Hunters, Washington Horizons Community Blog

Welcome to Hunters WA Horizons Community Blog! Improving Leadership aimed at reducing Poverty in rural and reservation Communities, From Rice to Fort Spokane

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Hunters Strategic Plan

Each Community's journey through the Horizons Program focused on Community Leadership to Reduce Poverty. To view your Community's Stratecic Plan, visit Horizons II Community Information page, using the link below. Once there, click on your community's link and then on the link for a copy of the Community Strategic Plan.
  • Horizons Community Information

Top 3 Areas of Concern from Horizons Surveys

#1 Improve Economy - 60%
#2 Youth Activities - 44%
#3 Health Care - 42.5%

Ideas to Improve Economy #1

Community-based Transportation
Child care facility
Red Cross Certified babysitters
Adult education accessibility
Food bank expansion
Computers for public
Swimming Instructor
Life Guards
Hire people from our community- not from outside

Ideas for Youth Activities #2

Portable BBQ on Trailer for fair, family orientated activities, park events, game events

Community Center (play, meetings, fund raisers) a place for kids and adults to go and do things

Skateboard park where kids could go every day

Movies at school gym

Pool - swimming lessons, exercise, hydrotherapy

Better playground equipment in park

High school seniors on school board

"community watch" call program with senior companionship

Community resource directory

Grange utilization - community center

Ideas for Health Care #3

24-hour on-call nurse to help give information/medical advice

Pool: hydrotherapy, exercise to combat obesity

Meals on wheels

Health Clinic

Have someone be here in fall season to give everyone flu shots, so our elderly won't have to travel so far to get them!
  • Hunters Area Horizons' Community Survey, Fall 2007
  • Hunters Area Horizons' WSU webpage

General Information

  • Community Awareness (22)
  • Community Change (9)
  • Community Participation (28)
  • Community Resources (24)
  • Home (1)
  • Leadership Awareness (2)
  • Leadership Change (4)
  • Leadership Expansion (9)
  • Leadership Maintenance (1)
  • Poverty Action (20)
  • Poverty Awareness (12)
  • Poverty Mobilizing (3)
  • Poverty Structural Changes (3)

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11/20/2007

Hunters Horizons Visioning 11 17 07

Labels: Community Awareness, Community Change, Community Participation, Community Resources, Leadership Change, Leadership Expansion, Poverty Action, Poverty Awareness, Poverty Mobilizing

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