Orton Family Foundation

For National Community Planning month, we focus on creating successful comprehensive plans that residents feel a sense of ownership about and have a stake in the outcomes. On this call, you’ll hear from three planners who got residents involved through the Community Heart & Soul model. Learn how community engagement leads to meaningful comprehensive plans that align vision and actions based on what matters most to residents. Speakers: --Jane Lafleur, Heart & Soul coach and principal, JB Lafleur Consultants Jane provides community development, planning, citizen engagement and civic leadership training and educational programs throughout Maine and the U.S. Jane received the Professional Planner of the Year award from the Maine Association of Planners and the Northern New England Chapter of the American Planning Association in 2015. --K. Dana Hanley, community development director, Essex, Vermont. Dana played a key role in the development of the Essex comprehensive plan, which received Plan of the Year Award in