Engagement Approach
WE UNDERSTAND THE COMMUNITY FIRST
- Conduct Listening Sessions: Before designing outreach, we hold informal discussions with residents, local leaders, and trusted community organizations to understand needs, concerns, and barriers.
- Map Community Assets and Gaps: Identify community hubs, faith-based organizations, local nonprofits, and informal networks that residents already trust.
- Demonstrate Long-Term Commitment: Avoid one-off engagement. Show consistency in presence and follow-through on promises.
- Transparency: Clearly explain your objectives, how information will be used, and how community input will influence decisions.
WE BUILD TRUST THROUGH RELATIONSHIPS
- Partner With Trusted Messengers: Collaborate with local leaders, grassroots organizations, and volunteers who already have credibility within the community.
- Demonstrate Long-Term Commitment: Avoid one-off engagement. Show consistency in presence and follow-through on promises.
- Transparency: Clearly explain your objectives, how information will be used, and how community input will influence decisions.
WE ENGAGE THROUGH PARTICIPATORY APPROACHES
- Co-Design Activities: Let community members shape outreach strategies, program design, and feedback mechanisms.
- Participatory Science and Citizen Data Collection: For example, community members can help monitor air quality or heat conditions, which builds trust and ownership.
- Identify Practical Barriers: Transportation, internet access, or time constraints can prevent participation. Address these proactively.
- Offer Meaningful Incentives: Small stipends, meals, or certificates of participation can encourage engagement without being coercive.
WE COLLECT DATA AND REPORT BACK
- Collect Lived Experience Narratives: We don’t just listen to stories of impact, we collect, categorize and format for data analysis and modeling.
- Track Engagement Metrics: Monitor which populations are being reached and which are not.
- Iterate Strategies: Adjust outreach methods based on what works and what doesn’t.
- Close the Loop: Report back to the community on how their input influenced outcomes. This reinforces trust and accountability.
WE USE RELEVANT COMMUNICATIONS METHODS
- Language and Literacy Considerations: Provide materials in languages spoken in the community and use clear, plain language.
- Multiple Communication Channels: Use flyers, door-to-door visits, community meetings, social media, local radio, and text messages to reach diverse audiences.
- Access to Data Modeling Tools: Ensure all lived-experience narratives are carefully collected, categorized and mapped to geo-location, environmental impact and Social Life Cycle Analysis. (This phase of EHP is currently under development)
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3965 E Cat Balue Drive
Phoenix, AZ
Open Hours
Monday – Friday: 9am – 2pm
Weekends: Closed
Holidays: Closed
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