2. What is Community Engagement?

[Marshall Mullett]

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In Week One of this class-
– What is community engagement? 1-3 words
– Who is already involved in water protection in your community?
• Side Bar: How are they engaged?
– Who else should be involved? Who is missing?

In Week Two of the class-
– What words stand out? What themes or connections do you see?
– Who is not engaged and why not?
– What specific actions can people take to protect water?
– Actions and barriers to action.

– What specific actions should/can people take to protect water?

[Parker Ayala]

Building permanent relationships (3 words per instructions)

[Marshall Mullett]

Those are three very fine words. I especially like “permanent” as a way of thinking about engaging communities. Too often we look for numbers of people attending a one-day event as engagement. I think it is better to have 10 people show up more than once than to have 50 people show up once.

[Parker Ayala]

building sustainable connections

[Parker Ayala]

Listening to what people are interested in doing not just letting them know what you think is important. Getting people who want to be engaged involved.

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