EQUITABLE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & DECISION-MAKING

This training will introduce you to the Community Voice Blueprint, a four-stage process for engaging with historically marginalized communities.

 

This training offers your organization a simple framework for how to equitably make decisions, and engage people of color and other marginalized groups. Using this model, organizations can maximize impact and minimize harm caused to people in historically marginalized communities. 

The training also includes an assessment meeting for us to identify the main barriers clients have when it comes to building equitable community engagement, which helps the VACV team CUSTOMIZE the content for institution-specific needs.

Participants will  - 

    • Learn about the four stages of the Community Voice model of engagement: Listen, Connect, Craft, and Reflect

    • Reflect on their own experiences making decisions about and engaging people in historically marginalized communities

    • Consider the difference between intent vs. impact in our volunteerism, research, investments, or programming

    • Learn strategies for maximizing impact and minimizing harm in decision-making and engagement

    • Shortened Organizational Equity Improvement Process Assessment (OEIP)

      • VACV will provide a short assessment designed to pinpoint your organization’s unique barriers to equitable community engagement. This assessment can help reveal if there is additional internal organizational work that needs to be done, and provide steps to improve equity internally and externally. 

TIME COMMITTMENT - 2 hours

COST - $2,500