Over the years SCOPE has engaged residents in conversations around a number of citizen-chosen topics, focusing on possibilities for the future. SCOPE processes free people to innovate and create new approaches to change. Each topic produced a community report designed to spur citizen-led action to create meaningful community change.

SCOPE continues to work at many scales in the communitiy - the micro scale of neighborhoods, the meso of citizen workgroups and the macro of public policy decisions and regional impact.

• Aging with Dignity and Independence (ongoing)
• Institute for the Ages (ongoing)
• Neighborhoods Initiative (ongoing)
• Aging: The Possibilities (2009)
• Race & Cultural Relations (2008)
• Community Change: Redevelopment & Infill (2004)
• Family Violence (2004)
• Mental Health (2003)
• School Dropout (2003)
• Affordable Housing (2002)
• Traffic Flow & Congestion (2002)

With some community topics, SCOPE produces a short documentary. Known as “The Stories Project,” these locally-produced films are a collection of stories told by Sarasota County residents about their experiences with issues ranging from affordable housing to active aging.

If your organization would like a screening of one of The Stories Project documentaries, call SCOPE at 941-365-8751.

DVD and VHS copies are also available for purchase.

SCOPE INITIATIVE DOCUMENTARIES
Family Violence - "Battered, Bruised & Broken"
Mental Health - "Good Days, Bad Days"
School Dropout
Community Change: Redevelopment & Infill - "Faces of Places"
Aging: The Possibilities