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Tribal Resilience & Indigenous Planning Virtual Workshop: Community Engagement
Tribal Resilience & Indigenous Planning Virtual Workshop: Community Engagement
Join KSU Tribal TAB and Partners for the Community Engagement virtual workshop, the fifth installment of the 2021 Tribal Resilience & Indigenous Planning Virtual Workshop Series. In this session, we will explore and practice specific community engagement techniques that are beneficial for facilitating discussions and sharing of ideas within indigenous communities.
Part 2-TRIP Comm Engagement2021.mp4
For today's activities we will be working on group Jamboards. These Jamboards will be public, so please do not put any private information (like contact information) on them. They will also be used by everyone in the workshop, and we ask that you be respectful of other people.
The Jamboards are set up so that you will not need to sign into an account to use them, all you need to do is click on the links provided. However, in order to add photos, you will either have to have the facilitator add them for you, or you sign into a Google Account and add photos yourself. Create a Google Account
We will begin by introducing ourselves and learning how to use Jamboards:
Click here for the Introduce Yourself Jamboard
We will then separate out into breakout rooms to work on four activities: Acculturated SWOT, Focus Groups, World Cafe and Direct-to-Digital Mapping. You can see more about each of these techniques, including the video of the webinar presented in Part 1 by clicking here
Today's Activities
Today's Activities
For this activity we will all use the same Jamboard to introduce ourselves to the group. Please do not put personal information on the Jamboard since it will be public. Instructions for using the Jamboards can be found above. We will be using Jamboards throughout the workshop so please take this time to become comfortable with the way they work.
The PUEBLO Analysis approach was developed and introduced in the fall of 2018 for an evaluation of the BRAVE Program at Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo (YDSP) in El Paso, Texas. The mission of the BRAVE Program, sponsored by the Pueblo’s Department of Tribal Empowerment, is to provide a safe, healthy, and drug-free environment for the Tigua youth at the Pueblo.
The evaluation was conducted to assess the BRAVE program as a whole to better understand:
the program’s current performance;
the external communication between program staff and the extended community;
key elements on how to improve the program from an internal perspective;
collective implementation of new ideas, framework, and practice; and
how to ensure culturally appropriate practices.
Traditionally, this process would use the SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) participatory methodology. Developed in the nineteen-sixties at the Stanford Research Institute, SWOT Analysis has been adapted very successfully by community developers and planners for engaging leaders, administrators, and managers in determining strategies for organizational planning. Participants map out and reflect on the four elements of a SWOT matrix to understand the internal and external influences on an organization and its work and mission. The goal is to refine strategies and approaches to overcome weaknesses and improve efficacy.
Focus Groups - Ted
Focus Groups - Ted
For this activity we will:
Identify an issue that you would like to do a focus group around
What would be the key question that you would like to discuss?
Identify the groups who would be important to bring together
World Cafe - Michaela
World Cafe - Michaela
For this activity we will:
Question/Topic Development - Write 2-3 questions that you wonder about for your community's brownfield(s)? From these questions, can you determine an overarching question that is to be answered by the world cafe process?
Group Composition - Who do you want to be represented? What is your strategy for making sure all the different groups are representative of your community?
Roles - Who will be your note taker on the computer? Who will be your flip chart note taker? Who is the lead group facilitator?
Arranging the Space - What table shapes do you have? Do you want tables? Do you want to be inside or outside? What is the best place to have a world cafe? Do you want to have food? How are the acoustics of the room? Is the room too cold/hot?
Rules of Engagement - Will there be an opening and closing prayer for your session? Who can you ask to do this? How will you deal with disrespectful participants? How will you ensure that everyone feels safe to contribute? How will you ensure anonymity in your data collection? Is there a need for Indigenous-speaking translators?
Materials - Will you use an audio recorder at each table? Do you have it in your budget to transcribe the audio? Do you have access to a portable laptop and does is hold a charge for at least 1.5 hours without being plugged in? Do you want to use flip charts? Do you have easels to prop up the flip charts? Do you have flip chart markers?
Analyzing/Summarizing Together - What themes emerged during your table discussions? How best might we share what we noticed? Will the notetaker or someone else in the group summarize a draft of the group's discussion?
Direct - to - Digital Mapping - Joseph and Cynthia
Direct - to - Digital Mapping - Joseph and Cynthia
For this activity we will:
Develop 3-5 interview questions relevant to your community. Each of these questions must be in a form that can be answered by specifying a location that can be mapped with points, lines and polygons. You will add these questions to our group Jamboard.
You will then switch roles and act as a member of your community to answer the questions. We will assign roles for the interviewer, the mapper, and the recorder to construct an example map.
Although we normally use Google Earth Pro for Direct-to-Digital mapping in communities, we will use Google My Maps for our activity. You can see the group map embedded below. Instructions for editing a My Maps are provided in the slide presentation below.
While we are working on this activity think about what it means to ask place-based questions, and in what situations this type of community engagement may be used in your own work.
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