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📣 Community Voices: How Has Engagement Changed Your Worldview?

How has community engagement has impacted your worldview, your community connections, or your vision for the future?

"I've learned so much from other people. As well as seeing all the things that are possible in our world, and seeing people dream beyond the current conditions we're living in."

- Isabela Villareal, Next Up Oregon, PSU Alum

You did it!

Whether you completed one module or all five, we hope you found this useful.

Together we explored the three core questions of the toolkit:

What knowledge will help you build a sense of civic identity and community agency?
What is important to consider and care about in your community engagement practice?
What skills do you need to engage effectively with and in the community?

As a reminder here is what we learned throughout these five modules:

Module 1:

Distinguish and describe your own motivations, interests, and passions for engaging with your communities.
Explore the diversity of ways to get engaged and work towards social change.

Module 2:

Identify the skills and experience you want to utilize, and the level of commitment you are ready to offer.
Develop understanding of the communities and opportunities you want to engage.
Create and implement an outreach plan to get started with confidence.

Module 3:

Recognize and understand ethical community engagement.
Distinguish and articulate your own ethical worldview and the possible impacts of your position within your communities.
Practice authentic relationship-building to engage in interpersonal and systemic social change.

Module 4:

Proactively balance community engagement with your other responsibilities.
Gather personal and community-based insights to bring cultural humility into your engagement practice.
Develop partnership communication skills to set mutual goals, exchange meaningful feedback, and successfully close a community engagement experience.

Module 5:

Create opportunities for others to join you in collaborative social change and engagement.
Practice emergent leadership & group facilitation skills, applying principles of ethical and effective community engagement.
Plan collaborative community engagement events or opportunities, using adaptive and accessible event planning tools.

Did you complete the reflection actitivies? Congratulations!

By collecting all of the work and reflection you have done over the course of learning with this toolkit, you have a way to return to what you have learned and explored. Think of it as a Community Engagement portfolio.

Further Resources

How will you continue to "let knowledge serve the city" during your time at PSU and into the future?

As you continue your journey into community engagement, below are some additional resources to support you.

Get Connected!

There are so many people and places at PSU, where folks are engaging as community and with our commnities. Explore all the ways you can do this work with others!

Find Student Engagement Support Now!
- The amazing staff, programs and events at the Student Community Engagement Center are waiting for you. The offer year-long programs, term-long programs, and one-day events. They even offer scholarships for community engagement.!
Engage Through Your Senior Capstone!
- To graduate from Portland State, you will do some community engagement in your Senior Capstone course, working on a community project with students from all different majors, to imagine and co-create a just world. Think ahead, which Capstone do you want to do? Explore over 200 options in the Capstone Capsule.
- Want to engage more deeply? Pursue a minor in Civic Leadership
Get Your Professors Involved!
- Encourage your faculty to include community engagement in their course! In the Office of Academic Innovation, Community-based Learning folks there have so many resources to help get started.
Connect with Community-Based Learning Resources by PSU Staff & Faculty, past and present!
- Learning Through Serving by Cress, Collier, Reitenauer & Associates
- All Together Now Card Deck by Alkazweeny and Fitzmaurice

Have an idea about other resources and connections?
Reach out: volunteer@pdx.edu

Thank you for your engagement!

The time and energy you share to support and connect with your communities matters.

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