Show notes
Sandie Morgan and Dave Stachowiak provide key principles on community engagement. They discuss the need to evaluate and assess what exists in the community and how to develop responsible and sustainable models of community engagement.
Key Points
Key Principles for Community Engagement
Be clear about the purposes or goals of the engagement effort as well as the audience and populations that you engage.
Become knowledgeable of your communities history, economy, political perceptions, etc.
Establish relationships, build trusts, and seek commitments for mobilizing your community.
Remember and accept community self-determination.
Partnering with the community is necessary to create change.
Recognize and respect community diversity.
Identify and mobilize community assets and developing resources.
Community engagement means community ownership.
Community collaboration requires long term commitment by the engaging organization and its partners.
Resources
Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons | U.S. Department of State
Principles of Community Engagement | Centers for Disease Control
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Transcript
Dave [00:00:00] You're listening to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast. This is episode number 20, recorded January 2012. Welcome to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast. My name is Dave Stachowiak.
Sandie [00:00:27] And I'm Sandie Morgan.
Dave [00:00:29] And this is the show where we empower you to study the issues, be a voice, and make a difference in ending human trafficking. And this is our 20th episode, Sandie, so we are back for more conversation today about how we can start to end human trafficking by studying the issues, being a voice, and making a difference. And we're coming to you from the Global Center for Women and Justice here at Vanguard University in Southern California, where in January, it's about 80 degrees right now. So sorry for those of you in warmer parts of the world, but we're certainly glad to be here and glad to be back talking with you today.
Sandie [00:01:07] Absolutely. And we have a new direct dial phone number.
Dave [00:01:12] We do.
Sandie [00:01:13] Yeah.
Dave [00:01:14] For audio feedback. It used to be you had to call a phone number and then call an extension. But now you can actually call a direct number to us. And that way you can either talk with us directly or if we're not there, you can leave a message and we will respond to you on the podcast. And that number is 714-966-6361. Or, of course, you can always e-mail the center directly at [email protected]. And that stands for the Global Center for Women of Justice, which the podcast is produced out of. And Sandie, today we are going to be talking about the importance of community engagement and the ways to do community engagement the right way. But before we even do that, we need to talk about the conference that's going to help all of us to continue this, to study these issues. And I'm excited because we're just a few weeks away.
Sandie [00:02:07] I'm really excited because our conference focus is on community engagement, on the difficult issue of commercial sexual exploitation of children. The Ensure Justice 2012 focus is standing together to end the exploitation of girls and bringing the resources to you to be able to engage in best practice models and efficient, effective ways of engagement is really important. We hosted at a summit, a human trafficking summit at Vanguard on exploited minors, and we had law enforcement, juvenile court representatives, judges. And one of the specific gaps that they identified in that two-day summit was the need for more community engagement. Well, it's a really nice, Dave,