Define Your Efforts
Define Your Efforts
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Many resources are available to help define what you mean by family and community engagement. These resources can also help you make the case for why it is so important to work with family and communities.
Utilize these resources throughout your efforts to help determine and refresh your dedication to this work.
The Community Engagement Toolkit from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment provides excellent resources to get you started.
The IAP2 Spectrum can help to define and determine where your efforts are along a continuum. Many efforts start with informing, consulting, and involving.
More mature efforts should work toward collaboration and empowerment of families and communities.
The National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement created a resource to define core competencies for those working with families and communities.
FosterClub provided this wonderful resource for key principles of engagement at a glance. You'll find many ways to implement these principles throughout the Family Voice Compass.
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