I need to develop an education program or outreach strategy:
Tree 2 – To increase public awareness or help the community to meet a water goal
Tree 2b: Solving this problem requires broad support for agency or community goals.
Meeting a community goal requires broad resident support for agency or community goals.
[Select any that are applicable to your situation.]
♦ Are residents aware that local or regional planning processes will consider water use or management?
♦ Are stakeholders involved in developing and implementing goals?
♦ Is information about the goals broadly available, using a variety of delivery techniques and media?
♦ Do residents know how they can individually contribute to the goal or how their group can help make a difference?
Residents are aware that local or regional planning processes will consider water use or management.
| Use communication or teaching strategies to increase awareness, to provide information, and to build understanding about agency or community activities. |
| Work with local agencies or groups to provide citizen participation or community involvement skills and opportunities. |
Stakeholders are involved in developing and implementing goals.
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Work with policy makers and policy implementers, using teaching techniques and leadership development principles. Build skills that will enable policy makers to facilitate community engagement and to offer avenues for participation that are competent, fair, and enhance involvement for all groups sharing responsibility for some aspect of this activity. Provide community involvement, citizen participation, civic empowerment and leadership training for the target audience to build understanding for how to be involved. |
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Evaluate community participation and involvement practices. Use teaching techniques to build skills for all groups sharing responsibility for some aspect of this activity. |
Information about the goals is broadly available, using a variety of delivery techniques and media.
| Use social marketing techniques, in collaboration with the target audience, to identify appropriate communication venues and to identify and communicate relevant messages. |
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Use social marketing and other techniques to evaluate effectiveness of communication efforts and public understanding of goals and their implications. Revise and adapt in response to findings. |
Residents know how they can individually contribute to the goal or how their group can help make a difference.
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Use communication or teaching strategies to increase awareness, to provide information, and to build knowledge about agency or community activities. Provide training about citizen participation or community involvement skills and opportunities |
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Evaluate citizen perception of quality, fairness, and effectiveness of community participation and involvement opportunities (citizen participation). Use teaching techniques to build skills among all people who share responsibility for some aspect of this activity (policy makers, supervisors, resource managers and groups). Assist those responsible to revise and adapt communication or training activities in response to findings |
