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COMM8140: Community Engagement Plan
The purpose of this assignment is to work as a team to develop a Community
Engagement Plan.
Instructions:
• In groups of 6 people you will:
o Identify a community health-related problem, issue or topic that you
think could be improved or addressed.
o The problem, issue or topic can be something you or someone you know
have experienced personally.
• Topic to be approved by Faculty to avoid duplication between groups, and to
ensure an appropriate topic is selected
• As a group, you will develop a community engagement plan that incorporates
components of the community engagement continuum (see the chart below)
• You will identify how you will engage the community to address your identified
problem.
Example problem:
You are a manager in a health care clinic, in a community centre. Several of your staff
have identified they are having challenges finding reliable child care, resulting in having
to take unplanned vacation and sick days. You would like to find a solution to this
problem, through a community engagement plan.
Activity
Inform
Goal
To provide
stakeholders
with balanced
and objective
information to
assist them in
understanding
the problem,
alternatives
and solutions.
Consult
To obtain
stakeholder
feedback on
analysis,
alternatives
and/or
decisions.
Involve
Collaborate
Empower
To work
directly with
stakeholders
throughout the
process to
ensure that
their concerns
and aspirations
are consistently
understood.
To partner with
stakeholders in
each part of the
decision from
development to
solution.
Shared leadership
of community lead
projects, with final
decision making at
the community
level.
Written Submission:
• Pick a community health-related problem, issue or topic that you would like to
address
• Identify why this is an issue that needs to be solved – through evidence or
your own experience
• Your written report should address how you would engage key stakeholders using
the Community Engagement Continuum as follows:
• Inform
• Consult
• Select one of the additional 3 remaining activities to explain in detail
• Ensure you outline how you would achieve the goal of the 3 activities – be specific in
your proposed solutions and plan of action
• Ensure you outline how, who, when and with what deliverables you would achieve
each activity
Format:
• Ensure all group member names and student numbers are on cover page
• 3 pages maximum, double-spaced, 12 point font, maximum
• Use headers as appropriate
• Submit to eConestoga dropbox
• Use APA referencing
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