Community Engagement
Office of Performance Improvement (OPI)
Sitemap: Community Engagement
Overview
- Benefits of Community Engagement
- Two-Way Communication
- Models of Community Engagement
- Principles of Community Engagement
- Assessing Your Organization's Readiness to Engage the Community
- Recommendations for Parent Participation
- What Is Public Participation?
Resources & Tools
Things to Know when Choosing Tools
- Characteristics of needs assessment tools
- Choosing programs: Is this program right for us?
- Getting a Start on Citizen and Stakeholder Participation
(PDF: 50KB /12 pages)
Strategies and Skills
- Community engagement strategies: opportunities to participate
- A brief overview of data collection methods
- When to use focus groups
Tools
- Community opinion survey
- Minnesota Guide to Data Indicators for County Health Assessments (PDF: 159KB / 16 pages)
- Sample survey of community activities
Evaluating Your Success
Groups & Events
Charges, Missions, and Program Overviews
- Attributes of a Successful Group or Committee
- Community Advisory Council (Purpose, Roles and Responsibilities, Resource Members, Decision-making Process)
- Mission: How Clear Is Your Mission?
- Mission: Developing a Mission Statement
- Writing: Writing an Overview of your Program, Group, or Task Force (Features to Include)
Meeting Protocol: Conducting and Facilitating Meetings
- Meeting Tips
- Parliamentary Procedure
- Types of Motions
- The First Meeting
- What to Do When You Have Problems in the Meeting
Facilitating and Encouraging Participation
- Coalitions: Is Your Coalition on the Road to Success?
- Community Opinion Survey
- A Tale of Two Open Houses: The Open House Technique
- The Basics of Creating a Participation Strategy
- The First Meeting
- Volunteers - Responsibilities and Rights
Decision-Making Styles and Models
Multicultural Communities
- About Multicultural Communities
- Characteristics of Culturally Competent Organizations
- Ground Rules: Cross-Cultural Dialogue
- Moving Along the Continuum
