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MUNICIPAL, PUBLIC AND COMMUNITY SECTOR

A public intention becomes real when a resident can understand it, reach it and take part in it.

Between a municipal decision and a person's experience, several parties are involved : elected leaders, managers, public teams, community organizations, volunteers, employers and local institutions. Mosaïca helps connect them so that welcoming, access to services and participation become a collective capacity.

  1. Collective vision
  2. Public administration
  3. Services
  4. Community relays
  5. Resident experience
An intention that travels down to the resident and an experience that travels back up to the institution Five levels are stacked: the collective vision, the public administration, the services, the community relays and the resident experience. A gold line descends from one level to the next, changing hands at each relay. A second, finer line then rises on the right back to the collective vision: consultation, participation and lived experience come back to the organization and shape what follows.

The intention travels down The experience travels back up

WHEN PUBLIC INTENTION MEETS THE TERRITORY

When several parties pursue the same objective without always sharing the same reference points.

  1. A municipal direction is understood differently depending on the department or the partner.
  2. A resident does not always know who does what, or which door to go to.
  3. Front-line teams encounter new situations without shared reference points.
  4. Consultations reach most easily the people who already know how the public system works.
  5. New residents discover local services at the moment a difficulty arises.
  6. Municipalities, employers and community organizations share an intention, but their responsibilities overlap or leave gaps with no relay.

One community. Five places where public intention takes shape.

01

The collective vision

Elected officials, senior management and public bodies define the commitments, the priorities and the direction that should guide the territory.

What has to be recognizable across every service and every decision ?

02

The administration and its leadership

They turn direction into responsibilities, programs, processes, communications and real conditions for implementation.

Do the various systems really support the same intention ?

03

Front-line services

Municipal and public employees make the institution concrete. For a resident, an explanation, an answer, a referral or the absence of a relay becomes the experience of public service.

Do the teams have the reference points they need to understand the situation and refer people accurately ?

04

Local partners

Community organizations, volunteers, employers, educational institutions and other bodies extend public action into everyday life.

Do partners know when to welcome, when to refer and when to coordinate ?

05

The resident and the community

A person does not encounter a territory all at once. They discover it through services, school, work, recreation, community organizations, neighbours and opportunities to contribute.

Belonging begins when a person no longer only calls on the community, but can also take part in it.

THREE REALITIES OF THE TERRITORY

Services and access to them

Information can be perfectly clear to the organization and still be hard to understand for someone who knows neither its structures, nor its vocabulary, nor its procedures. Accessibility begins when a service can be understood, found and used.

The same information understood unevenly, then clarified One piece of information reaches three different points of contact. Each produces an uneven level of understanding at first, shown as three bars of different lengths. A moment of clarification brings them to the same level, then a continuous path leads through to the person.

The parties in the territory

A municipality never carries welcoming, participation or lasting settlement on its own. Employers, community organizations, schools, public services, volunteers and residents each hold part of the answer. The territory's capacity depends on the quality of the handovers between them.

Six distinct parties connected by a shared intention Six markers occupy distinct positions and each keeps its own shape: the municipality, public services, employers, community organizations, local institutions and residents. Gold links are gradually drawn between them. No marker dissolves into another: this is coordination, not merger.
  1. Municipality
  2. Public services
  3. Employers
  4. Community organizations
  5. Local institutions
  6. Residents

From welcoming to participation

A welcome event can open a door. It is not enough to build a place. Lasting settlement develops when a person understands their environment, forms relationships, reaches services and finds real opportunities to contribute.

Welcoming means opening. Including means making participation possible.

A marker that moves from the edge to contribution A marker sits at first outside an already-formed group. At each stage — arriving, understanding, forming connections, taking part — a link becomes visible and a possibility for action opens. In the end, the marker does not disappear into the group: it becomes an active point that sends out links of its own.
  1. Arriving
  2. Understand
  3. Forming connections
  4. Taking part

WHAT WE BELIEVE

A welcoming community is not declared. It is organized.

It becomes real when services are understandable, when the parties involved know their role and when residents have genuine opportunities to take part.

WHAT THE INSTITUTION HAS TO MAKE CLEAR

The commitments, the responsibilities, the services, the access mechanisms and the principles that have to be recognizable to everyone.

WHAT THE TERRITORY HAS TO CONNECT

The municipalities, employers, community organizations, institutions and people who step in at different moments of the journey.

WHAT THE COMMUNITY HAS TO MAKE POSSIBLE

Understanding, relationships, contribution, participation and the growth of a sense of belonging.

Mosaïca follows public intention along its whole path.

We do not reduce welcoming to an event or participation to a consultation. We examine how an intention is organized, passed on, understood and experienced across services, partners and points of contact with residents.

  1. Read

    Analyze the direction, the plans, the services, the responsibilities, the processes and the coordination mechanisms.

  2. Listen

    Gather the perceptions of leadership, teams, community organizations, volunteers and the residents concerned.

  3. Connect

    Clarify the roles, the handovers, the shared responsibilities and the situations calling for a joint decision.

  4. Embed

    Turn the observations into practices, tools, training, coordination mechanisms and actions that can be applied across the territory.

Organizational culture · Cultural intelligence · Resident services · Welcoming · Participation · Local coordination

Mosaïca helps public institutions and communities close the distance between their intentions and how residents actually encounter their services and their territory.

  1. Public commitment
  2. Administrative decision
  3. Service delivered
  4. Local relay
  5. Resident experience

THREE WAYS TO ACT

Step in where public intention loses its relay.

CHOOSE AN APPROACH

DIAGNOSTIC OF LOCAL CONSISTENCY AND RESIDENT EXPERIENCE

See where intention becomes a clear service, where the journey fragments and where a relay has to be strengthened.

We examine the direction, the services, the responsibilities, the points of contact and the relationships between the parties involved. The diagnostic makes it possible to tell the journeys that work from the zones of misunderstanding, the responsibilities to clarify and the priority decisions.

DeliverablesMap of points of contact · Resident journeys · Responsibilities to clarify · Action priorities

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Four journeys toward the same person, three of which break Four services start from the same intention and travel toward a person. Three of them show a break, flagged in gold. A line of analysis crosses the diagram and points out the relays to strengthen, until a continuous journey connects the intention to the person.

COORDINATING THE PARTIES IN THE TERRITORY

Bring together the parties who each hold part of the answer.

We create structured spaces in which municipalities, employers, community organizations, institutions and residents can clarify their roles, share their realities and build coordinated action.

This approach can support a municipal initiative, a welcome plan, a consultation, a Regional Roundtable or a collective attraction and settlement project.

DeliverablesShared reading · Partners' roles · Common priorities · Coordination mechanisms

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Six parties converging, then a decision travelling back to them Six trajectories from distinct positions converge on a shared space shown as a gold ring, each keeping its point of origin. A shared decision then travels back out from the centre to the six parties.

TRAINING TEAMS AND HOST COMMUNITIES

Give shared reference points to the people who welcome, refer and create the first connections.

We train municipal employees, managers, volunteers, community organizations, local businesses and engaged residents so that they can understand differences in reference points, avoid quick interpretations and act with greater precision.

The training is adapted to local situations : welcoming a new family, access to services, intercultural communication, civic participation, the role of volunteers and coordination with employers.

DeliverablesTraining path · Local situations · Welcoming tools · Reference points for communication and referral

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A reference point passed on, adapted by each party, then networked A first group receives a shared reference point. It is passed to four parties, each of which adapts it to its own point of contact, shown as a differently shaped marker. The parties then connect to one another: the reference point becomes a shared capacity of the territory.

FOUR MUNICIPALITIES, ONE SHARED CAPACITY

Training a community, not just an organization.

Mosaïca trained people in Girardville, Saint-Thomas-Didyme, Dolbeau-Mistassini and Saint-Prime in order to build shared reference points for welcoming immigrants.

Depending on the community, the sessions brought together municipal employees, volunteers, local business owners and engaged residents. The work covered understanding the experience of arrival, the setting's implicit codes, intercultural communication and the concrete actions that make it possible to welcome and refer people accurately.

The rigour we use in our corporate engagements was carried over to the scale of a community.

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A Mosaïca training session with members of a host community in Lac-Saint-Jean
Mosaïca delivering training to municipal and community stakeholders in Lac-Saint-Jean.

A COMMITMENT THAT GOES BEYOND OUR ENGAGEMENTS

Contributing to how a region presents itself, welcomes people and builds connections.

Mosaïca sits on the organizing committee of Vivre Saguenay, a regional event devoted to attraction and settlement.

That contribution allows Mosaïca to connect the realities of employers, municipal services, community organizations, institutions and people considering settling in the region.

Our place on that committee is not that of an outside observer. It extends our work with employers, municipalities, host communities and the Regional Roundtables.

Mosaïca advises the territory because it also helps it act.

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A local ecosystem whose connections Mosaïca helps build Six markers occupy the territory: municipalities, employers, community organizations, institutions, families and people considering settling here. A seventh marker, smaller and set to the side, stands for Mosaïca: the gold links it brings out connect the others to one another rather than converging on it.
  1. Municipalities
  2. Employers
  3. Community organizations
  4. Institutions
  5. Families
  6. People considering settling here
  7. Mosaïca, a contributing party

A community does not simply retain people.

It gives them reasons to understand the territory, to build connections in it and to take part in it.

Mosaïca helps territories move from one-off welcoming to a lasting collective capacity.

Mosaïca helps organizations close the distance between their intentions and what people experience day to day.

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