Welcome to: Engaging with Underrepresented Communities

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Welcome to Engaging with Underrepresented
Communities

• Kim Fitzgerald

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Key questions for effective engagement

• Why engage?
• Who with?
• When?
• How?
• Where?

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Why engage?
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Who with?
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When?
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Where?
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How?
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Summary

• Clearly define why you want to engage
• Consult with groups largely absent
• Recruit volunteers from underrepresented
  communities, champion your organisation
• Aim to build long term sustainable relationships
• Seek out and use appropriate information points
• Pay for services
• Ensure your project and all partners gain
  something from the process
• Avoid top down approaches

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Summary /cont

• Workshops in schools run by volunteers
• Outlets for recruiting volunteers
• Create diverse steering group
• Information points
• Utilise community information points
• Umbrella groups and Community newsletters
• Mainstream diversity