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DEI-AB Framework Toolkit: Community Engagement
Higher Education
Website Toolkits, Tips, and Guides:
- Community-Based Research Templates – Indigenous Wellness Research Institute, University of WashingtonSeries of documents for developing community-based research, particularly when working with Indigenous communities.
- Community Engagement Toolbox – Center for Economic and Community Development, Pennsylvania State UniversityThis toolbox provides a variety of resources, information, and strategies to ethically engage communities.
Webinars and Lectures
- Scholarship in Practice Lecture Series – UNLVAligned with UNLV’s Top Tier goal of community engagement, the free Scholarship in Practice Web Lecture Series is a forum offered to local and national communities to discuss critical issues and propose concrete solutions on topics related to PK-20 education and mental health.
- Place-Based Community Engagement in Higher Education – Campus CompactWidely known through the work of the Harlem Children’s Zone and the federal government’s Promise and Choice Neighborhood programs, geographically specific community engagement initiatives have the potential to positively address the challenges of inequity and injustice within our communities
Community Planning
Website Toolkits, Tips, and Guides:
- Arts and Planning Toolkit to Creative Engagement- Metropolitan Area Planning Council, BostonThis toolkit specifically entails creative engagement, which is an approach to community engagement that uses creative tools and artistic experiences to help diverse stakeholders imagine new approaches to planning processes and spark creative problem solving.
- Tools and Resources for Advocacy and CommunicationAdvocacy and Communication Solutions is a national communication, advocacy and strategy development consulting firm that has worked with clients for more than 15 years to help broaden and expand community engagement across sectors.
- Principles of Ethical and Effective Service - Haas Center for Public Service, Stanford UniversityBased on principles of humility, respect and inclusion, reciprocity, preparation, safety and well-being, accountability, evaluation, and learning and reflection, this guide provides a series of questions for planning and reflective purposes.
- Best Practices for Meaningful Community Engagement- Groundwork USAGroundwork USA is a network of local organizations devoted to transforming the natural and built environment of low-resource communities—a national enterprise with local roots, working at the intersection of the environment, equity, and civic engagement.
- Community Engagement – Community Planning ToolkitCommissioned by the Big Lottery Fund of the National Lottery, Community Places put together a toolkit for designing and implementing engagement activities in community planning projects
Webinars and Lectures
- Authentic Community Engagement - Best Practices for Equitable Work - America WalksAmerica Walks is a national nonprofit that advances safe, equitable, accessible, and enjoyable places to walk and move by giving people and communities the resources to effectively advocate for change. This webinar includes dialogue with active transportation professionals, nonprofit leaders, and equitable engagement experts around what it means to practice and build authentic communit
Articles
- Meaningful engagement in research: Community residents as co‐creators of knowledgeCommunity psychologists have contributed significantly to the body of literature on community-based participatory research (CBPR) and its application in understanding and addressing health and community participation disparities. At the core of CBPR are mutually beneficial partnerships with communities, whereby community members’ voices are heard and they become co-researchers, helping guide the research process.
- Decolonization is not a metaphorDecolonization brings about the repatriation of Indigenous land and life; it is not a metaphor for other things we want to do to improve our societies and schools. The easy adoption of decolonizing discourse by educational advocacy and scholarship, evidenced by the increasing number of calls to “decolonize our schools,” or use “decolonizing methods,” or, “decolonize student thinking”, turns decolonization into a metaphor. […] Because settler colonialism is built upon an entangled triad structure of settler-native-slave, the decolonial desires of white, nonwhite, immigrant, postcolonial, and oppressed people, can similarly be entangled in resettlement, reoccupation, and reinhabitation that actually further settler colonialism
Podcasts & Blogs
Health based
Website Toolkits, Tips, and Guides
- Community Engagement Guide - Washington State Department of HealthThis guide informs the mission of Washington State Department of Health to protect and improve the health of all people in Washington State. Community engagement efforts have the potential to advance health equity, promote social connection, strengthen cross-sector partnerships, and build trusting relationships with the communities.
Articles
- The three Rs: How community-based participatory research strengthens the rigor, relevance, and reach of science.In the last few decades, community-based participatory research (CBPR) has emerged as an important approach that links environmental health and justice advocates with research institutions to understand and address environmental health problems. CBPR has generally been evaluated for its impact on policy, regulation, and its support of community science. However, there has been less emphasis on assessing the ways in which CBPR (re)shapes and potentially improves the scientific enterprise itself. This commentary focuses on this under-emphasized aspect of CBPR—how it can strengthen science.
Podcasts and Blogs
- Reimagining Community Engagement for a Post-COVID WorldThis opinion piece discusses how colleges need to adapt their approaches to developing community partnerships and programs in response to the pandemic.
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