Family and Community Key Outcomes

The Family and Community Working Group is continuing to refine its work and has provided a draft of the key outcomes it will be trying to address as a part of Provo Accelerated.  Once again, comments are welcome and encouraged.

1. Educate Provo Families About Internet Safety
1. Create resources for families to have meaningful conversations about and to develop their own strategy for Internet safety at home that involves the entire family at all ages and stages
1. Discussion guides
2. Videos, webinars, live seminars
3. Consuming media in a healthy, sustainable way
4. Access to and community reviews of existing and new filtering/parental control programs
2. Develop resources to help non-tech savvy families implement safe Internet practices
3. Have a “community Internet safety officer” that would engage residents, students and others in making Provo the world leader in family-friendly Internet resources

2. Provide World-Class Technology Resources For Internet Safety
1. Work with Google Fiber and/or others to develop world-class server-side filtering options
2. Inform the Google Fiber help desk to assist families with filtering options
3. Sponsor local coders and developers hackathons and other tools to create world-class filtering/parental controls programs and services

3. Create A Best Of Breed Provo Community Web Portal To Better Connect Families And Neighborhoods
1. Have a single, integrated and customizable community calendar incorporating civic, arts, education, faith-based, sports and entertainment events with hyperlinks to more information
2. Encourage civic engagement with online community resources, forums, civic education and common interest groups
3. Develop portal applications which enable more effective approaches to creating a more sustainable environment through technology resources
4. Provide resources for community education such as English as a second language, digital literacy, effective civic engagement, etc.
5. Create ways to better share existing video content generated in the community (such as Provo Channel 17) and to produce, upload and share newly created video content in Provo