C.S.C

• Community Engagement is working collaboratively with groups of people affiliated by geographic proximity, special interest, or similar situations to address issues affecting their well-being
• Principles of Community Engagement:

  • Fairness
  • Justice
  • Empowerment
  • Participation
  • Self-determination
• Goals of Community Engagement:

  • Build trust
  • Create better communication
  • Enlist new resources and allies
• Benefits of Community Engagement:

  • Strengthened communities and cohesion
  • Strengthened accountability of partners and coalition
  • Improved service delivery, efficiency, and effectiveness
  • Improved health and social outcomes
• Community Engagement continues by increasing the level of trust, community involvement, communication, and impact through outreach, consultation, involvement, collaboration, and shared leadership
• Solidarity is unity based on unities of interests, objectives, standards, and sympathies
• Emile Durkheim correlated types of social solidarity with types of society
• Peter Kropotkin emphasized the connection between biological and social aspects
• Socrates & Aristotle viewed solidarity as part of a virtue ethics framework for living a good life
• Citizenship denotes membership in a political society with duties of allegiance and protection
• A Citizen is a person with citizenship
• An Alien is a citizen of a country residing in or passing through another country
• General ways of acquiring citizenship:

  • Involuntary by birth
  • Voluntary by naturalization
• Citizens by birth can acquire citizenship through Jus Sanguinis (blood relationship) or Jus Soli (place of birth)
• Naturalization is formally adopting a foreigner into the state's political body
• Dual Citizenship refers to possessing two citizenships
• Communities are social units composed of people who share something in common
• Communities may be geographical or non-geographical
• Communities can be divided into micro-level and macro-level groups
• Communities play diverse roles regardless of type, including community consultation, joint planning, joint design, joint delivery, and implementation of community-led activities
• Community Action aims to increase understanding, engagement, and empowerment of communities for providing services
• Objectives in Community Action:

  • Building community and social capacity
  • Prevention
  • Community resiliency
  • Maintaining and creating wealth