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Walking Alongside Communities: Building Authentic Community Partnerships

Target Audience

District & School Administrators, Educators

Estimated Duration

45 Minutes

This module is intended as training for K-12 LEA staff, particularly leaders, educators, and family and community engagement staff members, to better engage with community-based organizations and partners.

To define what is meant by community and Community-Based Organizations
To discuss how LEAs might partner with CBOs to do a landscape analysis that focuses on gifts, strengths, and supports that help communities thrive (reference as the landscape analysis)
To discuss how LEAs might partner with CBOs to do resource mapping and leverage community voices
To discuss how LEAs might partner with CBOs to use the needs assessment and resource mapping to build and maintain strong partnerships

Course Content

Foundations

Understanding the Importance of Community

Shifting Mindsets: Moving from Community Engagement to Ownership

Conducting a Landscape Analysis

Understanding Community: Who is in front of you?

Frameworks for Landscape Analysis

Resource Mapping with the Community

Sharing Back with Key Community Partners

LEAs as Conveners of Community Spaces

Building Partnerships and Collaborators

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