The health planner's toolkit : Community engagement and communication

The engagement of a number of stakeholder groups will be necessary as a way to understand the issues of neurological impairment and to strengthen the responses of communities to people with neurological impairments and their families. [...] Page 2 Section 1: The Why and the What of Community Engagement A few definitions (chosen from thousands of definitions) show the diversity of the term “community”: “A community is a group of people who are socially interdependent, who participate together in discussion and decision making, and who share certain practices that both define the community and are nurtured by it.” Robert Bellah et al. [...] Page 10 Section 1: The Why and the What of Community Engagement Section 2 Varieties of Community Engagement As the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority points out, typology contains eight types of citizen participation, community engagement comprises “a wide variety of corresponding to the extent of citizens’ power in activities from consultations with the public to determining the end product. [...] These expectations may differ from the expectations of the sponsor – and a process of 1. The length of the engagement: How long will “expectation negotiation” may be necessary to ensure communities be involved in the engagement? [...] Generally, An organization wishing to identify a purpose that defining the purpose precedes defining the community engagement might serve (if the community communities to be involved in achieving the purpose has not already identified the purpose) can do so in two – but unless one can identify the communities to be ways: engaged, it is not possible to negotiate with the communities to establish th