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See below for: research findings about outreach with a community.

For the Community, the learning experience:

  • Builds on locally existing skills and resources.
  • Supports a person who takes responsibility for managing or leading the process, and relies on quality group planning and facilitation techniques.
  • Is flexible in response to both process and conditions.
  • Provides participants with feedback about the results of their actions.
  • Generates and makes use of data about the local condition.
  • Takes into consideration the community as a whole, including: socio-political, economic, historical, and cultural influences.
  • Evolves from work with a coalition or group.
  • Builds effectiveness through linkages to other communities, partners, and resources.
  • Takes place close to the location where people practice a behavior of concern.
  • Reaches people in multiple ways.
  • Relates to long-term community vision and goals.
  • Provides training to increase skills needed to accomplish goals identified by the group.

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Dijksterhuis, O. W. (1996) Finding 2

Understand the roots of the environmental management problem and select your target audience based on a specific need. For example, if economic activity is most closely associated with the environmental problem, outreach initiatives should relate to the needs and interests of the target audience engaged in the economic activity Continue reading →

Padgitt, S. C. (1990) Finding 1

When persuading farmers to reduce chemical use:

  • Show that farm chemicals are contaminating groundwater on the individual’s farm
  • Link to quality of drinking water on the individual’s farm
  • Provide alternative methods with a demonstrated outcome that has no adverse affect on profits and no more than a modest decline in yield

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