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Seeking Community Engagement. Nicole Merrifield, Grande Yellowhead Regional Division No.35. Case Study. Engaging a Community: Seeking Effective Means of Providing Information of Broad Public Interest to External Stakeholders A Case Study of the Hinton Drug Action Committee. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Communications Carousel’: ASBA Spring General Meeting June 5-6, 2006
Seeking Community Engagement
Nicole Merrifield, Grande Yellowhead Regional Division No.35
Case StudyCase Study
Engaging a Community:
Seeking Effective Means of Providing Information of Broad Public Interest to
External Stakeholders
A Case Study of theHinton Drug Action Committee
quite a mouthful!
Theoretical ContextTheoretical Context
Diffusion of Innovations, Diffusion of Innovations, Everett RogersEverett Rogers
• Rogers dubs this process the diffusion of innovations: “diffusion is the process by which an innovation is communicated through certain channels over time among the members of a social system”
• The theory suggests that the challenge of public education and awareness campaigns is to reduce the time between the discovery or development of an idea and the adoption of that new information by a community
• Diffusion theory was developed by studying a number of different information campaigns involving a wide variety of messages, audiences and social contexts, and extracting common elements
• Information “consists of data organized into meaningful relationships and structures. It is data that has been given meaning through relational connection” (Wright)
Creating KnowledgeCreating Knowledge
• Engagement refers to the process and result of the creation of knowledge, where that knowledge would lead someone to act
•Knowledge is information that has been made meaningful to individuals through a process of reflection and relation to their world view and experiences
• Soliciting input• Completing a survey• Lobbying the government• Encouraging registration or self identification
Examples from School DivisionsExamples from School Divisions
ExtrapolatingExtrapolating
• Be aware of a particular program or issue
• Understand the potential or actual impact
• Recognize their role, or potential for involvement
• Choose to act
Requires Stakeholders to:Requires Stakeholders to:
ExtrapolatingExtrapolating
HDAC’s ChallengesHDAC’s Challenges
• Desired to realize change quickly
• Limited financial resources
• Limited means of providing information
sound familiar?
HDAC’s ChallengesHDAC’s Challenges
• The creation of knowledge is a personal, individual exercise and experience, and therefore can be encouraged, but not compelled
Efficiency requires the message to be shared with many individuals at the same time so that a group of individuals accept the information, create knowledge, and become engaged
Lessons from HDACLessons from HDAC
• Communications should recognize that a community is a group of individuals bound by a shared experience, and therefore should target individuals within that group
• No single template can be developed to guarantee community engagement
Key PrinciplesKey Principles
Know the target stakeholders• Identify• Respect• Focus Message
Key PrinciplesKey Principles
Create and maintain a positive experience• Involvement• Encourage personal commitment• Develop trust and personal relationships
Key PrinciplesKey Principles
Develop Clear Goals and Objectives • Short and long term• Broad and tangible• Subjective and objective
Provide individuals with the sensethat their involvement is worthwhile
Key PrinciplesKey Principles
Operate with Professionalism• Organization and planning• Leadership• Visual Identifiers
Professionalism:• Increases efficiency
• Increases support• Encourages participants to focus on the issue
Key PrinciplesKey Principles
Strive for Consistency and Frequency• Range of opportunities to become informed
and engaged • Range of means of becoming involved
Effective CommunicationEffective Communication
The concepts employed by effective individual communicators must be applied to community awareness campaigns:
• Design message to suit the receiver
• Encourage and prepare for feedback
• Provide opportunities to personalize the information to create knowledge
• Provide opportunities to use knowledge to complete engagement process
Communications must be
carefully planned to be effective
Meth Hurts Website: http://www.methhurts.com/index.html
Rogers, Everett. (1983) Diffusion of Innovations. 4th ed. New York: Free Press.
Wright, Kirby. (2005) “Exploring the Complexities of Knowledge”. Custom Courseware: Master of Arts in Communications and Technology, Extension 507 Teaching Notes. University of Alberta Students’ Union.