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Southeast Quality of Life <br />Strategic Neighborhood Action Plan <br />Use of Existing Individual Capacities <br />individual residents have skills that are not being recognized as such or used to <br />support themselves, each other, or the neighborhood as a whole. Two elements <br />of the strategy the Neighborhood Directory and Sharing Success Stories are <br />intended to increase individual awareness of the power of the individual to solve <br />their own problems and those of their neighbors. The Directory will identify <br />individual skills which can be shared or traded with others in the neighborhood <br />to make the lives of each a little easier. The Directory will also make others <br />aware of the special needs of individuals in the neighborhood. Knowledge that <br />everyone has something needed and something to share builds individual self- <br />esteem and pride in the neighborhood. <br />Wide spread Knowledge of and Access to Neighborhood Resources <br />The SEQL neighborhood has often operated as if it were isolated from important <br />resources. In fact, the neighborhood is well located to key resources but has <br />felt incapable of accessing those resources effectively. The Neighborhood <br />Directory will identify resources held by neighborhood residents, businesses, <br />and institutions and explain how those resources may be accessed. Creating <br />Block Captains and the Telephone Tree will set up a formal line of <br />communication between residents and SEQL to better access existing <br />resources. Building Bridges with Institutions will help the neighborhood to access <br />resources both inside and outside of the neighborhood by establishing SEQL as <br />an equal partner in negotiations for goods, services, and funds. <br />Neighborhood Self-sufficiency <br />Neighborhood self-sufficiency is a long-term goal and it may not be totally <br />achieved. True self-sufficiency would mean a neighborhood that could not only <br />survive on its own but which would strive for separation and isolation. This is <br />unnecessary and unwarranted. The SEQL neighborhood needs to reach a level <br />of self-sufficiency in which it is functioning as a neighborhood making collective <br />decisions for the good of the whole and the individuals that make up the <br />neighborhood feel capable of making the choices they face in daily life. <br />in a practical sense, each of the individual strategy elements works toward the <br />goal of Neighborhood Self-sufficiency. The identification and utilization of each <br />83 <br />