Community Knowledge Clause Samples

Community Knowledge. In order to enhance our outreach efforts, we need to understand how community needs and trends affect SoCaTel services. This information will contribute to the overall success of our outreach strategy. A community assessment process can also provide the baseline rationale for creating new programs and features and eliminating duplication of services and programs. Some of the following information can be useful to obtain more accurate insights into our community: • Demographic data (e.g., age, race, socioeconomic and education level, family structure, and language use) • Length of time the community has been in existence • General history of the community • Key people and leaders in the community • Issues of most concern to the community • Morality and involvement levels • Key allies and rivals A community assessment will be beneficial for our overall outreach efforts as it will involve mapping trends, getting to know key players in the community and collecting information about other services that are available. A community assessment is also essential for understanding community strengths. The formal approach to a community assessment entails reviewing data and statistics as well as potentially running our own survey of the community. While this can be costly, city and country health boards, school boards, and public health agencies often have some of this information publicly available. The informal approach to community assessments focuses on building relationships with other organizations in the community and pooling knowledge and insight. This includes connecting with those public agencies that have data that are publicly available as well as non-governmental organizations that have compiled their own statistics. When a group of organizations pool information on their clients the result is a useful body of data that can guide coordinated programs, funding, and outreach decisions. A balanced mixture of formal and informal assessment plus an ongoing dialogue with community members, will guide us to build our Community Outreach Strategy. While a community assessment usually focuses on identifying gaps in services in the community, another key factor that will contribute to the development of successful outreach strategies for community engagement is to gain an understanding of our target community’s existing resources or assets and employ them to support our outreach efforts. SoCaTel actors can provide a higher value to communities when they are not excl...

Community Knowledge. Council will provide information across a range of media to reach a broad section of the community to allow people to be aware of the community development and recreation opportunities that are available in Gawler. Council will additionally provide information to the community promoting the positive aspects of community gardening as a contributor to health and wellbeing, the educational opportunity it presents and the ways in which it contributes to the development of a sustainable urban environment.