
8. Rationales
9. Role of OCASI in Sector Capacity Development
OCASI has a value-added role of bringing members together
It is prohibitive for workers to connect with each other.
10. Collaboration: helps OCASI fulfill its mandate
Best Practices & Information-Sharing:
Sharing common information
Getting Best Practices
Being a fly-on the wall to interactions
Encourage participation & information-sharing:

Provide the tools;

11. Opportunity to improve materials & products; 12. Incentives, recognition, referrals;Result: Increased capacity in the sector.
13. Role of Capacity
Enhance the organizational and service capacities of
members and
relevant professional development activities;
Innovation:
Outreach and promotion strategies;
enhance sector usage
enhance awareness of
new tools,
methodologies,
service model
professional development opportunities.
Building collaboration and sharing of resources and information in the sector.
14. Capacity-building summarised
Target outcome:
I want to be involved with OCASI
15. Valuable resources for us from the sector
Insight/Knowledge/Information
Feedback
Engagement
More
16. Valuable outputs from us to the sector

Know-how

17. Coordination 18. Collaboration 19. Skills-building/PD 20. Networking 21. Value 22. etc