Presentation on community outreach and civic engagement strategies by Rebecca Sanborn Stone. Delivered at the first Community Resilience Organizations retreat, May 18, 2015. www.gocros.org
Simple challenges: unique recipe, easy replication, no expertise required, recipe specifies ingredients & quantity
Complicated challenges: success requires complex formulas; one success increases likelihood of next; high expertise & training required; high degree of certainty about outcome; can separate parts of process
Complex: experiences provides no guarantee of success; expertise helps; every child unique and must be understood as individual; uncertainty about outcome; can’t separate parts from whole
How many people want to engage the general public?
Trick question. THERE IS NO GENERAL PUBLIC
You want ____ to ____:
Bystanders… Listen
Spreaders… Share
Participants… Engage
Evangelists… Sell
Instigators… Create
Meet people in locations where they are, but also find the right messages. Also means finding what people are ready for.
Might be unusual, trusted people in the community. Police, churches, teachers, bartenders