Keynote Presentation
Bill Ninacs is a consultant, researcher and trainer in the fields of community development, community economic development, and the social economy, currently working out of a worker co-operative in Victoriaville, Québec (Canada), that he chairs. His Ph.D. dissertation was on the types and processes of empowerment in CED initiatives in Québec. For a number of years, Bill chaired the CED training institute based in Montréal, and also helped found the Québec Council on Social Development. He is currently a member of the Board of Overseers of Southern New Hampshire University’s School of CED.
As a person with multiple disabilities, Bill has also been involved in numerous social movements concerned with the rights of physically challenged individuals.
Description of Presentation
What makes a community competent? What does it take to ensure that this competence is maintained in difficult circumstances and increased when conditions are more favourable? Hint: institutions, organizations and individuals all have roles to play. And what has any of this to do with health and safety?
William Ninacs will be answering these questions and more at this year’s Institute...
William A. Ninacs
P.O. Box 92
Victoriaville, Qc G6P 6S4
Telephone: (819) 758–7401
Email: ninacs@videotron.ca
Atlantic Summer Institute on Healthy and Safe Communities
