Community Context
Learn how to honor a community’s past and present.
Learning objectives
- Understand how to honor community context in your engagement.
- Understand how to honor community culture in your engagement.
Guidance
“Recognize that one or two organizations don’t fully capture or represent a community. The City should connect with multiple, different parts of the community, because there are many different cultures and people from vastly different countries, [even when they] speak one language. […] For example, Spanish-speaking communities in Northeast represent very different groups than in South. […] Working with an organization in North and not with one in South leaves out many […] perspectives.”
“One of the first things [my team does] is essentially know the history of the neighborhood. They do research, and that also forces them to talk to people, so they know the history and what changes are occurring. When a conflict does occur, they understand why it’s occurring.”